"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...

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Published in:	October no. 163; pp. 103 - 131
Main Author:	BRAXTON, MYCAH
Format:	Article
Published:	MIT Press Winter2018
Subjects:	Kawara, On, 1933-2014 Drawing Art & society Japanese art Korean War, 1950-1953 Socialist realism Communism & art Social criticism in art Japanese social conditions
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