Critical Design in Japan : Material Culture, Luxury, and the Avant-Garde Hardback
by Ory (Head of the History and Theory Department) Bartal
Part of the Studies in Design and Material Culture series
Hardback
Description
This book tells the story of critical avant-garde design in Japan, which emerged during the 1960s and continues to inspire designers today.
The practice communicates a form of visual and material protest drawing on the ideologies and critical theories of the 1960s and 1970s, notably feminism, body politics, the politics of identity, and ecological, anti-consumerist and anti-institutional critiques, as well as the concept of otherness.
It also presents an encounter between two seemingly contradictory concepts: luxury and the avant-garde.
The book challenges the definition of design as the production of unnecessary decorative and conceptual objects, and the characterisation of Japanese design in particular as beautiful, sublime or a product of ‘Japanese culture’.
In doing so it reveals the ways in which material and visual culture serve to voice protest and formulate a social critique. -- .
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages, 57 colour illustrations
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:03/07/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781526139979
Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:248 pages, 57 colour illustrations
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:03/07/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781526139979
