Deviant Properties
Deviant Properties
Street Observation Studies
Chapter 4 centers on the activities of the Street Observation Studies Society, a group of artists, historians, and others who won a broad following with their documentation of overlooked and seemingly inexplicable details of the Tokyo streetscape. Street Observation was just part of a larger trend of urban exploration that became popular during the bubble years of the 1980s. It represented a challenge to state and capitalist urban visions. At the same time, it articulated a desire to appropriate the remaining fragments of the city that had not already been repackaged by capital.
Keywords: streetscape, appropriation, ephemera, empiricism, Henri LeFebvre, Guy Debord, found art, Akasegawa Genpei, economic bubble
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