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Genpei Akasegawa


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Genpei Akasegawa (Japanese: 赤瀬川原平) is a rare phenomenon, an artist who successfully transitioned from the avant-garde to the larger realm of popular culture. He emerged on the Japanese art scene around 1960, starting in the radical “Anti-Art” movement and becoming a member of the seminal artist collectives Neo Dada and Hi Red Center. The epic piece Model 1,000-Yen Note Incident (1963-1974), which involved a real-life police investigation and trial, cemented his place as an inspired conceptualist. His irreverent humor and cunning observation of everyday life made him popular as a writer, peaking with his 1998 book Rõjinryoku, in which he put forth a hilariously positive take on the declining capabilities of the elderly. Hyperart: Thomasson, ...more

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Hyperart: Thomasson

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路上觀察學入門

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I Guess All We Have Is Free...

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新解さんの謎 [Shinkaisan No Nazo]

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老人力 全一冊

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芸術原論 [Geijutsu Genron]

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四角形の歴史

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赤瀬川原平漫画大全

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外骨という人がいた! : 学術小說 [Gaikotsu...

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異次元が漏れる―偶然論講義 (1983年) (Lect...

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