Ph. D., Princeton University, 1997, 552 p. ADVISER:Yoshiaki Shimizu. ISBN 0-591-50549-5
DAI-A 58/07, p. 2432, Jan 1998

The Japanese western-style artists’ group Mavo, active in the late Taisho period (1912-1926). "Responding to the rapidly changing conditions of modern Japan, Mavo artists sought to transform artistic production and practice by incorporating a social and political consciousness into their work, and by reconnecting art and daily life. They recast themselves as social critics, strategically fusing modernist aesthetics with leftist politics to effect their critique. I argue that Mavo’s self-conscious rebellion produced a form of cultural anarchism that was a formative voice in the intellectual debates of the interwar period"