Postwar Avant-garde Art
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Postwar Avant-garde Art
Architecture of Tange Kenzô and Isozaki Arata
Okamoto Taro 1911-1996Mori no okite (Law of the Jungle) 1950
Okamoto Taro Kinenkan
Oil On Canvas 181.5 × 259.5 cm.
Okamoto Taro, Tower of the Sun (Osaka Expo, 1970)
Source
Tange KenzôOlympic Stadium 1964
c. Hugh Lester, Tulane University of Louisiana
Tange
• Japanese government buildings
• 1955-58 Kagawa Prefectural Offices
Tange’s Tokyo Plan, 1960
• Visions of “Neo-
Tokyo?”
Tange Tsukiji plan, 1960-64 unrealized
Tange Kenzô Tokyo Metropolitan Government Offices (Shinjuku 1991)
• “The exterior adopts the silhouette of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, and the circular plaza connecting separate properties is reminiscent of Italian cities. This is unquestionably the summit of Japanese post-modernism.” Tokyo Architecture Guide Magazine
Isozaki Arata
• Future Tokyo plans--Neo-Tokyo?
• Igarashi Taro photo archives of Isozaki
Morita Shiryû
Photo: Japan Art Galarie Frankfurt
Isamu Noguchiwith Shirley Yamaguchi, early 1950s
Noguchi and Tange’s Peace Park
Source: Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum
Yanagi Yukinori
• The World Flag Ant Farm 1990. • Ant, colored sand, plastic box, plastic tube, plastic pipe and video
documentation on LCD monitor, each plastic box 24X30 cm (total 170). Collection: Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Japan. Photo: Norihiro Ueno