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Record Nr.

UNINA9910984680603321

Autore

Weisenfeld Gennifer S (Gennifer Stacy), <1966->

Titolo

The fine art of persuasion : corporate advertising design, nation, and empire in modern Japan / / Gennifer Weisenfeld

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Duke University Press, 2025

ISBN

9781478060307

1478060301

Classificazione

ART015000SOC008020

Disciplina

744.0952/0904

Soggetti

Commercial art - Japan - History - 20th century

Graphic arts - Japan - History - 20th century

Design - Japan - History - 20th century

Advertising - Japan - History - 20th century

ART / History / General

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Promoting the profession -- Visible language + the art of letterforms -- Health + beauty -- Food + beverage -- Light, labor + leisure -- Nation + empire -- Transwar design.

Sommario/riassunto

"In The Fine Art of Persuasion, author Gennifer Weisenfeld offers a survey of Japanese advertising graphics from the turn of the twentieth century to the 1964 Tokyo Olympics. Examining Japan as a node in the international design network, Weisenfeld demonstrates the profound impact consumer capitalism and mass culture had on the development of modern Japanese art. Weisenfeld also analyzes the ways in which the militarist regime of Imperial Japan used these same mechanisms of mass culture to commodify and market national politics, especially in the context of the early part of the 20th century before the Asia-Pacific War (WWII)"--