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Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture
Little Boy examines the culture of postwar Japan through its arts and popular visual media. Focusing on the youth-driven phenomenon of otaku (roughly translated as “geek culture” or “pop cult fanaticism”), Takashi Murakami and a notable group of contributors explore the complex historical influences that shape Japanese contemporary art and its distinct graphic languages. T...more
Hardcover, 312 pages
Published
May 11th 2005
by Yale University Press
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Good news, here http://www.gwern.net/docs/2005-murakami is an excellent PDF of this Essay on WWII infantilizing Japanese culture such as anime and otaku. Takashi Murakami is a good hands writer. Exploding subculture is a pun. Little Boy is the name of the Hiroshima bomb. Anime is a production of Little Boy. Superflat is a societal autism. The USG Manhattan Project boys, proud physicists all, naming their bombs, or the people they were dropped on, driven into infancy and beyond, emasculated, juve...more
This book was very interesting, but too advanced for me I think. I was surprised that I knew so many of the artists involved in this since I don't really follow art, but I guess I've been studying Japan through it's culture long enough that I managed to pick it up by osmosis.
I think the main point of this art project goes something like this. Japan is haunted by the legacy of the atom bomb, and by the American occupation that followed but is in denial because these events are too horrific to pr...more
I think the main point of this art project goes something like this. Japan is haunted by the legacy of the atom bomb, and by the American occupation that followed but is in denial because these events are too horrific to pr...more
Seriously one of the most well designed and entertaining art books that I have ever bought. This book covers the rise of the Otaku or nerd culture in Japan and how contemporary artists have been influenced by it.
fantastic book. it will expand your cultural understanding of pop culture in japan with a focus on the origin and progression of anime and yet you don't need to like anime to enjoy this book.
This book is an *excellent* introduction not only to elements of Japanese pop-culture, but also the collected influences of "Superflat".
OTAKU EXPLOSION!!!
Amazing exhibit, awesome catalog.
Amazing exhibit, awesome catalog.
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