Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan by Kim Brandt

Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan

Kim Brandt

nonfiction art history informative reflective medium-paced

320 pages | first published 2007

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A Study of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia UniversityKingdom of Beauty shows that the discovery of mingei (folk art) by Japanese intellectuals in the 1920s and 1930s was central to the complex process by which Japan became both a mo...
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