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Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.94,0:00:10.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hiroshi Sugimoto: Becoming an Artist
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.64,0:00:26.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was a college student in Tokyo, my study was German Philosophy and also Marxist Economics,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:26.36,0:00:33.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And also, Hegel, Kant... I was trying to catch up with the Western philosophy.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.90,0:00:46.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Socialism and Communism--now it's been taken as a kind of a failed theory or failed thinking,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.63,0:00:55.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But, back in that time, that was one of the dream theories of how people can live together peacefully and nicely.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.86,0:01:16.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, when I moved to California, everybody was talking about the Zen and Buddhism,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.17,0:01:26.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I spent like three years in California studying Oriental Philosophy by myself to catch up, actually.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.80,0:01:29.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Laughs] So it goes the other way around.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.44,0:01:49.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,1974...Well, that was the kind of flower movement--flower children movement--so I was really into that.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.01,0:01:50.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[LAUGHS]
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.88,0:01:53.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I didn't pay that much attention to the serious art.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.26,0:02:08.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only after I moved to New York in 1974, I started realizing how important and interesting art can be.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.30,0:02:20.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you see this? It can be spottable.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.88,0:02:28.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm very interested in early 20th Century, 19th Century movement of Modernism.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.67,0:02:40.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, it's like an idealism, in general. And soon Realism and Dada.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.00,0:02:47.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's also trying to search the expansion of the human ability to see things in a different way.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.70,0:02:54.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, they are all like very ambitious adventurism in a way.