The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s

The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s

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The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s

The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s

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The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s

The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s

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Hardcover | 23.62 x 2.54 x 24.64 cm | 208 pp

MFA Publications | 2012 | 9780878467693 

Modernity took many forms in 1930s Japan, but in the tumultuous years before militarism pushed the country toward global aggression, it was most visibly associated with a glittering consumer culture. Inundated with western jazz-age trends and new technologies, Japan’s big cities, especially Tokyo, offered the most enticing attractions to a newly liberated generation: bustling streets of department stores, cafés and teahouses, movie theatres and ballroom dance halls. Modern architecture, industrial design and fashion overshadowed traditional arts as Japan strove to take its place in a cosmopolitan world. 

The Brittle Years examines the different ways in which designers and artists visualised what it meant to be modern in Japan in the years leading up to World War II. Its 160 full-colour illustrations of paintings, textiles and graphic arts are astonishing not only for their great visual impact but also for the insight they provide into a rapidly transforming nation. Among the more surprising images are kimonos bearing patterns of tanks or futuristic cityscapes, paintings of fashionable Japanese women with bobbed hair in western dress and handbills of factory and agricultural workers joined in solidarity.

Essays by leading experts on Japanese art and history, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning author John W. Dower, elucidate the many tensions within Japanese society and show how and why such images of power, progress, and beauty helped the nation celebrate and divert modernity to new purposes during these brittle years.

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