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Boundless Venus: the Crossover of the Conscious and Unconscious in the Works of Haruki Murakami
No full textThe objective of this thesis, Boundless Venus, is to examine consciousness in the
works of the contemporary Japanese writer Haruki Murakami. Principally the
discussion concerns itself with the unconscious, its conduits, its benefits upon the
conscious; which lead to the transformation of the self and structure of the literature.
Although the subject has been touched upon before, the conscious and unconscious
have previously been examined as exclusive concepts in Murakami. This research
will be looking at the recent change in the ‘crossover’ between these concepts,
which makes the concepts no longer two mutually exclusive concepts but ‘inclusive
concepts’. This is vital to understanding Murakami’s more recent works and the
nature of his influence on literature.
Boundless Venus explores the entire works of Haruki Murakami, principally his
most recent novel 1Q84 (2011) and his novels Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the
End of the World (1991) and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (1997). It approaches the
work from a psychoanalytic and critical point of view and focuses on significant
narrative techniques, character development, and themes such as sex, music, and
dreams, used by Murakami to explore the relationship between the conscious and
unconscious and to narrate the crossover between the two
Beyond Consumption: the art and merchandise of a superflat generation
No full textThis thesis investigates the impact of Superflat theory and practice of the artist and curator, Takashi Murakami. The thesis aims to analyse how contemporary transnational artistic activity functions via the work of Murakami and Superflat artists, including Chiho Aoshima and Aya Takano. From the blockbuster group exhibition, Super Flat, curated by Murakami, which debuted in the United States in 2001 at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, to the 2007-2009 ©MURAKAMI retrospective traveling from Los Angeles to Brooklyn then Frankfurt to Bilbao, the synthesis of ideas is showing the way to unprecedented directions in contemporary art. This investigation also links Murakami’s work to that of American Pop artists Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons and explores how Superflat art functions within and contributes to the already distorted area between parallel structures, such as high and low, fine art and commercial production, or East and West.
When peeling back the layers of Superflat, there is a rich, beautiful and violent history. Recognising the fusion of tradition and technology, my research explores how Superflat artists are achieving international success by engaging in multiple outlets of creative expression and collaboration in the continuing context of globalisation and a consumer-driven art market. Images of anxiety and destruction are disguised as playful and marketable characters, and three-dimensional animation figures become cultural icons. Superflat explores the simulated, sensuous, colourful and obsessive “realities” that we inhabit on a global scale and captures a twenty-first century aesthetic. With reference to the representation of violence and disaster in art and popular culture, contemporary Japan’s construction of national identity and the postwar “Americanization” of Japan, this thesis examines how the layering of ideas via cross-cultural exchange produces a new form of hybrid and hyper Pop art
Contemporary Art in Japan and Cuteness in Japanese Popular Culture
No full textThis thesis is an art historical study focussing on contemporary Japan, and in particular the artists Murakami TakashL Mori Mariko, Aida Makoto, and Nara Yoshitomo. These artists represent a generation of artists born in the 1960s who use popular culture to their own ends. From the seminal exhibition 'Tokyo Pop' at Hiratsuka Museum of Art in 1996 which included all four artists, to Murakami's group exhibition 'Little Boy: The Arts of Japan's Exploding Subculture' which opened in April 2005, central to my research is an exploration of contemporary art's engagement with the pervasiveness of cuteness in Japanese culture.
Including key secondary material, which recognises cuteness as not merely something trivial but involving power play and gender role issues, this thesis undertakes an interdisciplinary analysis of cuteness in contemporary Japanese popular culture, and examines howcontemporary Japanese artists have responded, providing original research through interviews with Aida Makoto, Mori Mariko and Murakami Takashi. Themes examined include the deconstruction of the high and low in contemporary art; sh6jo (girl) culture and cuteness; the relation of cuteness and the erotic; the transformation of cuteness into the grotesque; cuteness and nostalgia; and virtual cuteness in Japanese science fiction animation, and computer games.
Director of Studies: Toshio Watanabe
Supervisors: David Ryan and Omuka Toshihar
Takashi Murakami and his partnerships with fashion industry
No full textopenIl testo prende in esame l’artista giapponese Takashi Murakami, il suo percorso artistico e di collaborazione con il mondo della moda. Grazie ai suoi sei capitoli, l’elaborato descrive ed esamina il percorso biografico che ha portato Murakami a creare il proprio stile artistico, lo sviluppo del rapporto arte-moda e le seguenti tre collaborazioni: la collezione “Cherry Blossom” del 2003 realizzata per la maison Louis Vuitton, la collaborazione “Future History” del 2018 con il designer Virgil Abloh per Off-White e la collaborazione con Billie Eilish per Uniqlo del 2020.The text examines the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, his artistic journey and collaboration with fashion industry. Thanks to its six chapters, the essay describes and explains the biographical path that led Murakami to create his own artistic style, the development of the art-fashion relationship and the following three collaborations: the 2003 "Cherry Blossom" collection created for Louis Vuitton, the 2018 “Future History” collaboration with designer Virgil Abloh for Off-White and the 2020 collaboration with Billie Eilish for Uniqlo
Letter from Miriko [Nagahama] and Harry Murakami to Wilda [Johnson], December 1994
No full textChristmas letter addressed to Wilda [Johnson], describing a family reunion at Mammoth Lakes and providing news of family and friends. Mentioned also are several of Murakami's writings, including the booklet, entitled "A Probable Jesus"; an open letter to Niseis that was printed in the November, [1994?] issue of the Tozai Times, published in Los Angeles; and a future project that Murakami describes as "my Las Vegas project to Niseis residing there."The Manzanar Collection features materials relating to the forced relocation to Manzanar, California, of Miriko Nagahama and Honey Mitsuye Toda, including correspondence, photographs, and newspapers, donated in 1981 and 1995
Wallace Doi, Mary Doi, Miki Murakami, and Yoshio Murakami.
No full textPhoto of Wallace Doi, Mary Doi, her mother Miki Murakami, and brother Yoshio Murakami
Nitzan Haroz and Kazuo Murakami in a Guest Artist Recital
No full textThis is the program for the guest artist recital featuring trombonist Nitzan Haroz and pianist Kazuo Murakami. This recital took place on February 24, 2008, in the W. Francis McBeth Recital Hall
Application of the Murakami approach to model the fatigue strength of wrought Ti6Al4V machined under cryogenic conditions
No full textopenIn questa esperienza è stato analizzato come influiscono le diverse tecniche di lubro-refrigerazione nel limite di fatica di provini in lega di titanio Ti-6Al-4V forgiato con microstruttura lamellare. Tali provini erano stati sottoposti, in un precedente lavoro, ad una prova di fatica a flessione rotante in modo da determinare il limite di fatica.
Inizialmente sono state determinate le cause che hanno provocato la rottura a fatica, identificando la rugosità prodotta dalla tornitura come il fattore principale; per verificare tale ipotesi sono stati determinati i parametri di rugosità, il tipo di microstruttura e la durezza del materiale in modo tale da applicare il modello di Murakami. Inoltre è stata analizzato lo stato di superficie degli inserti che hanno lavorato mediante tornitura i provini
Thinking outside the Chinese Box: David Mitchell and Murakami Haruki’s subversion of stereotypes about Japan
No full textJapan has often been portrayed by orientalist stereotypes, as famously framed by Edward Said, that were mainly constituted within Europe and North America. There are two distinct streams of orientalist discourse around Japan: traditional Orientalism and techno-Orientalism. Here the West speaks of the Other/the non-West rather than allowing it to speak for itself. In regards to the discourse of ‘Otherness’, another interesting phenomenon is Japan’s self-Orientalising: through the internalisation of the Western Orientalist discourse, Japan identifies itself and constructs its own subjectivity.
In his literary works, the author David Mitchell attempts to subvert the conventional orientalist approach to describe Japan while concurrently maintaining his position as a British observer. He makes use of Western perspectives to cater to his Western readers’ preference for Japan’s traditional and cultural elements, and yet at the same time attempts to subvert stereotypes. Mitchell’s approach is reminiscent of Japanese author Murakami Haruki’s use of both ‘Japaneseness’ and ‘un-Japaneseness’ in his works. Mitchell also learnt the importance of the use of the subjective narrative voice from Murakami. In this article, I examine how David Mitchell, as a western author, attempts to go beyond orientalist stereotypes, and how his writing is influenced by Murakami Haruki
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