Imaging disaster : Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 / Gennifer Weisenfeld.
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TextSeries: [Asia: local studies/global themes ; 22]Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]Description: xv, 393 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780520271951 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Arts, Japanese -- 20th century -- Themes, motives | Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923 | Earthquakes in art | Arts and society -- Japan -- History -- 20th century | Earthquakes -- Social aspects -- JapanDDC classification: 704.949952032 LOC classification: NX584.A1 | W45 2012
Contents:
Earthquakes in Japan: a brief prehistory -- The media scale of catastrophe -- Disaster as spectacle -- The sublime nature of ruins -- Reclaiming disaster: altruism and corrosion -- Reconstruction's visual rhetoric -- Remembrance -- Epilogue: afterlives.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-367) and index.
Earthquakes in Japan: a brief prehistory -- The media scale of catastrophe -- Disaster as spectacle -- The sublime nature of ruins -- Reclaiming disaster: altruism and corrosion -- Reconstruction's visual rhetoric -- Remembrance -- Epilogue: afterlives.
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