| | how ghostly were the 1920s in Japan? |
 | | This is especially the case with most of the Japanese avant-gardes who acted in accordance with the European present. |
 | | To participate actively in the new environment meant to acknowledge a discontinuity, a rupture with their immediate past without nostalgia, and to welcome a violent conflict with the politics of the continuity of the Imperial Government. |
 | | The photographic journal Ko¯ga [Picture of Light], published from 1932 to 1933, purported to spread even further novel photographic theories, and among some of the articles published there were those by Moholy-Nagy and Roh - both major contributors to the Film und Foto exhibition. |
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