The present volume represents an international collaboration of researchers working to remedy this oversight. Nakajima's work demands a reconceptualization of narratives of this art and politics and their specific interrelation to consider his exemplary nonconformity-and its exemplary exclusion.

William Marotti is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He teaches modern Japanese history with an emphasis on art and politics, everyday life, and cultural-historical issues. His works address the 1960s and the politics of 1968 as a global event through examinations of art, cultural politics, and oppositional practices. His publications include Money, Trains and Guillotines: Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan (2013), "The Art of the Everyday, as Crisis: Objets, Installations, Weapons, and the Origin of Politics" (2015) and "The Performance of Police and the Theatre of Protest" (2021).

1. DAM ACT: Yoshio Nakajima in Japan, 1957-1964. 2: Dancer, Happener, Provo: Yoshio Nakajima and the Dutch Happening Scene, 1964-1965. 3: Yoshio Nakajima and the Interplay of Art and Activism during the Mid-Sixties in Belgium. 4: Yoshio Nakajima: A Japanese Artist from Sweden. 5: When Art Grabs You: Grasping Art and Politics in the Global 1960s with Nakajima Yoshio. 6. Selected Chronology.