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" Portraits of the Sun: "
Kunimoto, Thalia Namiko
Levine, Gregory P
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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915436
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Kunimoto, Thalia Namiko
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Portraits of the Sun:\ Kunimoto, Thalia NamikoLevine, Gregory P
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UC Berkeley
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2010
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2010
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The Gutai Art Association, or more simply Gutai, meaning "concreteness" or "embodiment," was formed in 1954 in Osaka. Emerging at the close of the American Occupation, this intensely productive group took up an array of practices, including painting, performance, mixed-media installation, and calligraphy. This dissertation attempts to move away from the over-reliance on the Gutai Manifesto and the persistent view that Gutai was a collective of homologous interests. In response to this highly generalized approach, this dissertation focuses specifically on two key Gutai members, Tanaka Atsuko (1932-2005) and Shiraga Kazuo (1924-2008), to explore the larger stakes of the modern Japanese subject in the postwar period. Their works, often filled with crimson reds, radiating circular forms, and aggressive acts of exhibitionism, resonate with issues of nationhood and representation portrayed through a language of visual violence and gendered spectacle. An adequate account of the politically fraught, gendered stakes of Gutai art has yet to be produced, and I hope that my work will begin to uncover the intensely important, yet somewhat ambiguous questions of gender, representation, and nationhood that, as I see it, Tanaka and Shiraga insistently posed and demanded to be witnessed.
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Levine, Gregory P
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UC Berkeley
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