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The art of persistence : Akamatsu Toshiko and the visual cultures of transwar Japan /

"Examines the relations between art and politics in transwar Japan, exploring these via a microhistory of the artist, memoirist, and activist Akamatsu Toshiko (also known as Maruki Toshi, 1912-2000). Addresses major events in modern Japanese history, including colonization and empire, war, the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eubanks, Charlotte D. (Charlotte Diane), 1971- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Akamatsu Toshiko, microhistory, and the art of persistence in transwar Japan
  • From "Northern Gate" to "Southern Advance" : envisioning the north-south expansion of colonial Japan
  • Creating "Culture for little countrymen" : the total mobilization of Toshi's micronesian experience
  • Red shift : pre-1945 visual culture, heterochronicity, and proletarian eastern time
  • Bare naked aesthetics: postwar arts and Toshi's populist manifesto
  • Art as war crime: artistic wartime responsibility and the international military tribunal for the Far East
  • Art as direct action: Hiroshima and the Nuclear Panels
  • Afterword. Double time and the art of seeing through empire.