Imaging disaster
Subtitle: Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923
By: Gennifer Weisenfeld
Edition: 1st [edition].
Series: Asia: local studies/global themes -- 22
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520271951
Subjects: Earthquakes in art; Themes, motives; History; Japanese Arts; Earthquakes; Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923; Arts and society
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Earthquakes in Japan: a brief prehistory; title: The media scale of catastrophe; title: Disaster as spectacle; title: The sublime nature of ruins; title: Reclaiming disaster: altruism and corrosion; title: Reconstruction's visual rhetoric; title: Remembrance; title: Epilogue: afterlives.