Designing Modern Japan

Designing Modern Japan
Sarah Teasley
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Paperback
h220 x 171mm - 272pg
14 Feb 2022 UK
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9781780232027
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From woodblock prints and porcelains to Hello Kitty, Issey Miyake and the Honda Civic, Japanese design has indelibly marked our everyday life for the past 150 years. This comprehensive history, the first of its kind in English, explains the emergence, development and social, political and economic impact of areas including fashion, graphic, product and automotive design. From Japan' s renewed internationalism in the 19th century to the present day, modern Japanese design is at once a local phenomenon, forged from specific historical conditions in Japan and East Asia, and one with international influences and implications.
"A vibrant and powerful decoding of the modern history of Japan through design. A new and incomparable classic. "--Kashiwagi Hiroshi, professor emeritus, Musashino Art University, Japan, design historian and critic "Teasley' s meticulously detailed account of Japanese design history gives a satisfyingly complete picture of design as a practice that people have--and continue--to use for their own end. "--Elizabeth Guffey, professor of art and design history, theory, criticism at SUNY Purchase, founding editor of Design and Culture "This shrewd and elegantly illustrated book shows how Japanese designers and manufacturers have used design ' to weather change and sometimes as a lever to accelerate change. ' Focusing on their institution-building and meaning-making activities, Teasley traces how a variety of carefully-designed objects and images circulated around Japan, through the empire, and across the globe. The result, like the objects under study, is the narrative they created of Japan itself as transnational, modernist, and enduring. "--Laura Hein, Harold H. and Virginia Anderson Professor of History, Northwestern University, author of Post-Fascist Japan: Political Culture in Kamakura after the Second World War
Sarah Teasley is Professor of Design at RMIT University, Melbourne. She is co-editor of Global Design History (2011).
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ISBN-13: 9781780232027
Published: 14 Feb 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Reaktion Books
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 220mm
Width: 171mm
Pages: 272

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