Imaging disaster: Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923
Gennifer Weisenfeld
Imaging disaster: Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923
Author
Gennifer WeisenfeldPublisher
University of California PressEdition 1
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Title and Author
Imaging disaster: Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 / Gennifer WeisenfeldPublication Details
برکلی : University of California Press، 2012مPhysical Description
xv, 393 pages: illustrations, maps; 26 cm.Subject
Arts, Japanese -- 20th century -- Themes, motivesKanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923
Earthquakes in art
Arts and society -- Japan 20th century
Earthquakes -- Social aspects Japan
series
([Asia: local studies/global themes]؛ 22)Language
انگلیسیIncludes bibliographical references )pages 153-763( and index.
Contents
Earthquakes in Japan: a brief prehistory -- The media scale of catastrophe -- Disaster as spectacle -- The sublime nature of ruins -- Reclaiming disaster: altruism and corrosion -- Reconstruction's visual rhetoric -- Remembrance -- Epilogue: afterlives