Word: shusaku
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that Japanese collectors (not that there are many) ignore the work of contemporary Japanese painters and sculptors, which is why there are some 1,500 emigre artists from Japan working in New York City today. Those who make a solid reputation on the American art scene, like the painter Shusaku Arakawa-a highly intellectual artist whose half-conceptual, half-painterly work is, as one American critic put it, "haggard with self-consciousness"are much envied in Tokyo. But the most admired living artists are all Western, with Jasper Johns at the top, closely followed by Christo, whose island-fringing project...
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