Isbn: 9780878467693 - the brittle decade: visualizing japan in the 1930s (12 risultati)

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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st. Cloth, 205 pages, colour illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. *** "Modernity took many forms in 1930s Japan, but in the tumultuous years before militarism pushed the country toward global aggression, it was most visibly associated with a glittering consumer culture. Inundated with western jazz-age trends and new technologies, Japan's big cities, especially Tokyo, offered the most enticing attractions to a newly liberated generation: bustling streets of department stores, cafe s and teahouses, movie theaters and ballroom dance halls. Modern architecture, industrial design and fashion overshadowed traditional arts as Japan strove to take its place in a cosmopolitan world. The Brittle Years examines the different ways in which designers and artists visualized what it meant to be modern in Japan in the years leading up to World War II. Its 160 full-colour illustrations of paintings, textiles and graphic arts are astonishing not only for their great visual impact but also for the insight they provide into a rapidly transforming nation. Among the more surprising images are kimonos bearing patterns of tanks or futuristic cityscapes, paintings of fashionable Japanese women with bobbed hair in western dress and handbills of factory and agricultural workers joined in solidarity. Essays by leading experts on Japanese art and history, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning author John W. Dower, elucidate the many tensions within Japanese society and show how and why such images of power, progress, and beauty helped the nation celebrate and divert modernity to new purposes during these brittle years." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Modernity and militarism, by John W. Dower; Modern girls in the palace of lyrical elegance, by Anne Nishimura Morse; Wearing novelty, by Jacqueline M. Atkins; Sho wa sophistication, by Frederic A. Sharf. Size: 8vo. Collectible.…

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gebunden. Condizione: Neu. Neu -Die Ankunft der Moderne im Japan der 30er Jahre zeigt sich am deutlichsten im Entstehen einer neuen glitzernden Konsumwelt. Überschwemmt von Jazzmusik und neuen Technologien, boten japanische Großstädte, insbesondere Tokio, neue und aufregende Attraktionen für eine sich von alten Traditionen befreiende, junge Generation. In den geschäftigen Straßen reihten sich die Warenhäuser, Cafés, Teehäuser, Kinos und Tanzetablissements aneinander. Moderne Architektur, neue industrielle Produkte und die westliche Mode überschatteten die traditionelle Kunst, als Japan auf dem Weg war, einen eigenen Platz in der Welt zu finden. Dieser Band zeigt, wie japanische Designer und Künstler in der Zeit bis zum Beginn des Zweiten Weltkriegs ihr jeweiliges Verständnis von Moderne zum Ausdruck brachten. Hervorragend illustriert, zeigt das Buch in Abbildungen Beispiele der Malerei, Kleidung und Grafik. Auf äußert anschauliche Art wird dadurch der atemberaubende Wandel einer traditionellen Gesellschaft verdeutlicht. Die beigefügten Essays beschäftigen sich mit dem Zusammentreffen von westlichem Kosmopolitismus und traditioneller japanischer Gesellschaft, das nicht reibungslos verlief. Am deutlichsten wird dieser Umbruch am Beispiel der »madan garu«, der modernen Frau. Junge Japanerinnen kleideten sich wie Frauen in New York, rauchten wie Pariserinnen, gingen arbeiten und nahmen es mit der Treue nicht mehr ganz so genau. Abgelehnt hingegen wurde das überkommene japanische Frauenbild der guten Ehefrau und weisen Mutter. (Text engl.) 208 pp. Englisch.…

Condizione: Sehr gut. Erstauflage / First Edition. Bll. + 205 S. inkl. Anhang mit u.a. Index, u. mit 180 farbig. Illustrationen (Grafiken.). Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1090 Mittl.-4° (24, 8 x 23, 6 cm), O(Grau)-GanzLnw. (cloth) mit silbergepr.-Rückentitel u. OIll.-Umschlag. Seht gut erhalten (ungelesen).…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Modernity took many forms in 1930s Japan, but in the tumultuous years before militarism pushed the country toward global aggression, it was most visibly associated with a glittering consumer culture. Inundated with western jazz-age trends and new technologies, Japan's big cities, especially Tokyo, offered the most enticing attractions to a newly liberated generation: bustling streets of department stores, cafà s and teahouses, movie theaters and ballroom dance halls. Modern architecture, industrial design and fashion overshadowed traditional arts as Japan strove to take its place in a cosmopolitan world. The Brittle Years examines the different ways in which designers and artists visualized what it meant to be modern in Japan in the years leading up to World War II. Its 160 full-color illustrations of paintings, textiles and graphic arts are astonishing not only for their great visual impact but also for the insight they provide into a rapidly transforming nation. Among the more surprising images are kimonos bearing patterns of tanks or futuristic cityscapes, paintings of fashionable Japanese women with bobbed hair in western dress and handbills of factory and agricultural workers joined in solidarity. Essays by leading experts on Japanese art and history, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning author John W. Dower, elucidate the many tensions within Japanese society and show how and why such images of power, progress, and beauty helped the nation celebrate and divert modernity to new purposes during these brittle years. (20120601).…