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With their critical views and new approaches, the scholars and curators examine how visual art from postcolonial countries deviated from the communist\/capitalist dichotomy to explore issues of identity, environment, rapid commercialization of art, and independence. These foci offer windows into some lesser-known aspects of the Cold War, including humanistic responses to the neo-imperial exploitations of people and resources as capitalism transformed into its most aggressive form.  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By examining Kusama's art alongside that of her peers, Yamamura offers a new perspective on Kusama's career.Yamamura shows that Kusama, who came of age in totalitarian wartime Japan, embraced art as an anticonformist pursuit, seeking a subjective autonomy that resulted in the singular expression of her art. Examining Kusama's association with European and New York art movements of the 1960s and her creation of psychedelic light-and-sound Happenings, Yamamura argues that Kusama and her heterogeneous peers defied and undermined various pillars of modernity during the crucial transition from the modern nation-state to global free-market capitalism.The art market rediscovered Kusama in the 1990s, and she has since had a series of high-profile exhibitions. 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