"When I was researching this book, I kept coming back to the work of the independent scholar/art historian Reiko Tomii, co-organizer of the online Japanese contemporary art history forum PonJaGenKon. Viewing the work of the period not through the lens of glorifying a single artist but as a complex network of collaborations in context, Tomii provides an exemplary model of a way to see the arts of this period. Not the author of a monograph, working outside of academia, Tomii is an activist in the art world and her articles-- 'Historicizing Contemporary Art: Some Discursive Practices in Gendai bijutsu Japan,' State v. (Anti-)Art: Model 1,000-Yen Note Incident by Akasegawa Genpei and Company' are all great ways to access the collaborative and performative works of the period, which are multifaceted, ephemeral, and too complex to hang simply on the white walls of a museum."

Recommended by Miryam Sas, Professor of Comparative Literature and Film & Media and author of Experimental Arts in Postwar Japan.