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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824909203321

Autore

Brandt Kim

Titolo

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

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