Kingdom of Beauty - Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan

Informationen zum Autor Kim Brandt Klappentext ""Kingdom of Beauty" is first-rate. Kim Brandt's analysis is sharp, her organization supple, her writing graceful. Moreover, her synthesis of the imperial with the domestic--and of the ideological with the material--makes the book a model of cultural history."--Karen Wigen, author of "The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920" Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. The Beauty of Sorrow 7 2. The Discovery of Mingei 38 3. New Mingei in the 1930s 83 4. Mingei and the Wartime State, 1937-1945 124 5. Renovating Greater East Asia 173 Epilogue 223 Notes 229 Bibliography 277 Index 293

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Kim Brandt
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 20.07.2007
• EAN: 9780822339830
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3983-0
• Seiten: 320
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Serien: Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific, Culture, Politic; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society; Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politic
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Sonstiges