Critical Design in Japan - Material Culture, Luxury, and the Avant-Garde (Hardcover)

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. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies in Design and Material Culture
Release date:	July 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Ory Bartal (Head of the History and Theory Department)
Dimensions:	240 x 170 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-1-5261-3997-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Industrial / commercial art & design > Fashion design Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > General
LSN:	1-5261-3997-9
Barcode:	9781526139979

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