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Postwar Avant-garde Art. Architecture of Tange Kenzô and Isozaki Arata. Okamoto Taro 1911-1996 Mori no okite (Law of the Jungle) 1950. Okamoto Taro Kinenkan Oil On Canvas 181.5 × 259.5 cm. Okamoto Taro, Tower of the Sun (Osaka Expo, 1970). Source. Tange Kenzô Olympic Stadium 1964.
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Postwar Avant-garde Art Architecture of Tange Kenzô and Isozaki Arata
Okamoto Taro 1911-1996Mori no okite (Law of the Jungle) 1950 Okamoto Taro Kinenkan Oil On Canvas 181.5 × 259.5 cm.
Tange KenzôOlympic Stadium 1964 c. Hugh Lester, Tulane University of Louisiana
Tange • Japanese government buildings • 1955-58 Kagawa Prefectural Offices
Tange’s Tokyo Plan, 1960 • Visions of “Neo-Tokyo?”
Tange KenzôTokyo Metropolitan Government Offices (Shinjuku 1991) • “The exterior adopts the silhouette of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, and the circular plaza connecting separate properties is reminiscent of Italian cities. This is unquestionably the summit of Japanese post-modernism.” Tokyo Architecture Guide Magazine
Isozaki Arata • Future Tokyo plans--Neo-Tokyo? • Igarashi Taro photo archives of Isozaki
Morita Shiryû Photo: Japan Art Galarie Frankfurt
Noguchi and Tange’s Peace Park Source: Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum
Yanagi Yukinori • The World Flag Ant Farm 1990. • Ant, colored sand, plastic box, plastic tube, plastic pipe and video documentation on LCD monitor, each plastic box 24X30 cm (total 170). Collection: Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Japan. Photo: Norihiro Ueno