{"product_id":"9781526139979","title":"Critical design in Japan","description":"Author: Ory Bartal\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781526139979\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 03 Jul 2020\u003cbr\u003ePages: 248 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. The 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. -- .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47920492609694,"sku":"ING-9781526139979","price":194.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781526139979.jpg?v=1782822020","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781526139979","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}