During the 1960s, a group of artists challenged the status quo in Japan through interventionist art. William Mariotti situates the artists in relation to postwar Japan and the international activism of the 1960s.

Acknowledgments ix
Chronology of Select Events xiii
Introduction 1
Part I. Art against the Police: Akasegawa Genpei's 1,000-Yen Prints, the State, and the Borders of the Everyday 9
1. The Vision of the Police 15
2. The Occupation, the New Emperor System, and the Figure of Japan 37
3. The Process of Art 74
Part II. Artistic Practice Finds Its Object: The Avant-Garde and the Yomiuri Indépendant 111
4. The Yomiuri Indépendant: Making and Displacing History 117
5. The Yomiuri Anpan 152
Part III. Theorizing Art and Revolution 201
6. Beyond the Guillotine: Speaking of Art / Art Speaking 207
7. Naming the Real 245
8. The Moment of the Avant-Garde 284
Epilogue 317
Notes 319
Select Bibliography 393
Index 405