Storm of Progress
The Politics and Literature Debate and the Art of Nakamura Hiroshi
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12810879 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sophia Lewis (University of Oregon, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Publication date | 2026-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Japan focus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1557-4660 • E-ISSN: 1557-4660 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/apj.2026.10043 |
| OpenAlex | W7144217222 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This paper discusses the work of Japanese painter Nakamura Hiroshi in the late 1950s and early 1960s in light of the politics and literature debate raging among the Japanese intelligentsia in the immediate post-World War II era, focusing specifically on the exchange between Kurahara Korehito and the writers associated with the Kindai bungaku literary journal. A key issue in these debates was that of subjectivity, and this article argues that analyzing Nakamura’s paintings with a focus on this concept reveals how the development of his work was dialectically mediated through the tumultuous political upheavals of the postwar era
Focus (optics · Intelligentsia · Key (lock · Painting · Period (music · Politics · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Art, Technology, and Culture · Japanese History and Culture
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |