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IN DEVELOPMENT SHINBAKU NEW ANATOMIES is an innovatory series of books which will illuminate and document contemporary Japanese art, together with its crossmedia forms and its multiple historical sources, will provide a comprehensive art-historical context for the understanding of the complexities and contradictions of Japanese art within its social and cultural context, and also allow readers to interconnect the preoccupations of Japanese contemporary art with the wider international context of developments in visual arts and digital media, together with their impact on the dynamics of social transformation and of cultural dilemmas which are at stake, in their most intensive form, in the subject-matters of the series. The books will be written by leading art-historians and cultural theorists, evenly divided between US/European authors and Japanese authors. The cohering theme of the series will be on the multi-faceted preoccupation with the corporeal, often in a state of unprecedented upheaval or fragmentation, and the instigation in Japan of new imageries of the human figure; the series draws upon and develops a distinctive range of art-historical work. |
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