UID:
almafu_9959677650702883
Format:
1 online resource (319 p.)
ISBN:
1-283-02301-6
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9786613023018
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0-8223-8954-1
Series Statement:
Asia-Pacific
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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.
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The beauty of sorrow -- The discovery of mingei -- New mingei in the 1930s -- Mingei and the wartime state, 1937-1945 -- Renovating Greater East Asia.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-4000-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8223-3983-8
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.1515/9780822389545
URL:
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