Article: Japan's jazz-age avant-garde.(Book Review)

Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde 1905-1931, by Gennifer Weisenfeld, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2002; 370 pages, $55 cloth.

Gennifer Weisenfeld is that rare creature, a scholar of Japanese art (now teaching at Duke) who specializes in the modern era. Her first book (based on her doctoral dissertation) is centered on the short, intense life of Mavo, a group of Japanese artists committed to social revolution. Led by Murayama Tomoyoshi (1901-1977; names are in Japanese order, family name first), the members created paintings and sculptures; staged events, exhibitions and performances; and designed books, magazines, signs and a few structures. ...

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