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Japan in the decades following World War II underwent a period of unprecedented expansion, and artists responded to the dramatic social changes in kind, unleashing an irrepressible creative spirit that was both provocative and innovative, opening to experimental movements, new trends in abstract artistic exploration and materialist aesthetics. From EYE-EAST, works by five leading avant-garde Japanese artists provide facets to the identity and expression of contemporary art in Japan after 1945.

Originally part of the École de Paris (School of Paris) and the Nouveau Réalisme (New Realism) …