Publisher/京都国立近代美術館

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This book is a collection of catalogue works published at the exhibition held at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto in 2016. The following is from the organizer's introduction text: "In 1956, when 'no longer post-war' became a popular phrase, a group of cutting-edge Western art works selected by Paris-based art critic Michel Tapié and named 'Informel' (unformed art) arrived in Japan. These works, which emphasized the traces of the artist's actions, vivid colors, and the vivid materiality of the materials themselves, had a great impact on Japanese artists, and over the next few years, Informel-style 'passionate' expressions became explosively popular not only in Western painting and sculpture, but also in traditional Japanese expression genres such as Japanese painting, ceramics, and flower arranging. This exhibition will introduce this remarkable phenomenon, which is unprecedented in the history of Japanese art in terms of the breadth of genres and the diversity of its development, with approximately 100 works."