Postwar Avant-garde Art

Architecture of Tange Kenzô and Isozaki Arata

Okamoto Taro 1911-1996Mori no okite (Law of the Jungle) 1950

Okamoto Taro Kinenkan

Oil On Canvas 181.5　×　259.5 cm.

Okamoto Taro, Tower of the Sun (Osaka Expo, 1970)

Source

Tange KenzôOlympic Stadium 1964

c. Hugh Lester, Tulane University of Louisiana

Tange

• Japanese government buildings

• 1955-58 Kagawa Prefectural Offices

Tange’s Tokyo Plan, 1960

• Visions of “Neo-

Tokyo?”

Tange Tsukiji plan, 1960-64 unrealized

Tange Kenzô Tokyo Metropolitan Government Offices (Shinjuku 1991)

• “The exterior adopts the silhouette of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, and the circular plaza connecting separate properties is reminiscent of Italian cities. This is unquestionably the summit of Japanese post-modernism.” Tokyo Architecture Guide Magazine

Isozaki Arata

• Future Tokyo plans--Neo-Tokyo?

• Igarashi Taro photo archives of Isozaki

Morita Shiryû

Photo: Japan Art Galarie Frankfurt

Isamu Noguchiwith Shirley Yamaguchi, early 1950s

Noguchi and Tange’s Peace Park

Source: Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum

Yanagi Yukinori

• The World Flag Ant Farm 1990. • Ant, colored sand, plastic box, plastic tube, plastic pipe and video

documentation on LCD monitor, each plastic box 24X30 cm (total 170). Collection: Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Japan. Photo: Norihiro Ueno