Anti-Action: Artist-Women’s Challenges and Responses in Postwar Japan

For this meetup, we will check out an exhibition that features works by female avant-garde artists from the postwar period in Japan.

"This exhibition is an attempt to reinterpret modern and contemporary Japanese art history from the perspective disclosed by Nakajima Izumi in her 2019 book Anti-action: Post-war Japanese Art and Women Artists. Based on the perspective of “anti-action,” which aims to review art history from the viewpoint of gender studies, this project will focus on the activities of Kusama Yayoi, Tanaka Atsuko, and Fukushima Hideko, who are featured in the book, as well as other artists who until now have rarely been discussed as subjects of art history. This exhibition will introduce the results of current art historical research and provide new perspectives on the act of evaluating works of art." [from the museum site]

Location
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
(https://www.momat.go.jp/en/access)

Exhibition to see
Anti-Action: Artist-Women’s Challenges and Responses in Postwar Japan

Meeting Time
04:00 PM (16:00)

Meeting Spot
Around the ticket booth for the museum

Admission Fee
¥2,000

Description of the exhibition
https://www.momat.go.jp/en/exhibitions/566

Chat session after the show
As usual, let's have a chat session at the end of the event. When we meet up before the exhibition, let's decide where we go after the show.