Kingdom of beauty
Subtitle: mingei and the politics of folk art in Imperial Japan
By: Kim Brandt.
Series: Asia-pacific: culture, politics, and society
Publisher: Duke University Press; Duke University Press Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780822339830; 9780822340003
Subjects: Folk art -- Japan; Decorative arts -- Japan; Art, Japanese -- 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The beauty of sorrow; title: The discovery of mingei; title: New mingei in the 1930s; title: Mingei and the wartime state, 1937-1945; title: Renovating Greater East Asia.