VLVL-related: Japanese low culture sweeps U.S.

[Matt Treyvaud]

On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Doug Millison wrote:

> http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/artleisure/cute-high-art.html
> 
> ...
> the Yerba Buena Center. "Just as a pop singer might change his image or
> even his name from tour to tour, these visual artists put on masks to
> explore social  and political conditions. Among contemporary Japanese fine
> artists, I see a form of magical realism that is tough, fragile and
> electric."

does anyone know of japanese writers doing this sort of thing? (and with
good english translations available, too; matt = nihongo-illiterate
gaikokuzin)

matt