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路上観察学入門

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いま、街が面白い!路上から観察できる森羅万象を対象とした〈路上観察学〉の旗の下に、都市のフィールド・ワーカーたちが結集した。それぞれ、独特の眼玉を駆使して、街の隠された表情をいきいきととらえる方法をここに披露する。街歩きが好きな人には、欠かせないマニュアル。

316 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1986

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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, marks a crucial turning point in his metamorphosis from a subversive culture to a popular culturatus.

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February 28, 2024
三位來自不同領域的日本藝術家齊聚一堂,討論各種如名偵探般的觀察方法,一般人眼中平凡無奇的街巷樓房在他們的世界裡成為一道又一道的解謎遊戲。小自巴黎的狗都在哪間店前面大便,大至發掘都市人們無意間製造出的前衛藝術,全都是讓他們發揮研究精神與揮灑想像力的對象。

全書收錄了兩種類型的文類,第一種是幾位藝術家之間的對話紀錄,他們在輕鬆而漫無目的的閒談中談論各自如何開發出路上觀察這個嗜好、從事路上觀察時遭遇的趣事、以及他們所推薦的隨身小工具與記錄方法。第二種文類則是他們的「研究筆記」,圖文並用地介紹他們在都市中所見的新奇小事,在這個篇章裡也可以看見不同藝術家的性格與著眼點差異:有人喜歡像百科圖鑑般全然理性地分門別類,有人喜歡以更主觀的評鑑賞析去描述眼前的現象。

閱讀這本書的樂趣在於一種跨越地理與語言隔閡的共鳴,不管是生活在什麼地方,大家一定都曾有過讓自己深受感動、在聊天時提起卻又顯得有些瑣碎的發現。透過這三位作者的示範,讀者見習到了將這些事物行之於文與圖的方式,路上觀察的樂趣也隨著越來越多人的加入而更加豐富。
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August 16, 2024
雖然書中介紹的路上觀察學頗為有趣,但每當讀到對談的部份,就真的是幾位藝術家 / 學者閒聊吹水。好處是真的很輕鬆、容易入口;壞處是會扯到很多不必要的冗談笑話、亦帶上部份可以更謹慎核實的錯誤資訊 / 斷言。

路上觀察的拒絕「意圖」、脈絡,故然有反對消費、反對社會秩序的宰制(很日本的出發點)的部份,但這些觀察往往也可以有超出純粹「有趣」的可能性、觀乎幾位藝術家在各自領域的產出可見一斑,更令人想知道對於意圖和秩序的拿捏拉扯是否可以分享更多思考和經驗。
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