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The author is deeply grateful to the artists and their families for permission to reproduce their artworks in MIT Visualizing Cultures.

Bibliography

Dower, John W. Empire and Aftermath: Yoshida Shigeru and the Japanese Experience, 1878-1954 (Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard, 1979), pp. 305-492.

Dower, John W. “Occupied Japan and the Cold War in Asia,” in Dower, Japan in War and Peace: Selected Essays (New York: The New Press, 1994), pp. 155-207.

Dower, John W. “Peace and Democracy in Two Systems: External Policy and Internal Conflict,” in Postwar Japan as History, edited by Andrew Gordon (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), pp. 3-33.

Dower, John W. “The Superdomino In and Out of the Pentagon Papers,” in The Pentagon Papers: The Senator Gravel Edition, vol. 5, edited by Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn (Boston: Beacon Press, 1972), pp. 101-42.

Dower, John W. “Contested Ground: Shomei Tomatsu and the Search for Identity in Postwar Japan,” in Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation, edited by Leo Rubinfien and Sandra Phillips (New Haven: Yale University Press, in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2004), pp. 58-77 (touches on anti-U.S.-military-base photography in 1950s and 1960s Japan).

Havens, Thomas R. H. Radicals and Realists in the Japanese Nonverbal Arts: The Avant-Garde Rejection of Modernism (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2006).

Packard, George R. Protest in Tokyo: The Security Crisis of 1960 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966).

Schaller, Michael. Altered States: The United States and Japan since the Occupation (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).

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Links

“ANPO: Art X War” official website

“ANPO: Art X War” in Wikipedia

“Japan Focus” website: Linda Hoaglund, “ANPO: Art X War—In Havoc’s Wake,” The Asia-Pacific Journal, vol. 9, issue 41, no. 5, October 10, 2011

“Art in America” website: Ryan Holmberg, “Know Your Enemy: Anpo,” January 1, 2011

CREDITS

“Protest Art in 1950s Japan” was developed by Visualizing Cultures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and presented on MIT OpenCourseWare.

MIT Visualizing Cultures:
John W. Dower
Project Director
Emeritus Professor of History

Shigeru Miyagawa
Project Director
Professor of Linguistics
Kochi Prefecture-John Manjiro Professor of Japanese Language and Culture

Ellen Sebring
Creative Director

Scott Shunk
Program Director

Andrew Burstein
Media Designer

In collaboration with:
Linda Hoaglund
Author, essay

SUPPORT

MIT Visualizing Cultures received generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Henry Luce Foundation, the Getty Foundation, Japan Foundation's Council for Global Partnership, National Endowment for the Humanities, and MIT's d'Arbeloff Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education and MIT Microsoft-funded iCampus project.

 



 
 


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