Critical design in Japan : material culture, luxury, and the avant-garde /
This book tells the story of critical avant-garde design in Japan. It challenge the characterisation of Japanese design as beautiful, sublime or a simple product of 'Japanese culture', and reveal the ways in which material and visual culture can serve to voice protest and formulate social...
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Manchester [UK] : Manchester University Press, [2020] |
| Series: | Studies in design and material culture.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Postmodern critiques, Japan's economic miracle, and the new aesthetic milieu
- The 1968 social uprising and subversive advertising design in Japan : the work of Ishioka Eiko and Suzuki Hachirō
- From cute to Rei Kawakubo : fashion and protest
- Mujirushi Ryohin and the absence of style
- Hironen and the representation of the other
- Digital design as social and critical design in the twenty-first century.