Noi Sawaragi, War and the Expo, Paperback.

Noi Sawaragi, War and World's Fairs, Paperback.

By Noi Sawaragi

This book is an art criticism that discusses the relationship between Japanese expositions and art/architecture from before the war to the post-war period.
War continues, and world's fairs are repeated... This is a time-traveling, long-form art criticism that traces the origins of "environment" within the endless chain of dreams of "future" by urban planners, architects, and avant-garde artists, connecting the planned 2600th Anniversary Exposition before the war and the 1970 Osaka Expo '70.

In 1970, alongside the "moon rock" of Apollo 11 exhibited at the American Pavilion of the Osaka Expo '70 and the "stoning" by student activists that filled the newspapers every day, a "stone artwork" placed on the floor of the museum was about to revolutionize the Japanese art world.
Linking the works of Taro Okamoto, Kenzo Tange, Takashi Asada, Shuzo Takiguchi and the Experimental Workshop, Metabolism, Kiyoshi Awazu, Arata Isozaki, Hi-Red Center, Junzo Ishiko, Lee Ufan, Dadakan (Kanji Itoi), Katsushige Nakahashi, and Kenji Yanobe from a unique perspective, this book now highlights another war art = the era of "World's Fair Art" that runs through the pre-war, wartime, and post-war periods of Showa history.

The cover has some scratches and folds, but the text inside is in good condition without any writing or folds.

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Specifications:
・Hardcover: 349 pages
・Publisher: Bijutsu Shuppan-sha
・Language: Japanese
・Release date: 2005/1
・ISBN-10: 4568201748
・ISBN-13: 978-4568201741
・Size: h194 x w140 mm