Evening Lecture by Mika Kuraya
HONG KONG, 26th May, 2015 - Children in Yoshitomo Nara’s works were often viewed as being born and raised in an overly wealthy nation. Before the Tokyo Olympic Games in 1964, Japanese society was still poor and young, but at the same time, there were many new possibilities. Mika Kuraya, Chief Curator of the Department of Fine Arts, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, reconsidered the children in Nara’s works in the light of changes of the post-war Japanese society.
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