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• Title:Deco Japan : shaping art & culture, 1920-1945 / Kendall H. Brown, editor ; essays by Tim Benton [and others].
  
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• Variant Title:Shaping art and culture, 1920-1945
  
• Author/Creator:Brown, Kendall H., author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Machiko, Takanami.
  Japan Society (New York, N.Y.). Gallery.
  John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.
  Society of the Four Arts.
  
• Published/Created:Alexandria, Va. : Art Services International, 2012.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N7355.5.A76 B76 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Levenson, Bob, Dr.--Art collections--Exhibitions.
  Levenson, Mary--Art collections--Exhibitions.
  Art deco--Japan--Exhibitions.
  Art, Japanese--20th century--Exhibitions.
  Art--Private collections--United States--Exhibitions.
  
• Description:319 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
  
• Summary:"The vitality of urban Japan in the 1920s and 1930s is expressed through works of art and visual culture that may be grouped under the rubric of art deco. Using nearly 200 objects ranging from matchbook labels to grand paintings, and focusing on works exhibited in Japan's national exhibitions, Deco Japan traces a chapter in Japanese modernism that signals simultaneously the nation's claims to a unique history and its cosmopolitanism. Major themes include both the rise of moga, or modern girl, a barometer of social freedom and cultural realignment, and nationalism, manifest in imperial glory and military strength."--Cover flap.
  
• Notes:Catalog of an exhibition held at the Japan Society Gallery, New York, N.Y., Mar. 16-June 17, 2012, the John and Mable Ringing Museum, Sarasota, Fla., July 14- Sept. 30, 2012, and the Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, Fla., Nov. 9-Jan. 19, 2014.
  Includes bibliographical references (page 305) and index.
  
• ISBN:0883971577 (pbk.)
  9780883971574 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Japan and "Art Deco" / Kendall H. Brown
  Art Deco and japonisme / Tim Benton
  On "things Japanese" in the 1930s / Takanami Machiko
  The craftsman's utopia / Kitamura Hitomi
  The modern girl : icon of modernity / Vera Mackie
  Catalogue. Cultural appropriations ; Formal manipulations: abstract forms ; Formal manipulations: natural motifs ; Over and under the sea ; Social expressions: nationalism ; Social expressions: the floating world transformed ; The cultured home.