Minoru Onoda

First-ever monograph on Japanese artist Minoru Onoda, a distinguished member of the radical Gutai artistic movement in the 1960s and 1970s

Minoru Onoda is best known as a member of Gutai, Japan's first postwar radical artistic movement, which challenged what it saw as the rigid, reactionary ideologies of the art of the time and initiated new ones that redefined the relationships among matter, time, and space. Concurrently to the inception of Gutai, Onoda became enchanted by concepts of repetition, producing paintings and drawings with amalgamations of gradually increasing dots and organically growing shapes. But less is known in the West about Onoda's early and late-career work.

At long last, this first-ever full monograph on Minoru Onoda introduces him as an artist in his own right. Apart from his role with Gutai, the book mines Onoda's sketchbooks and completed works to explore his creative process over time, from his artistic education in the late 1950s at the Osaka Institute of Fine Arts and the Osaka School of Art to his later works following the 1972 disbanding of Gutai, which see the artist moving toward a monochrome and more conceptual style. Alongside critical essays by Edward M. Gómez, Astrid Handa-Gagnard, Shoichi Hirai, Koichi Kawasaki, and Takesada Matsutani, are 175 full-color illustrations.

• Minoru Onoda zählt zu den wichtigsten Künstlern im Japan der Nachkriegszeit
• Erste Monografie überhaupt zum Werk Onodas
• Betrachtet im Detail seine Beziehung zu Gutai und seine Arbeitsweise
• Zahlreiche Farbabbildungen lassen die Plastizität seiner Werke aufleben

• Japanische Ausgabe: Minoru Onoda (ISBN 978-3-85881-822-5)

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Edward M. Gómez ist Kunsthistoriker, Kritiker, Grafikdesigner und Kurator sowie Chefredaktor des Kunstmagazins Raw Vision.

Astrid Handa-Gagnard ist Kunsthistorikerin und Kuratorin sowie Direktorin des FRAC Bourgogne in Dijon.

Shoichi Hirai ist Kunsthistoriker und Professor an der Kansai University in Osaka.

Koichi Kawasaki ist Kunsthistoriker und Professor an der Konan Women's University in Kobe.