Critical Design in Japan - Material Culture, Luxury, and the Avant-Garde

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Ory Bartal is Head of the Department of Visual and Material Culture at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem

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. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Ory Bartal, Ory (Head of the History and Theory Depart Bartal, Ory (Head of the History and Theory Department) Bartal
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781526139979
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-3997-9
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture; Studies in Design and Material
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Japan, Kunst, allgemein, Art & Art Instruction, DESIGN / History & Criticism, ART / Asian / Japanese