Arts and Ideas 310: The Art of Being an Outsider in Japan

 

Information: This class is intended to introduce, in various media forms, how some Japanese artists in the last one hundred and fifty years have employed the outsider as a theme in their works to express their struggle with the duty to oneself vs. the duty to one's group.

Syllabus

Wabi Sabi / The Tradition

 

Natsume Soseki / Kokoro and the Meiji Era

Akira Kurosawa / Yojimbo

Osamu Tezuka / Manga

Shuji Terayama / Avant-Garde Theater

Haruki Murukami / Existential Post-60's Comedown

Boredoms / Way, Way, Way Underground Music

Hayao Miyazake / Anime

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