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

• Autore: Brandt Kim
• Pubblicazione: Durham, : Duke University Press, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (319 p.)
• Disciplina: 745.0952
• Soggetto topico: Folk art - Japan; Decorative arts - Japan; Art, Japanese - 20th century; World War, 1939-1945
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Kingdom of beauty
• ISBN: 1-283-02301-6; 9786613023018; 0-8223-8954-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824909203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: e-Duke books scholarly collection.; Asia-Pacific.