Survival boogie woogie : neo-Japonisme architectural photography & abstraction 1945-1985

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Survival boogie woogie : neo-Japonisme architectural photography & abstraction 1945-1985

Jean-Sébastien Cluzel ; translated from the French by John Adamson

Nouvelles éditions Scala , Brill, [2024] , , c2024

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Survival boogie woogie : néo-japonisme, photographie d'architecture et abstraction, 1945-1985

Survival boogie woogie : neo-Japonisme, architectural photography and abstraction, 1945-1985

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"This book came about through an invitation from Sophie Basch. Its preparation began as part of a colloquium project entitled 'Le néo-japonisme, 1945-1975', organized by Sophie Basch and Michael Lucken, held on 12 and 13 May 2022 at the Collège de France and hosted by William Marx and Jean-Noël Robert"--Acknowledgements (pages [2])

"What links are there between Piet Mondrian's unfinished work Victory Boogie Woogie (1942-4) and post-war Japanese and Japanese-style architectural photography? ... This book, which takes a sidelong look at Mondrian, examines the works of the foremost among Japanese and American architectural photographers to interpret the dynamics of how the world of architecture was Japanized between 1945 and 1985"--Back cover

Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-125) and index

Contents of Works

  • Neo-Japonisme and architectural photography
  • Writing the history of neo-Japonisme in architecture from 1936 to 1985 from Nikolaus Pevsner to Reyner Banham
  • By way of background: how the techniques of architectural drawing and photography developed
  • Japan boogie woogie : W. Blaser, N. Carver, Y. Ishimoto, Y. Watanabe, T. Satō, Y. Futagawa
  • Neo-Japonisme in Hollywood? : Richard Neutra and Julius Shulman
  • Photographs in neo-Japanese style since 1955 from Julis Shulman to Futagawa Yuriko
  • "The sky line - Status quo" : The New Yorker, 11 October 1947 / Lewis Mumford ; notes by J.-S. Cluzel

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