Japan’s jazz-age avant-garde – Book Review

Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde 1905-1931, by Gennifer Weisenfeld, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2002; 370 pages, $55 cloth.
Gennifer Weisenfeld is that rare creature, a scholar of Japanese art (now teaching at Duke) who specializes in the modern era. Her first book (based on her doctoral dissertation) is centered on the short, intense life [...]