Before and After Superflat: A Short History of Japanese Contemporary Art 1990-2011
Abstract
Any discussion of Japanese contemporary artinevitably leads to Takashi Murakami, YoshitomoNara and the other artists of the Superflat movement.But Japan as a whole has changed dramaticallysince the collapse of its “bubble” economy.Before and After Superflat offers the first comprehensivehistory in English of the Japanese artworld from 1990 up to the tsunami of March 2011.