'A small essay of comparative art history, this exhibition highlights “anti-art” performative tendencies in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan in the 1960s—a decade of turbulence and transformation worldwide, which was also a critical period in the social and political, as well as cultural and artistic histories of the three neighboring countries. Against the mainstream dominated by modernist abstraction in each country, orientations toward the use of the artist’s body and ephemeral action emerged not only as local manifestations of a broader movement in international postwar art but also as indigenous responses to their respective national contexts. "Great Crescent" includes many reproductions of documentary images of immaterial, if critical, performances and events, accompanied by textual narratives and printed matters.' - from gallery's website.

The display's staging is designed by Hong Kong artist Leung Chi Wo.

Alternative title

Da xin yue: liu shi nian dai de yi shu yu ji dang - ri ben, nan han, tai wan

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Onsite

Location code
EXS.HGK.GCA
Language

Chinese - Traditional, 

English

Publication/Creation date

2013

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Nil

No of copies

1

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catalogue

Great Crescent: Art and Agitation in the 1960s - Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan
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Great Crescent: Art and Agitation in the 1960s - Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, 大新月: 六十年代的藝術與激盪 - 日本, 南韓, 台灣

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