A01=Ory Bartal
Author_Ory Bartal
Avant-garde
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Comme des Garcons
Critical design
Digital design
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Japan
Material culture
Mujirushi Ryohin
Postmodern design
Social design
Visual culture
Product details
- ISBN 9781526139979
- Weight: 753g
- Dimensions: 170 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jul 2020
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book tells the story of critical avant-garde design in Japan, which emerged during the 1960s and continues to inspire designers today. The practice communicates a form of visual and material protest drawing on the ideologies and critical theories of the 1960s and 1970s, notably feminism, body politics, the politics of identity, and ecological, anti-consumerist and anti-institutional critiques, as well as the concept of otherness. It also presents an encounter between two seemingly contradictory concepts: luxury and the avant-garde. The book challenges the definition of design as the production of unnecessary decorative and conceptual objects, and the characterisation of Japanese design in particular as beautiful, sublime or a product of ‘Japanese culture’. In doing so it reveals the ways in which material and visual culture serve to voice protest and formulate a social critique.
Ory Bartal is Head of the Department of Visual and Material Culture at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
