... spirit of individualism that redefined community as a horizontal and creative collective necessary to the development of the individual. Tiampo ❘ Gutai Chain 385 Figure 1  Shiraga Kazuo...

... that prominently put the body to the fore are Shiraga Kazuo’s Challenging Mud (1955) and Tanaka Atsuko’s Electric Dress (1956). Aside from these examples and other similar experiments by Tanaka and Shiraga, Gutai’s public demonstrations must...

...- nizers) member Ushio Shinohara’s (b. 1932) chronicle of his exploits in 1966 and Shiraga Kazuo’s (b. 1924) tales of his group Gutai in 1967.51 Indeed, Tomii Some Discursive Practices in Gendai Bijutsu in Japan 627 the veterans of the 1960s have been...

...- ing in dantai salons. To just name a few, Masanobu Masatoshi at Kokuga; Shimamoto Shz at Modern Art Association (Modan A¯ to Kykai); and Kanayama Akira, Shiraga Kazuo, and Murakami Saburo at Shin Seisaku (New Production) Association, where...