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This essay considers the theory and practice of avant-garde manga in Japan in the 1960s and early... more This essay considers the theory and practice of avant-garde manga in Japan in the 1960s and early ’70s, focusing on the work of Sasaki Maki and Hayashi Seiichi in the alt-manga magazine Garo and on the writings of Ishiko Junzō, Nakahara Yūsuke, and Nakamura Hiroshi, with a view to related theories in contemporary Japanese art and experimental film, particularly “anti-art” and “image theory.”
The article reviews several photography exhibitions marking anniversary of the Great East Japan E... more The article reviews several photography exhibitions marking anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake which occurred on March 11, 2011 including one at the Meguro Museum of Art and other exhibitions at the Art Tower Mito museum featuring artists Hatakeyama Naoya, Tanaka Koki and Seo Natsumi.
Rethinking Marxism vol 21 no 1, 2009
Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Vol. 5: Outwits the Phantom Blot (Fantagraphics), 2014
Women's Manga in Asia and Beyond, 2019
Afterimage 45:6, 2019
Review of exhibition at Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film (July-August 2018)
The Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, a scientific research facility in Mumbai, houses a r... more The Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, a scientific research facility in Mumbai, houses a remarkable collection of postwar Indian art assembled by Homi J. Bhabha, the country's top nuclear power guru.
Book review of Li Kunwu's graphic novel, A Chinese Life (2012)
THE FIF TH ANNIVERSARY of the Great East Japan Earthquake, on March 11, and the subsequent tsunam... more THE FIF TH ANNIVERSARY of the Great East Japan Earthquake, on March 11, and the subsequent tsunami and Fukushima nuclear meltdown has come and gone as I write this. It was a full-time job running around Tokyo and its environs to catch the many exhibitions, film screenings, and talks held in commemoration. There's a spate of new books on related topics. The titles that catch my eye deal with "nuclear refugees" and increased rates of thyroid cancer among children. Sober anger over government and corporate negligence smolders in print. The mood in museums was far more subdued.
October
This essay considers the theory and practice of avant-garde manga in Japan in the 1960s and early... more This essay considers the theory and practice of avant-garde manga in Japan in the 1960s and early ’70s, focusing on the work of Sasaki Maki and Hayashi Seiichi in the alt-manga magazine Garo and on the writings of Ishiko Junzō, Nakahara Yūsuke, and Nakamura Hiroshi, with a view to related theories in contemporary Japanese art and experimental film, particularly “anti-art” and “image theory.”
The article reviews several photography exhibitions marking anniversary of the Great East Japan E... more The article reviews several photography exhibitions marking anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake which occurred on March 11, 2011 including one at the Meguro Museum of Art and other exhibitions at the Art Tower Mito museum featuring artists Hatakeyama Naoya, Tanaka Koki and Seo Natsumi.
Rethinking Marxism vol 21 no 1, 2009
Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Vol. 5: Outwits the Phantom Blot (Fantagraphics), 2014
Women's Manga in Asia and Beyond, 2019
Afterimage 45:6, 2019
Review of exhibition at Taka Ishii Gallery Photography / Film (July-August 2018)
The Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, a scientific research facility in Mumbai, houses a r... more The Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, a scientific research facility in Mumbai, houses a remarkable collection of postwar Indian art assembled by Homi J. Bhabha, the country's top nuclear power guru.
Book review of Li Kunwu's graphic novel, A Chinese Life (2012)
THE FIF TH ANNIVERSARY of the Great East Japan Earthquake, on March 11, and the subsequent tsunam... more THE FIF TH ANNIVERSARY of the Great East Japan Earthquake, on March 11, and the subsequent tsunami and Fukushima nuclear meltdown has come and gone as I write this. It was a full-time job running around Tokyo and its environs to catch the many exhibitions, film screenings, and talks held in commemoration. There's a spate of new books on related topics. The titles that catch my eye deal with "nuclear refugees" and increased rates of thyroid cancer among children. Sober anger over government and corporate negligence smolders in print. The mood in museums was far more subdued.