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Urban Images and Spaces: Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass and Environmental Arts in Japan

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Katachi ∪ Symmetry

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Today, the city extends itself in invisible networks of production, reproduction and distribution of the information by means of images and sounds, which intervene profoundly on our consciousness and influence our attitude and sensibility. Artists like Yamaguchi Katsuhiro are well conscious of this phenomena and their work show reflections of a situation which had already been pointed out by Marcel Duchamp in his Large Glass. They suggest how to make the best use of today’s technology. They are searching for “space extensions”, which amplify gestures and progression of the body. Such spaces tie up to the body the technological prosthesis which they are constituted of. The work of art acts then like a regulator, by integrating the technique to our body, and to our sensibility.

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  1. Tôkyô 116, Arakawaku, Nishinippori 3-9-20, Japan

    Christophe Charles

  2. College of Art and Design, University of Tsukuba, 305 Tsukuba-shi, Japan

    Christophe Charles

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  1. Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Ten-nodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan

    Tohru Ogawa (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Institute of Space and Astronautical Science Structural Morphology Research, University of Tokyo and Professor Emeritus, 3-9-7 Tsurukawa, Machida, Tokyo 195, Japan

    Koryo Miura (Professor Emeritus) (Professor Emeritus)

  3. Institute of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Ten-nodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan

    Takashi Masunari (Professor) (Professor)

  4. Institute of Applied Physics, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Ten-nodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305, Japan

    Dénes Nagy (Professor, Director) (Professor, Director)

  5. Symmetrion-The Institute for Advanced Symmetry Studies, P.O. Box 4, Budapest, H-1361, Hungary

    Dénes Nagy (Professor, Director) (Professor, Director)

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Charles, C. (1996). Urban Images and Spaces: Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass and Environmental Arts in Japan. In: Ogawa, T., Miura, K., Masunari, T., Nagy, D. (eds) Katachi ∪ Symmetry. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-68407-7_29

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