"Tsuchi is a compelling and original book that brings together new insights into the relationships between environmentalism, contemporary art, and the aesthetics of Japanese earth. Bert Winther-Tamakis interweaving of historical context, close visual analysis, and rich use of Japanese sources make it an outstanding book that will make a lasting impact in the field of Japanese art history and beyond."-Namiko Kunimoto, author of The Stakes of Exposure: Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art
"Tsuchi is a superb key concept that allows us to dig deeper into a rich lode of world art history that is postwar Japan. In his thoughtful study, Bert Winther-Tamaki literally offers us a bottom-up view of what such radical practitioners as Shiraga Kazuo and Nakahira Takuma saw, felt, and experienced with this ubiquitous matter of our planet."-Reiko Tomii, independent scholar
"Tsuchi provides an ingenious structure for understanding the visual culture surrounding the very ground we stand on. "-H-Net Reviews
"Against the backdrop of the regions urbanization and intensifying environmental issues, this rigorous text seeks to understand the earth itself as an artistic medium for critiquing the roots of these interconnected crises, and the fusion of ecology and art as a potential path forward."-Hyperallergic
