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Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky
Published by Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1994
With contributions by Alexandra Munroe, Nam June Paik, and Arata Isozaki.

Focusing on key art movements and artists’ groups that defined postwar art and discourse, Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky charts the intellectual, aesthetic, and stylistic developments of avant-garde art in postwar Japan. In addition to introductory essays by video artist Nam June Paik and architect Arata Isozaki, it features an anthology of selected writings and artists’ statements dating from 1945, a glossary, an extensive bibliography, compiled by Reiko Tomii. This publication was published on the occasion of a 1994–95 touring exhibition at Yokohama Museum of Art; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 

ISBN: 978-0810935129