02966nam 22007214a 450 991082490920332120080407035635.01-283-02301-697866130230180-8223-8954-110.1515/9780822389545(CKB)1000000000758157(EBL)1169885(OCoLC)220950259(SSID)ssj0000393289(PQKBManifestationID)11294537(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000393289(PQKBWorkID)10372366(PQKB)10466810(MiAaPQ)EBC1169885220950259(OCoLC)1144914557(MdBmJHUP)muse80228(DE-B1597)553987(DE-B1597)9780822389545(EXLCZ)99100000000075815720080407d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrKingdom of beauty mingei and the politics of folk art in Imperial Japan /Kim BrandtDurham Duke University Press20071 online resource (319 p.)Asia-PacificDescription based upon print version of record.0-8223-4000-3 0-8223-3983-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-292) and index.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.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, mine-Duke books scholarly collection.Asia-Pacific.Folk artJapanDecorative artsJapanArt, Japanese20th centuryWorld War, 1939-1945Art and the warFolk artDecorative artsArt, JapaneseWorld War, 1939-1945745.0952745.0952Brandt Kim1673260MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910824909203321Kingdom of beauty4037233UNINA