Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Gendered Bodies and the Minamata Disaster
1. Katsura Yuki’s Bodies of Resistance
2. Nakamura Hiroshi and the Politics of Embodiment
3. Tanaka Atsuko and the Circuits of Subjectivity
4. Heroic Violence in the Art of Shiraga Kazuo
Conclusion: Thresholds of Exposure
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Namiko Kunimoto is assistant professor of art history at The Ohio State University.
"Kunimoto’s manuscript is exactly what the field of Japanese
postwar art needs at this time."-Alicia Volk
"Eschewing group-centric approaches, The Stakes of Exposure focuses
on four artists whose aesthetic politics figure postwar bodies in
struggle, vulnerability, desire, and connection. Namiko Kunimoto's
analysis navigates between history, historical art literature, and
theoretical touchstones through her lucid readings."-William
Marotti, UCLA "A significant contribution to Japanese art and
scholarship published in English."-CHOICE"Kunimoto’s attention to
how the gendered body resonated with gendered narratives about
society and the nation is an important contribution. Kunimoto
offers close readings of the works of Hiroshi Nakamura, Yuki
Katsura, Atsuko Tanaka and Kazuo Shiraga to illuminate the
responses to shifting ideas about political subjectivity in postwar
Japan."-The Japan Times"Kunimoto strategically situates her study
between the disciplines of history and art history, opening new
lines of inquiry into postwar Japan and, at the same time,
challenging many of the underlying assumptions that have informed
political and art histories of this period."-Pacific Historical
Review"The Stakes of Exposure: Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese
Art, by art historian Namiko Kunimoto, provides monographic essays
on four artists active from the 1930s to the 1970s-Yuki Katsura,
Hiroshi Nakamura, Atsuko Tanaka and Kazuo Shiraga-and describes a
postwar period of national anxiety that produced new conceptions of
‘gender and nationhood.’"-Art Asia Pacific
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