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Imaging Disaster
Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923
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eBook - ePub
Imaging Disaster
Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923
About this book
Focusing on one landmark catastrophic event in the history of an emerging modern nationâthe Great Kanto Earthquake that devastated Tokyo and surrounding areas in 1923âthis fascinating volume examines the history of the visual production of the disaster. The Kanto earthquake triggered cultural responses that ran the gamut from voyeuristic and macabre thrill to the romantic sublime, media spectacle to sacred space, mournful commemoration to emancipatory euphoria, and national solidarity to racist vigilantism and sociopolitical critique. Looking at photography, cinema, painting, postcards, sketching, urban planning, and even scientific visualizations, Weisenfeld demonstrates how visual culture has powerfully mediated the evolving historical understanding of this major national disaster, ultimately enfolding mourning and memory into modernization.
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Art généralTable of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Earthquakes in Japan: A Brief Prehistory
- 2 The Media Scale of Catastrophe
- 3 Disaster as Spectacle
- 4 The Sublime Nature of Ruins
- 5 Reclaiming Disaster: Altruism and Corrosion
- 6 Reconstructionâs Visual Rhetoric
- 7 Remembrance
- 8 Epilogue: Afterlives
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- List of Illustrations
- Index
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