Publisher's Synopsis
Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-86) invented the revolutionary performance art Ankoku Butoh - now celebrated worldwide as one of the most innovative and haunting contemporary art forms. This essential study of Hijikata is the first-ever account of his life and work in English and is based on extensive interviews with his surviving collaborators. In particular, it looks at the engagement in Hijikata's work with European literary sources such as Genet and Sade, and at his performance art's attempt to reconfigure the nature of memory and of the human anatomy.
