Kingdom of beauty [[electronic resource] ] : mingei and the politics of folk art in Imperial Japan / / Kim Brandt

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777995903321
• Autore: Brandt Kim
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 1-283-02301-6; 9786613023018; 0-8223-8954-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (319 p.)
• Collana: Asia-Pacific
• Disciplina: 745.0952
• Soggetti: Folk art - Japan; Decorative arts - Japan; Art, Japanese - 20th century; World War, 1939-1945
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-292) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- One The Beauty of Sorrow -- Two The Discovery of Mingei -- Three New Mingei in the 1930s -- Four Mingei and the Wartime State, 1937-1945 -- Five Renovating Greater East Asia -- Epilogue.; The beauty of sorrow -- The discovery of mingei -- New mingei in the 1930s -- Mingei and the wartime state, 1937-1945 -- Renovating Greater East Asia.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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

Let me tell you where I've been : new writing by women of the Iranian diaspora / / edited by Persis M. Karim

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910815077803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Fayetteville, : University of Arkansas Press, 2006
• ISBN: 1-61075-233-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (383 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): KarimPersis M
• Disciplina: 810.8/092870899155
• Soggetti: American literature - Iranian American authors; American literature - Women authors; American literature - 20th century; American literature - 21st century; Iranian Americans
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "In association with the Iran Heritage Foundation."
• Nota di contenuto: ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""CONTENTS""; ""FOREWORD""; ""GRTITUDES""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Home Stories""; ""Autumn Letter""; ""Home Stories""; ""Dokhtar-e Amrika-i""; ""Dokhtar-e Irani""; ""Separation""; ""The Sun Is a Dying Star""; ""En Route to Persepolis""; ""Timing""; ""Against the Kitchen White Wall""; ""Road Trip""; ""The Break""; ""Home""; ""Persian Princess Insania""; ""Naderi""; ""Where Does My Language Lie?""; ""Inheritance""; ""Revolution 1979""; ""Portland, Oregon 1979""; ""With a Little Help from My Friends""; ""Another Quiet New Year""; ""My Brother at the Canadian Border""; ""1979""; ""Captions""""Arrivals and Departures""; ""From To See and See Again: A Life in Iran and America""; ""For Tradition""; ""For Tradition""; ""Sister""; ""Twin""; ""The Persian Bath""; ""A Love Song""; ""Pomegranates""; ""Passover""; ""ajun""; ""Next Year in Cyprus""; ""Recovery""; ""Babaâ€?s Passingâ€?February 2005""; ""Joys of a Simple Meal""; ""Raw Walnuts""; ""The Camel and the Cantaloupe""; ""Ode to the Eggplant""; ""Torches""; ""Womanâ€?s Duty""; ""Avenue Vali Asr""; ""Womanâ€?s Duty""; ""The Next Day Is Always So Still""; ""Waiting for Ulysses""; ""The woman has veto power""; ""On the Rooftop""""If You Change Your Nose""; ""Iranian Women""; ; ""Love in a Time of Struggle""; ""Becoming a Woman""; ""The World Was a Couple""; ""The Gift""; ""The Execution of Atefeh""; ""Bad""; ""Summoning""; ""Masouleh""; ""Words to Die For""; ""Faribaâ€?s Daughters""; ""Axis of Evil""; ""Lower Manhattan""; ""Another Day and Counting""; ""Axis of Evil""; ""How Lucky Persimmons Are""; ""Mamaan-bozorg""; ""In the Gutter""; ""The Witness""; ""American Again""; ""Butcher Shop""; ""Iranians v. Persians""; ""Invitation to the Hungry Ghosts""; ""When Toys Are Us""; ""As Good as Any Other Day""""Dawn on the Fall Equinox""; ""Instilling Shock and Awe""; ""Summer Day""; ""Beyond""; ""Sestinelle for Travelers""; ""The Best Reason to Write a Poem Is Still for Love""; ""Perfectly Parallel Mirrors""; ""Money Buys""; ""Once""; ""From Stones in the Garden""; ""Stripes""; ""Magical Chair of Nails""; ""Us Four""; ""The Eglantine Deal""; ""The Sandcastle""; ""Ghazal""; ""Mandala at Manzanar""; ""Beyond""; ""Only the Blue Remains Unchanged""; ""Tales Left Untold""; ""Night Conversations (Deep Are These Distances)""; ""Do You Miss Me?""; ""Lost Karbala""; ""Sing""; ""Earth and Water""""Tales Left Untold""; ""Because of Hands and Bread""; ""Soleimanâ€?s Silence""; ""Standing in a Mosque Contemplating Faith""; ""Sabze""; ""Years Later""; ""Native""; ""Unpacking""; ""Blessing""; ""Green World through Broken Glass""; ""A Return""; ""Blood""; ""13 Days""; ""Ari""; ""Let Me Tell You Where Iâ€?ve Been""; ""Cardamom and Hell""; ""Nazr""; ""CONTRIBUTORS""