"Murakami and 'Superflat' in Context" Art Talk
The Vilcek Foundation
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The contemporary Japanese art movement, which the artist Takashi Murakami has labeled as “Superflat”, is often seen as an outgrowth of Western Pop Art. While certain qualities of such work deliberately mimic artists like Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Murakami and Superflat emerge from a specifically Japanese context and offer a response to some of the more traumatic aspects of Japanese history and contemporary life. This lecture will look at Superflat’s similarities to Pop and the ways in which it expresses a uniquely Japanese point of view.
Speaker Bio- The recipient of the 1992 Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism,Eleanor Heartney is an independent cultural critic and author. She is a contributing editor to Art in America and Art Press. Her articles regularly appear in Artnews, New Art Examiner, Washington Post, Sculpture, New York Times, and Art Asia Pacific. She authored Art and Today (Phaidon, 2008), Defending Complexity (Hardpress Editions, 2005), Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art (Midmarch Arts Press, 2004), Postmodernism (Tate Gallery and Cambridge University Press, 2001), and Critical Condition: American Culture at the Crossroads (Cambridge University Press, 1997). She co-authored After the Revolution: Women who Transformed Contemporary Art (Prestel, 2007).
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April 15, 2009 from 18:00 to 21:00