Imagination Without Borders: Feminist Artist Tomiyama Taeko and Social Responsibility

Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies #69

by Laura Hein (Editor), Rebecca Jennison (Editor)

Tomiyama Taeko, a Japanese visual artist born in 1921, is changing the way World War II is remembered in Japan, Asia, and the world. Her work deals with complicated moral and emotional issues of empire and war responsibility that cannot be summed up in simple slogans, which makes it compelling for more than just its considerable beauty. Since Japan was imperialist but not Western, attention to her work also disaggregates issues that are usually bundled together, creating opportunities for both comparative and transnational analysis. Her work, discussed here and at the accompanying website also helps us identify the strategies that individuals use to gain critical distance from their own societies and governments and to find effective ways of expressing dissent.

172 pages, Paperback

Published January 8, 2010

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709.2 T657i 2010