Bartal Critical design in Japan

Material culture, luxury, and the avant-garde
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3998-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Design and Material Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bartal, Ory

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile Asiatische Kunst
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Design: Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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