Otaku consumption, superflat art and the return to Edo

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6195119
AutoresM Steinberg (0000-0002-6560-2980, autor de correspondencia)
Año2004
Volumen16
Número3
Páginas449-471
Fecha de publicación2004-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJapan Forum (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0955-5803 • E-ISSN: 1469-932X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0955580042000257927
OpenAlexW2078643112
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas4

This paper addresses the use of Edo as a trope for Japanese postmodernity in the 1980s and 1990s and its transformation at the turn of the millenium in order to better situate Japanese visual artist and theorist Murakami Takashi's 2000–1 exhibition,'Superflat'. Is Murakami's'Superflat'–which links contemporaryanimeandanime-influenced art to the works of Edo-period artists Kano Sansetsu and Katsushika Hokusai–merely another expression of the Edo boom of the 1980s and 1990s?Or does it present a different use of Edo from that which came before?In order to address this question, this article looks at the works ofŌtsuka Eiji,Ōkada Toshio and Karatani Kōjin, a group of writers to whose works theorist Azuma Hiroki links Murakami's genealogical endeavors, and takes up Azuma's critique of these writers and Murakami himself. Finally, turning to Nara Yoshitomo's and Murakami's works themselves, seen through the lens of Azuma's arguments in his recentThe Animalizing Postmodern, this article argues that their art–and in turn the Superflat itself–is guided by a logic of compositing that is far more informed by contemporary modes of digital imaging than by the mode of appropriation and quasi-historization that characterized the use of Edo in Japan's postmodern 1980s and 1990s

Aesthetics · Appropriation · Art · Art history · Consumption (sociology) · Epistemology · Exhibition · Literature · Mode (computer interface) · Order (exchange) · Period (music) · Postmodernism · Postmodernity · Sociology · Trope (literature) · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Cinema and Media Studies · History · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy

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