Title: Glorify the Empire
Description: "In the 1930s and '40s, Japanese political architects of the Manchukuo project in occupied northeast China realized the importance of using various cultural media to promote a modernization program in the region, as well as its expansion into other parts of Asia. Ironically, the writers and artists chosen to spread this imperialist message had left-wing political roots in Japan, where their work strongly favoured modernist, even avant-garde, styles of expression. In Glorify the Empire, Annika Culver explores how these once anti-imperialist intellectuals produced modernist works celebrating the modernity of a fascist state and reflecting a complicated picture of complicity with, and ambivalence towards, Japan's utopian project. During the war, literary and artistic representations of Manchuria accelerated, and the Japanese-led culture in Manchukuo served as a template for occupied areas in Southeast Asia. A groundbreaking work, Glorify the Empire magnifies the intersection between politics and art in a rarely examined period in Japanese history."--Publisher's website.
Subjects: Propaganda, japanese, Arts, china, World war, 1939-1945, china, Artists, japan, Modernism (art), Art and state, Avant-garde (aesthetics), Japanese Propaganda, History, Arts, World War, 1939-1945, Propaganda, Art and the war, Artists, Propaganda in art, Propagande japonaise, Histoire, Aspect politque, Avant-garde (Esthétique), Aspect politique, Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945, Propagande, Art et guerre, Artistes, Propagande dans l'art, Political aspects