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Survival Boogie Woogie. Neo-Japonisme, Architectural Photography & Abstraction
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What links are there between Piet Mondrian’s unfinished work Victory Boogie Woogie (1942–4) and post-war Japanese and Japanese-style architectural photography? As far back as the mid-1950s, critics and photographers were inclined to link Mondrian’s painting with modern Japanese architecture and some historians were to go so far as to assert that Mondrian himself had been influenced by traditional Japanese architecture.Powerful associations such as these contributed to the coming together of Western and Japanese architectural modernity. They also underpinned the survival of Japonisme in architecture, or put another way, of the neo-Japonisme that emerged after the Second World War. However, while this kinship between Mondrian’s abstraction and the aesthetic of Japanese architecture is little apparent in architecture, it does show in architectural photography. This book, which takes a sidelong look at Mondrian, examines the works of the foremost among Japanese and American architectural photographers in an effort to interpret the dynamics of how the world of architecture was Japanized between 1945 and 1985.
Jean Sébastien Cluzel is a professor in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Sorbonne University, as well as an archaeologist and architect specializing in the history of Japanese architecture.
Foreword by Michael Lucken, Sorbonne University............................................................................................................................7
Neo-Japonisme and architectural photography....................................................................13
Writing the history of neo-Japonisme in architecture from 1936 to 1985
From Nikolaus Pevsner to Reyner Banham................................................................................................19
By way of background: How the techniques of architectural drawing and photography developed........................................................................................................................... 41
Japan Boogie Woogie
W. Blaser, N. Carver, Y. Ishimoto, Y. Watanabe, T. Satō, Y. Futagawa...................................49
Neo-Japonisme in Hollywood?
Richard Neutra and Julius Shulman................................................................................................................81
Photographs in neo-Japanese style since 1955
From Julius Shulman to Futagawa Yukio....................................................................................................99
Lewis Mumford, ‘The Sky Line – Status Quo’, 1947.............................................................. 113
Bibliography of books and articles cited......................................................................................... 121 Index........................................................................................................................................................................................ 126
Neo-Japonisme and architectural photography....................................................................13
Writing the history of neo-Japonisme in architecture from 1936 to 1985
From Nikolaus Pevsner to Reyner Banham................................................................................................19
By way of background: How the techniques of architectural drawing and photography developed........................................................................................................................... 41
Japan Boogie Woogie
W. Blaser, N. Carver, Y. Ishimoto, Y. Watanabe, T. Satō, Y. Futagawa...................................49
Neo-Japonisme in Hollywood?
Richard Neutra and Julius Shulman................................................................................................................81
Photographs in neo-Japanese style since 1955
From Julius Shulman to Futagawa Yukio....................................................................................................99
Lewis Mumford, ‘The Sky Line – Status Quo’, 1947.............................................................. 113
Bibliography of books and articles cited......................................................................................... 121 Index........................................................................................................................................................................................ 126
Scholars and students of global art history, Neo-Japonism, architecture, and post-war Japanese and Japanese-style architectural photography.