Design and Modernity in Asia

National Identity and Transnational Exchange 1945-1990
Herausgeber: Lee, Yunah; Rajguru, Megha

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Produktbeschreibung

This new edited volume of critical essays examines designs for modern living in Asia between 1945 and 1990. Focusing particularly on the post-World War II and postcolonial years, this book advances multidisciplinary knowledge on approaches to and designs for modern living. Developed from extensive primary research and case studies, each essay illuminates commonalities and particularities of the trajectories of Modernism and notions of modernity, their translation and manifestation in life across Asia through design. Authors address everyday negotiations and experiences of being modern by studying exhibitions, architecture, modern interiors, printed ephemera, literary discourses, healthy living movements and transnational networks of modern designers. They examine processes of exchange between people, institutions and with governments, in and across Asia, as well as with the USA and countries in Western Europe. This book highlights the ways in which the production and discourses of modern design were underscored by economic advancement and modernization processes, and fuelled by aesthetic debates on modern design. Critically exploring design for modern living in Asia, this book offers fresh perspectives on Modernism to students and scholars.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781350091481
• ISBN-10: 1350091480
• Artikelnr.: 60075596

Autorenporträt

Yunah Lee is Principal Lecturer and teaches History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton, UK. Her research interests are design history and material culture in Korea and East Asia, transnational and cross-cultural studies of modernity and modernism, representations of national and personal identities, and political agencies and cultural diplomacy of art and design. She is based at the Centre for Design History at the University of Brighton and is a founding member of the Korean Design History Society since 2019. Megha Rajguru is Principal Lecturer and teaches History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton, UK. Her research is in South Asian design history, material and visual culture. She has published articles in the Journal of Design History, Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes, Journal of Museum Ethnography and the Journal of Visual Arts Practice. She is based at the Centre for Design History at the University of Brighton and has recently acted as a Trustee and Teaching and Learning Officer of the Design History Society, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Foreword, Gyan Prakash (Princeton University, USA)
Introduction: Approaching Modern Living in Asia, 1945-1990, Yunah Lee and
Megha Rajguru (University of Brighton, UK)
Constructing National Identities
1. 'Japanese Modern': a Post-War Japonisme Crusade, Yasuko Suga (Tsuda
University, Japan)
2. Modernization of Turkey Through Mid-Century Modern Furniture, Deniz
Hasirci (Izmir University of Economics, Turkey) and Zeynep Tuna Ultav (
Yasar University, Turkey)
3. A Distanced Modernism: Identity and Authoritarianism via Academic Campus
Architecture in East Pakistan 1958-1971, Ziad Qureshi (University of
Houston, USA)
Modernity and Public Spaces
4. Leisure for the Modern Citizen: Swimming in Modern Singapore, Jesse
O'Neill and Nadia Wagner (Glasgow School of Art, UK)
5. From Hygienic Modernity to Green Modernity: Two Modes of Modern Living
in Hong Kong Since the 1970s, Loretta I.T Lou (University of Oxford, UK)
6. Imagining Cultural Modernity in the Global Nation: South Korea and the
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Ilmin Nah (
Université Paris, France)
Modern Living Discourse and Print Cultures
7. Concrete Designs for Living Proposed by Marg Magazine: the Materiality
and Political Economy of Modernism in India in the Early Years after
Independence, Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan (Ambedkar University Delhi, India)
8. 'To Live or Not to Live, That is the Question': Spatial Symbolism of
Apartments in Korean Literature of the 1980s, Zhee Won Cha (Seoul National
University, South Korea)
9. Sweet Treats and Foreign Foods: Hanako Magazine, Food, and the
Internationalized Women of the Japanese Bubble Economy, Hui-Ying Kerr
(Nottingham Trent University, UK)
Transnational Exchanges
10. Cultural Politics of the Cold War and Living a Shibui Life, Izumi
Kuroishi (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)
11. The Modern Kitchen in Korea: Design, Modernity and Transnationalism,
Yunah Lee (University of Brighton, UK)
12. Locating Modern Living: Charles Correa, Asia and the Third World,
Megha Rajguru (University of Brighton, UK)