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Critical design in Japan : Material culture, luxury, and the avant-garde / Ory Bartal

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Bartal, Ory
Published
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.
Physical Description
xiii, 233 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm.

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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 Hachiro -- 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.
Summary
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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1526139979 hardback
9781526139979 hardback
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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