Books
Chong, Doryun, ed. Tokyo 1955–1970: A New Avant Garde. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2012.

Dower, John. Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. New York: Norton, 2000.

Merewether, Charles, and Rika Iezumi Hiro, eds. Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan, 1950–1970. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2007.

Munroe, Alexandra. Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994.

Munroe, Alexandra, and Ming Tiampo. Gutai: Splendid Playground. New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2013.

Tiampo, Ming. Gutai: Decentering Modernism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.

For Younger Students
Rubin, Susan Goldman. Breaking the Rules: What is Contemporary Art? Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2010.

Takabayashi, Mari. I Live in Tokyo. New York: Sandpiper, 2004.

Videos
Murakami Sabur?, “Passage,” 1956/94, YouTube video, 54 sec., posted by “mediapicnic,” May 14, 2006, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWctXXGeJMA.

Namuth, Hans. “Jackson Pollock 51,” 1950, YouTube video, 1 min., 20 sec., posted by “OtipodasHistorias,” Feb. 28, 2007, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bICqvmKL5s.

“Outdoor Gutai Exhibition,” part 1/5, 1956, 5 min., 43 sec., Tofu Magazine, http://www.tofu-magazine.net/newVersion/pages/Gutai56.html.

Websites
Virtual Museum of Japanese Arts web-japan.org/museum/menu.html

Hauser and Wirth Gallery, A Visual Essay on Gutai hauserwirth.com/exhibitions/1429/a-visual-essay-on-gutai-at-32-east-69th-street/view/

Hundertmark Gallery, Gutai hundertmark-gallery.com/180.0.html

Metabolism: The City of the Future, Mori Art Museum mori.art.museum/english/contents/metabolism/about/index.html

Metabolist School of Architecture outsiderjapan.pbworks.com/w/page/32006912/Architecture%20in%20Japan%3A%20The%20Metabolist%20Movement