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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description:
Decentering originality -- Originality and transnational modernism in the Taishō era: Yoshihara's formative years -- Gutai strategies of originality -- Originality, individualism, and subjective autonomy -- The interpoetics of distance -- Translation: decentering Jackson Pollock -- Recontextualization: Nengajō and Gutai mail art -- Quantization: Gutai portables -- Lines of flight: the Gutai journal -- Yoshihara's postwar internationalism and the Gutai journal -- American correspondences -- European correspondences -- The politics of geography and Gutai exhibitions -- Tokyo/Ashiya/Osaka, 1955-1958 -- New York, 1958 -- Turin, 1959 -- International contemporaneity and Gutai exhibitions -- Osaka, 1962 -- Amsterdam, 1965 -- Paris, 1965 -- New directions in Gutai exhibitions -- 15th Gutai art exhibition, 1965 -- Gutai art for the space age, 1967 -- Expo '70 -- Conclusion: Gutai's decentering legacies