"A Weapon to Change Modern Reality": Action and Agitation in On Kawara's Thanatophanies, 1955-1956.
The article offers information on conceptual artist On Kawara and his drawing series "Thanatophanies." Topics discussed include the focus of his drawings on the need for art to engage with exploitative and uneven socioeconomic conditions in postwar Japan, the complicity of the Japanese people in the...
| Publicado en: | October no. 163; pp. 103 - 131 |
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