RAVENS y RED LIPSTICK

Ravens... offers a visually bold survey of Japanese photographys recent history. Fritsch masterfully frames each movement with thei r business, education, and art-institutional backdrops?she shows the consumerism and intense political debates of 1960s and 70s Jap an, to be central to the rough style of the Provoke artists. Fritschs great achievement is to bring observations from a range of disciplines to bear on her commentary with imagination and clarity.