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

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A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityKingdom of Beauty shows that the discovery of mingei (folk art) by Japanese intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s was central to the complex process by which Japan became both a modern nation and an imperial world power. Kim Brandt&#...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Brandt, Kim (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Yanagi Soētsu, > 1889-1961.
World War, 1939-1945 > Art and the war.
Art, Japanese > 20th century.
Decorative arts > Japan.
Folk art > Japan.
Folk art.
Decorative arts.
Art, Japanese.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
CRAFTS & HOBBIES > Folkcrafts.
ART > Folk & Outsider Art.
20.43 Japanese art.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Art et guerre.
Art japonais > 20e siecle.
Arts decoratifs > Japon.
Art populaire > Japon.
Japan.
Oeuvres d'art.
Art.
works of art.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityKingdom of Beauty shows that the discovery of mingei (folk art) by Japanese intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s was central to the complex process by which Japan became both a modern nation and an imperial world power. Kim Brandt's account of the mingei movement locates its origins in colonial Korea, where middle-class Japanese artists and collectors discovered that imperialism offered them special opportunities to amass art objects and gain social, cultural, and even political influence. Later, min.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (318 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780822389545

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