{"product_id":"critical-design-in-japan-material-culture-luxury-and-the-avant-garde-9781526139979","title":"Critical Design in Japan: Material Culture, Luxury, and the Avant-Garde","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ory Bartal\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Asian - Japanese\u003c\/p\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":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46454640509079,"sku":"9781526139979","price":9504.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781526139979.webp?v=1769172175","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/critical-design-in-japan-material-culture-luxury-and-the-avant-garde-9781526139979","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}