Critical design in Japan

Critical design in Japan
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 392
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ISBN-10 : 9781526140012
ISBN-13 : 1526140012
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Book Synopsis Critical design in Japan by : Ory Bartal

Download or read book Critical design in Japan written by Ory Bartal and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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