Before and After Superflat: A Short History of Japanese Contemporary Art 1990-2011

Adrian Favell (1)

1 CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (Sciences Po, CNRS)

Any discussion of Japanese contemporary artinevitably leads to Takashi Murakami, YoshitomoNara and the other artists of the Superflat movement.But Japan as a whole has changed dramaticallysince the collapse of its “bubble” economy.Before and After Superflat offers the first comprehensivehistory in English of the Japanese artworld from 1990 up to the tsunami of March 2011.

Domaines: Art et histoire de l'art; Architecture, aménagement de l'espace

Adrian Favell. Before and After Superflat: A Short History of Japanese Contemporary Art 1990-2011. Blue Kingfisher, pp.246, 2012, 9789881506412. ⟨hal-03417515⟩