ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a summary overview of Superflat art. Focusing especially on the principal series of exhibits curated by Murakami Takashi, the chapter covers both a spectrum of Superflat artists and a sense of the movement’s trajectory. This includes a sense of the implications of the defining material conditions (associated with but not defined by digital technologies); the relation between these conditions and the idea of culture, history, and nation that are produced by them; and the role that Superflat played in positioning itself between art, commerce, and the mass/subculture of the otaku in particular.
