Perceiving Politics: Art, Protest, and Everyday Life in early 1960s Japan

A talk by Dr. William Marotti, Asociate professor of History, University of Califiornia, Los Angeles

Marotti explores politics, events, and timeliness in 1960s Japan by examining the advent of a critical art of the everyday and its links to political action. Out of sync with eventful mass activism, artists sought to create eventfulness against a state-promoted, depoliticizing daily life during Japan’s high growth years. Their art practices and discourses elaborated a remarkable, and untimely, concept of action and politics that focused upon the quotidian world as the space for political contestation and revolution—and were quickly met by the state, acting in defense of this daily life.

Friday, November 21, 2014 at 3:30pm to 5:00pm

Will C. Hogg Building (WCH), 4.118
120 INNER CAMPUS DR, Austin, Texas 78712

Event Type

Academics, Arts & Humanities, Policy & Law, World & Culture

Departments

College of Liberal Arts

Target Audience

Students, Staff, Faculty, Alumni, Families, General Public

Website

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/centers/ea...

Cost

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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