Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One: Arts of Engagement and the Democratic Culture of the Early Postwar
6. Chapter 1. Participatory Culture and Democratic Culture 21
7. Chapter 2. Art and Engagement 33
8. Part Two: Avant-Garde Documentary Reportage Art of the 1950s
9. Chapter 3. The Tales of The Tale of Akebono Village 55
10. Chapter 4. The Social Work of Documentary and Reportage Art as Movement 63
11. Chapter 5. Avant-Garde Realism 88
12. Chapter 6. Katsuragawa Hiroshi, Ikeda Tatsuo, and Nakamura Hiroshi 99
13. Part Three. Opening Open Doors: Sobi and Hani Susumu
14. Chapter 7. Touching Down at the Sobi Seminar 129
15. Chapter 8. Sobi as Organization and Movement 135
16. Chapter 9. Sobi’s Philosophy and Pedagogy 147
17. Chapter 10. Hani Susumu and the Creativity of the Camera 165
18. Part Four: Kyushu-ha Tartare Anti-Art between Raw and Haute
19. Chapter 11. The Grand Meeting of Heroes 191
20. Chapter 12. Kyushu-ha: Between Three Worlds 198
21. Chapter 13. Kyushu-ha’s Art 220
22. Chapter 14. A Cruel Story of Anti-Art 245
23. Epilogue: Hope in the Past and the Future 256
24. Notes 269
25. Bibliography 301
26. Index 317