Ory Bartal

Critical design in Japan

Material culture, luxury, and the avant-garde

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 822g
• ISBN-13: 9781526139979
• ISBN-10: 1526139979
• Artikelnr.: 57477287

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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