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DESCRIPTION:From the mid-1950s through the 1960s\, Tokyo transformed itself
  from the capital of a war-torn nation into an international center for ar
 ts\, culture\, and commerce\, becoming home to some of the most important 
 art being made at the time.&nbsp\;<em>Tokyo 1955&ndash\;1970: A New Avant-
 Garde</em>&nbsp\;provides a focused look at the extraordinary concentratio
 n and network of creative individuals and practices in this dynamic city d
 uring these turbulent years. Featuring works of various media&mdash\;paint
 ing\, sculpture\, photography\, drawings\, and graphic design\, as well as
  video and documentary film&mdash\;the exhibition offers a story of artist
 ic crossings\, collaborations\, and\, at times\, conflicts\, with the city
  as an incubator. It introduces the myriad avant-garde experiments that em
 erged as artists drew on the energy of this rapidly growing and changing m
 etropolis.\n\n<em>Tokyo 1955&ndash\;1970: A New Avant-Garde</em>&nbsp\;bri
 ngs together some of the most iconic works from the period as well as work
 s recently discovered or reevaluated by new scholarship. A significant num
 ber are already part of MoMA&rsquo\;s collection\, while others are on loa
 n from important public collections in Japan and the United States. Artist
 s in the exhibition include artist collectives such as Jikken Kobo (Experi
 mental Workshop)\, Hi Red Center (Takamatsu Jiro\, Akasegawa Genpei\, Naka
 nishi Natsuyuki)\, and Group Ongaku (Group Music)\; critical artistic figu
 res such as Okamoto Taro\, Nakamura Hiroshi\, Ay-O\, Yoko Ono\, Shiomi Mie
 ko\, and Tetsumi Kudo\; photographers Moriyama Daido\, Hosoe Eikoh\, and T
 omatsu Shomei\; illustrators and graphic designers Yokoo Tadanori\, Sugiur
 a Kohei\, and Awazu Kiyoshi\; and architects Tange Kenzo\, Isozaki Arata\,
  and Kurokawa Kisho\, among others.\n\nIn conjunction with&nbsp\;<em>Tokyo
  1955&ndash\;1970: A New Avant-Garde</em>\, MoMA presents a 40-film retros
 pective of the Art Theatre Guild\, the independent film company that radic
 ally transformed Japanese cinema by producing and distributing avant-garde
  and experimental works from the 1960s until the early 1980s. The retrospe
 ctive features such filmmakers as Teshigahara Hiroshi\, Shindo Kaneto\, Im
 amura Shohei\, Oshima Nagisa\, Matsumoto Toshio\, and Wakamatsu Koji. This
  exhibition runs December 7\, 2012&ndash\;February 10\, 2013\, and is orga
 nized by Go Hirasawa\, Meiji-Gakuin University\; Roland Domenig\, Universi
 ty of Vienna\; and Joshua Siegel\, Associate Curator\, Department of Film\
 , The Museum of Modern Art.\n
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SUMMARY:MOMA's new exhibition on Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant-Garde
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