Fundamental Feedback: Öyvind Fahlström's Kisses Sweeter than Wine

ARTMargins ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-39
Author(s):  
Maibritt Borgen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Pop Art ◽  
Media Images ◽  
Media Activism ◽  
Concrete Poetry ◽  
Multimedia Material ◽  
The Vietnam War

The article analyzes Öyvind Fahlström's (1928–1976) performance Kisses Sweeter Than Wine, which took place as part of the festival 9 Evenings: art&engineering in New York (1966). It situates the performance's use of multimedia material as continuations of earlier investigations into manipulating language that played a central part in the artist's practice of both visual art and concrete poetry. It further argues that in Kisses Sweeter Than Wine such manipulations form a series of ruptures into the wider circulation of mass-media images, ruptures that locate Fahlström's use of media images in relation to both Pop Art and the beginning media activism under the Vietnam War.

Pop as Translation Strategy: Makishi Tsutomu's Political Pop in Okinawa

ARTMargins ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-71
Author(s):  
Hiroko Ikegami
Keyword(s):  
Vietnam War ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Pop Art ◽  
Cocktail Party ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Japanese Imperialism ◽  
Translation Strategy ◽  
The Vietnam War

This essay makes the first sustained study of the Okinawan artist Makishi Tsutomu (1941–2015) who used American Pop Art vocabularies to describe the complex realities of US-occupied Okinawa. Focusing on his 1972 installation Commemorating the Reversion to the Great Empire of Japan, the essay examines the critical ambivalence of Makishi's Political Pop as a translation strategy. Despite his critique of both American and Japanese imperialism, Makishi was aware that Okinawa was inseparably entangled in it, especially in the context of the Vietnam War, which brought violence, but also economic benefits, to Okinawa. Despite his use of the American Pop idiom as a new lingua franca for contemporary art, Makishi's work did not reach either mainland or international audiences as the artist exhibited almost exclusively in Okinawa. By comparing Makishi's artistic strategies with those of a representative Okinawan novelist, Ōshiro Tatsuhiro, especially as articulated in his 1967 novella The Cocktail Party, the essay situates the significance of Makishi's project within the emerging discourse on the global neo-avant-garde.

scholarly journals Overburdening: Two books on the British politics towards Southeast Asia from 1943 to 1965

2012 ◽  
Vol 168 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-117
Author(s):  
Jaap Anten
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Vietnam War ◽  
British Politics ◽  
British Policy ◽  
The Vietnam War

Review of: Peter Lowe, Contending with nationalism and communism; British policy towards Southeast Asia, 1945-65. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, xii + 312 pp. [Global conflict and security since 1945.] ISBN 9780230524873. Price: GBP 60.00 (hardback). T.O. Smith, Britain and the origin of the Vietnam War; UK policy in Indo-China, 1943-50. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, xiii + 229 pp. [Global contlict and security since 1945.] ISBN 9780230507050. Price: GBP 60.00 (hardback)

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