Design and modernity in Asia : national identity and transnational exchange 1945-1990

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022 and ©2022

Subject:

Design - Social aspects - Asia - History - 20th century
Modernism (Aesthetics) - Asia
Postcolonialism - Asia
Asia - History - 1945-

Contributor:

Lee, Yunah (Yunah A.), editor, contributor
Rajguru, Megha, editor, contributor
Prakash, Gyan, author of introduction, etc

ISBN:

9781350091481 and 1350091480

Description:

xv, 237 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

Constructing National Identities and Modernizing Lives -- Modernity and Public Spaces -- Modern Living Discourses and Print Cultures -- Transnational Exchanges: Design Across Borders and Introduction. Approaching modern living in Asia, 1945-1990 / Yunah Lee and Megha Rajguru -- Constructing National Identities. 'Japanese modern': a post-war japonisme crusade / Yasuko Suga ; Modernization of Turkey through mid-century modern furniture / Deniz Hasirci and Zeynep Tuna Ultav ; A distanced modernism: identity and authoritarianism via academic campus architecture in East Pakistan 1958-1971 / Ziad Qureshi -- Modernity and Public Spaces. Leisure for the modern citizen: swimming in modern Singapore / Jesse O'Neill and Nadia Wagner ; From hygienic modernity to green modernity: two modes of modern living in Hong Kong since the 1970s / Loretta I.T Lou ; Imagining cultural modernity in the global nation: South Korea and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) / Ilmin Nah -- Modern Living Discourse and Print Cultures. Concrete designs for living proposed by Marg magazine: the materiality and political economy of modernism in India in the early years after independence / Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan ; 'To live or not to live, that is the question': spatial symbolism of apartments in Korean literature of the 1980s / Zhee Won Cha ; Sweet treats and foreign foods: Hanako magazine, food, and the internationalized women of the Japanese bubble economy / Hui-Ying Kerr -- Transnational Exchanges. Cultural politics of the Cold War and living a Shibui life/ / Izumi Kuroishi ; The modern kitchen in Korea: design, modernity and transnationalism/ / Yunah Lee ; Locating modern living: Charles Correa, Asia and the Third World/ / Megha Rajguru,

Summary:

"Addressing histories of modernism, the discourse of modernity and modernisation processes in national and transnational contexts, this book examines different designs for and meanings of 'modern living' across 20th-century Asia. Design and Modernity in Asia contributes to the fast-growing body of literature on postcolonial modernism and non-Western global design history, with particular focus is on post-civil war and postcolonial years in Asia. The book develops methodological approaches to studying Asian modern design history and explores how marginalised individuals and groups encountered or experienced modernity. Most previous research on modernism and modernity in Asia has focused on certain geographical pockets and within particular national boundaries such as China, India and Japan. This book expands the discourse of modernism to include geographical areas or countries in Asia that have been under-explored in scholarly debates such as Bangladesh, Iran, Korea and Turkey. The newly unearthed histories complement and challenge the existing paradigm of modernism debates. Developed from extensive primary research and a great variety of case studies, each chapter in this book illuminates commonalities and particularities of the trajectories of modernism, and their translation and manifestation in Asian living"-- Provided by publisher

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

NK1472 .D47 2022

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