Critical Writing Index

Idemitsu Mako at Kanagawa Women's Center

by Nancy Shalala

Asian Art News, Sept. 1994, v. 4, no. 5

Nancy Shalala reviews the ironic subject matter of Idemitsu Mako's subversive feminist video art. Dubbed Japan's "first feminist artist", Mako's film and video work parodies and criticizes Japan's post-World War II cultural hegemony, particularly women's relegation to motherhood and the domestic sphere.

ITEM 1994.098 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Yoji, What's Wrong with You?Idemitsu Mako

Hideo-chan, Mama Yo. [Hideo. Dear. It's Your Mother]Idemitsu Mako