Tanaka Atsuko's "Electric Dress" and the circuits of subjectivity

• Autores: Namiko Kunimoto
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 95, Nº 3, 2013, págs. 465-483
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A full understanding of Tanaka Atsuko’s (1932–2005) work requires a reconsideration of its connections to the social context of 1950s Japan. Encountering the urban and industrial transformation, postwar shifts in gender status, and dramatic changes in the period’s visual culture, she had to restructure her sense of place in the world. Rather than an articulation of individualism emerging from a fixed sense of self in the postimperial moment, Tanaka’s work can be seen as expressing the frailty of subjectivity. It marks an interrogation of surface and selfhood that raises questions about the status of female subjectivity in 1950s Japan.