Kingdom of beauty : mingei and the politics of folk art in Imperial Japan
Kim Brandt (Author)
A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityKingdom of Beauty shows that the discovery of mingei (folk art) by Japanese intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s was central to the complex process by which Japan became both a modern nation and an imperial world power. Kim Brandt's account of the mingei movement locates its origins in colonial Korea, where middle-class Japanese artists and collectors discovered that imperialism offered them special opportunities to amass art objects and gain social, cultural, and even political influence. Later, min
works of art
1 online resource (x, 306 pages) : illustrations
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Introduction
One The Beauty of Sorrow
Two The Discovery of Mingei
Three New Mingei in the 1930s
Four Mingei and the Wartime State, 1937-1945
Five Renovating Greater East Asia
Epilogue. The beauty of sorrow
The discovery of mingei
New mingei in the 1930s
Mingei and the wartime state, 1937-1945
Renovating Greater East Asia
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2022