Postwar Avant-garde Art Architecture of Tange Kenzô and Isozaki Arata
Okamoto Taro Mori no okite (Law of the Jungle) Okamoto Taro Kinenkan Oil On Canvas × cm.
Okamoto Taro, Tower of the Sun (Osaka Expo, 1970) Source
Tange Kenzô Tange Kenzô Olympic Stadium 1964 c. Hugh Lester, Tulane University of Louisiana
Tange Japanese government buildings Kagawa Prefectural Offices
Tange’s Tokyo Plan, 1960 Visions of “Neo-Tokyo?”
Tange Tsukiji plan, 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 MagazineTokyo Architecture Guide Magazine
Isozaki Arata Future Tokyo plans-- Neo-Tokyo? Igarashi Taro photo archives of Isozaki archives
Morita Shiryû Photo: Japan Art Galarie Frankfurt
Isamu Noguchi with Shirley Yamaguchi, early 1950s
Noguchi and Tange’s Peace Park Source: Isamu Noguchi Garden MuseumIsamu Noguchi Garden Museum
Yanagi Yukinori The World Flag Ant Farm 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