TY - BOOK AU - Sas,Miryam TI - Experimental arts in postwar Japan: moments of encounter, engagement, and imagined return T2 - Harvard East Asian monographs SN - 9780674053403 : AV - NX584.A1 S26 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Harvard University Asia Center, Distributed by Harvard University Press KW - Arts, Japanese KW - 20th century KW - Avant-garde (Aesthetics) KW - Japan N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-266) and index; Introduction: death acts (survival acts) -- Post-Shingeki's edge. No holds barred: Betsuyaku Minoru and the paradoxes of total commitment -- Terayama Shuji: gender, power, and the imperative voice -- Blindness and the visuality of desire -- Intersubjective spaces, communal dreams -- Theories of encounter. Theories of encounter: breaking the everyday -- Imaginations of return: film, Buto, photography. Marks the spot: experimental film crossings -- On homecoming: Hijikata's writings and Buto -- Provoke era: new languages of Japanese photography -- Conclusion: counterfeit coins, phantasms ER -