Critical design in Japan Material culture, luxury, and the avant-garde /
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 p...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2020
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE
Studies in design and material culture |
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| 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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| Item Description: | Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 online resource (xiii, 233 pages) : ) color illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [214]-225) and index |
| ISBN: | 1526139987 9781526139979 9781526139986 |
| Access: | Access restricted to authorized users and institutions |