LEADER 02888nam 22006854a 450 001 9910777995903321 005 20080407035635.0 010 $a1-283-02301-6 010 $a9786613023018 010 $a0-8223-8954-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822389545 035 $a(CKB)1000000000758157 035 $a(EBL)1169885 035 $a(OCoLC)220950259 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000393289 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11294537 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000393289 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10372366 035 $a(PQKB)10466810 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1169885 035 $a220950259 035 $a(OCoLC)1144914557 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse80228 035 $a(DE-B1597)553987 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822389545 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000758157 100 $a20080407d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aKingdom of beauty$b[electronic resource] $emingei and the politics of folk art in Imperial Japan /$fKim Brandt 210 $aDurham $cDuke University Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (319 p.) 225 1 $aAsia-Pacific 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8223-4000-3 311 $a0-8223-3983-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [277]-292) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. 327 $aThe beauty of sorrow -- The discovery of mingei -- New mingei in the 1930s -- Mingei and the wartime state, 1937-1945 -- Renovating Greater East Asia. 330 $aA Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityKingdom of Beauty shows that the discovery of mingei (folk art) by Japanese intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s was central to the complex process by which Japan became both a modern nation and an imperial world power. Kim Brandt's account of the mingei movement locates its origins in colonial Korea, where middle-class Japanese artists and collectors discovered that imperialism offered them special opportunities to amass art objects and gain social, cultural, and even political influence. Later, min 410 0$aAsia-Pacific. 606 $aFolk art$zJapan 606 $aDecorative arts$zJapan 606 $aArt, Japanese$y20th century 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$vArt and the war 615 0$aFolk art 615 0$aDecorative arts 615 0$aArt, Japanese 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945 676 $a745.0952 700 $aBrandt$b Kim$01554253 801 0$bNcD 801 1$bNcD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777995903321 996 $aKingdom of beauty$93815385 997 $aUNINA