This talk unearths an immensely creative yet almost entirely overlooked body of Japanese art. Drawn from Volk's recently published In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan, and introducing charismatic but little-known paitnings, prints, and sculpture made during the US occupation (1945-1952). It will show how the forgotten art of a country in the shadows of American empire both accommodated and resisted the Cold War global realignment that followed on the heels of World War II. Volk will reveal the transnational…