Imperial Animations in Transpacific Contemporary Art
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art and power
artistic resistance
aspirational authoritarianism
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collective imagination
critical aesthetics
cultural mobilization
decolonial futures
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global modernity
historical continuity
memory and modernism
political liberalism critique
postwar cultural memory
regional transformations
transpacific art histories
visual culture studies
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- ISBN 9780520421592
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 03 Feb 2026
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Imperial Animations in Transpacific Contemporary Art situates the Japanese Empire as a world-historical event that persists today through pervasive and deep impacts on regional and global politics. Considering contemporary artwork from across the transpacific region, Namiko Kunimoto documents efforts to expose colonial trauma and reveal its presence in shaping political liberalism in Japan as well as the global rise of aspirational fascism. At the heart of these artistic endeavors is a drive to animate, both in the sense of digitalization and performance and in the urge to enliven, mobilize, and reveal the continuities of imperialism today. The animate art addressed in this book urges us to think critically about imperialism and its links to the digital age, land, racism, and violence, thereby inviting us to reenvision our collective future.
Namiko Kunimoto is Director of the Center for Ethnic Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art at The Ohio State University. She is author of The Stakes of Exposure: Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art.
