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MODERNISM

Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Nov 12, 2016
Remembering the forgotten woman of Japanese modernism
Chika Sagawa is an anomaly in the history of Japanese poetry. Born in Hokkaido as Aiko Kawasaki in 1911, she became one of Japan's first modernist poets, refusing to use the traditional poetic forms of tanka and haiku. The nation was changing in the early 20th century — Westernizing, nationalizing, militarizing — and she built new poetic forms to express this shifting landscape. The world she created was one where horses go mad and women turn blue; where "the sky has countless scars" and "eyes are covered by clouds."
CULTURE / Art
May 14, 2014
'A General Collection: Marc Chagall Lithographies'
Modernist Belarussian-Russian-French artist Marc Chagall's world was a colorful and imaginative one. He worked with many mediums, including oils, woodcut prints and etching. In the late 1940s, however, the color lithograph became one of his favorite art forms and he became renowned for his use of layered colors, a technique that allowed him to pursue and hone his vibrant style.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 30, 2013
'Art and literature in Japan 1926-1936'
Early 20th-century Japan experienced changes in both its political and sociological structures that, as the Showa Era (1926-1989) progressed, helped creative disciplines flourish. The 20th-century thus became a period of artistic and literary renaissance that paved the way for emerging trends and movements, which included proletarian art and modernism.
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