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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Fran Lloyd |
ISBN: | 1861891474 9781861891471 |
OCLC Number: | 50271138 |
Description: | 224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm |
Contents: | Sex and consumerism in Edo Japan / Timon Screech -- Sex and consumerism : the Japanese state of the arts / Nicholas Bornoff -- Strategic interventions in contemporary Japanese art / Fran Lloyd -- 'Made in occupied Japan' -- performance / BuBu and Yoshiko Shimada -- Post-identity Kawaii : commerce, gender and contemporary Japanese art / Yuko Hasegawa -- The place of marginal positionality : legacies of Japanese anti-modernity / Midori Matsui -- Tokyo's urban and sexual transformations : performance art and digital cultures / Stephen Barber -- Afterword : Japanese pop culture and the eradication of history / Yoshiko Shimada. |
Responsibility: | edited by Fran Lloyd. |
Abstract:
Explores the themes of sex and consumerism in Japanese art and how they connect with the wider historical, social and political conditions in Japanese culture. This title examines the contradictions and ambivalences embedded in the Japanese experience of modernity, and the effects of commodification on the individual and the nation state.
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a beautifully produced book The Guardian To sum up this provocative and fascinating book in a short review is virtually impossible ... a considerable contribution to our understanding of a complex and important new world of art. Contemporary Asian Culture Read more...
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- Art, Japanese -- 20th century.
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- Sex in art.
- Consumption (Economics) in art.
- Art japonais -- 20e siècle.
- Art japonais -- 21e siècle.
- Sexualité dans l'art.
- Consommation (Économie politique) dans l'art.
- 20.43 Japanese art.
- Art, Japanese.
- Beeldende kunsten.
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