The Stakes of Exposure

University of Minnesota Press
The Stakes of Exposure
The Stakes of Exposure

Namiko Kunimotoexplores art, visual culture, and politics in postwar Japan from the 1950s tothe 1970s, examining how anxiety and confusion surrounding Japan's newdemocracy manifested in representations of gender and nationhood in modern art.Offering many previously unpublished full-color illustrations, Kunimoto showshow contention over Japan's new democracy was expressed, disavowed, andreimagined through representations of the gendered body.