Critical design in Japan : material culture, luxury, and the avant-garde /

Critical design in Japan : material culture, luxury, and the avant-garde /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bartal, Ory, author.
Imprint:	Manchester [UK] : Manchester University Press, [2020]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in design and material culture Studies in design and material culture.
Subject:	Design -- Japan. Decorative arts -- Japan. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) -- Japan. Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Decorative arts. Design. Japan.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12557931

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ISBN:	9781526139986 1526139987 9781526140012 1526140012 1526139979 9781526139979
Notes:	Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 17, 2020).
Summary:	This book tells the story of critical avant-garde design in Japan. It challenge the characterisation of Japanese design as beautiful, sublime or a simple product of 'Japanese culture', and reveal the ways in which material and visual culture can serve to voice protest and formulate social critique.
Other form:	Print version: 9781526140012 Print version: 1526139979 9781526139979

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Postmodern critiques, Japan's economic miracle, and the new aesthetic milieu
The 1968 social uprising and subversive advertising design in Japan : the work of Ishioka Eiko and Suzuki Hachirō
From cute to Rei Kawakubo : fashion and protest
Mujirushi Ryohin and the absence of style
Hironen and the representation of the other
Digital design as social and critical design in the twenty-first century.