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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. Note this book is written in dual language English and Japanese. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> While further expanding images derived from several of my most recent experimental works I would like to provide them with a theoretical back ground. The Exposition Internationale de l’Art Actuel held at the end of 1956 provided Japan with its first introduction to Art Informel but Art Informel and action painting subsequently led to a blind devotion to these trends that have continued to dominate the art world. This is easily attributable to the Japanese temperament and its Fauvist tendencies. The reason that Art Informel which first emerged in the West took root here was simply that it was adopted as an officially recognized safe approach devoid of the movement’s original negation and rebellion. The initial aim of action painting which incorporates the alien element of action into paint- ing as a means of overhauling the image led to a flood of painting that was merely an emission of physical energy a huge increase in the kind of wall like paintings introduced by [Antoni] T?pies and paintings that were mistak enly thought to be spiritually profound. The once popular dark high-grade tramp-like expressions solemn materials emotional warmth and spiteful mood can all be seen as characteristics rooted in the Japanese climate. (SP)