The Delicate Thread: Teshigahara's Life in Art

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Summary: Very on Western influence on post war Japanese art.
Review: Ashton sees postwar Japanese art from an American point of view. She is very good on the influence of Japanese who studied in Europe and Americans who brought New York '60s avant-garde art to Japan. Unfortunately, she has little background in Japanese art, history, culture and society. And it shows-particularly in her views of ikebana.See CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE SCULPTURE by Janet Koplos for a MUCH better treatment of contemporary Japaneses art and its relation to the traditional culture