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Nakanishi Natsuyuki and the Global History of Postwar and Contemporary Sculpture: Accounting for Assemblage

By (author) Dan Adler

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The first book-length study of Nakanishi Natsuyukiâ€™s sculptural practice, this volume explores his assemblages in dialogue with the postwar history of sculpture as a global phenomenon in the 1960s and beyond. Nakanishiâ€™s series of Compact Objects (produced from 1962 to 1968) allow for a reconsideration of the role of assemblage within cultural tendencies of the postwar and contemporary periods, both within and without Japan. This role forefronts the concepts of intimacy and interactivityâ€”as well as ritual and processâ€”within the context of sculptural experience. Nakanishiâ€™s critique of consumerism and conformity within these worksâ€”along with his experimentation with new plastic technologiesâ€”allows for a comparative treatment that includes a variety of movements and tendencies in Japan, Europe, and the US, including Minimalism, Fluxus, Neo-Dada, and Nouveau rÃ©alisme, among others. The final portions of the book offer a wider and global context of postwar and contemporary tendencies toward assemblage, including an in-depth study of a multisensory exhibition by Yuko Mohri, held at the Venice Biennale in 2024. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, and Japanese studies.

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