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Kingdom of beauty : mingei and the politics of folk art in Imperial Japan / Kim Brandt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brandt, Kim.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Asia-Pacific.
- Asia-Pacific
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folk art--Japan.
- Folk art.
- Decorative arts--Japan.
- Decorative arts.
- Art, Japanese--20th century.
- Art, Japanese.
- World War, 1939-1945--Art and the war.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (319 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-292) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613023018
- 9781283023016
- 1283023016
- 9780822389545
- 0822389541
- OCLC:
- 220950259
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