MAVO - Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1931

A study in English on Mavo, provides a critical evaluation of this often outrageous and iconoclastic movement, tracing Mavo's relationship to broader developments in modernism worldwide. It offers a look into Japanese popular culture by showing how Mavo artists sought to transform Japanese art in response to the rise of industrialism.

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A study in English on Mavo, provides a critical evaluation of this often outrageous and iconoclastic movement, tracing Mavo's relationship to broader developments in modernism worldwide. It offers a look into Japanese popular culture by showing how Mavo artists sought to transform Japanese art in response to the rise of industrialism.

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• Authors: Gennifer Weisenfeld, Gennifer S. Weisenfeld
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.02.2002
• EAN: 9780520223387
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22338-7
• No. of pages: 379
• Series: Twentieth-century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power S.; Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power; Twentieth Century Japan: The Emergence of a World Power
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art