Modan: The City, the Body, and Gender in Interwar Japan.
Picquier| N° d'inventaire | 23504 |
| Format | 14 x 23 |
| Détails | 305 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Arles, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782809715439 |
Between the second half of the 1920s and the early 1930s, modan, or Japanese modernism, revolutionized urban culture and lifestyles in Japan. Modan (from the English modern) denoted the height of novelty in a post-traditional world influenced by capitalism.
Modan left its mark on art, architecture, literature, and philosophy. But thanks to mass media, it also infused the daily lives of the emerging middle class. It was embodied in avant-garde thinking and morals that celebrated the fleeting nature of the present moment and took mass consumption and the American way of life as models.
This interdisciplinary work, which brings together contributions from specialists in Japanese studies, presents the forms that this everyday culture took in the urban space of the Japanese "Roaring Twenties." It explores in particular the relationship to the body and gender, and beyond a light and frivolous appearance, the possible links that modan may have had with the rise of militarism.
Between the second half of the 1920s and the early 1930s, modan, or Japanese modernism, revolutionized urban culture and lifestyles in Japan. Modan (from the English modern) denoted the height of novelty in a post-traditional world influenced by capitalism.
Modan left its mark on art, architecture, literature, and philosophy. But thanks to mass media, it also infused the daily lives of the emerging middle class. It was embodied in avant-garde thinking and morals that celebrated the fleeting nature of the present moment and took mass consumption and the American way of life as models.
This interdisciplinary work, which brings together contributions from specialists in Japanese studies, presents the forms that this everyday culture took in the urban space of the Japanese "Roaring Twenties." It explores in particular the relationship to the body and gender, and beyond a light and frivolous appearance, the possible links that modan may have had with the rise of militarism.