{"product_id":"critical-design-in-japan","title":"Critical Design in Japan","description":"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\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eThe 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.","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54222408778072,"sku":"9781526139979","price":97.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781526139979_eb8a1cb9-fa5f-46b4-8008-048762336c71.jpg?v=1765269029","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/critical-design-in-japan","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}