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Critical design in Japan : material culture, luxury, and the avant-garde

Ory Bartal (Author)
This book tells the story of critical avant-garde design in Japan. It challenge the characterisation of Japanese design as beautiful, sublime or a simple product of 'Japanese culture', and reveal the ways in which material and visual culture can serve to voice protest and formulate social critique

eBook, English, 2020
Manchester University Press, Manchester [UK], 2020