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Title Design and modernity in Asia : national identity and transnational exchange 1945-1990 / edited by Yunah Lee and Megha Rajguru
Published London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022
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Contents Constructing National Identities and Modernizing Lives -- Modernity and Public Spaces -- Modern Living Discourses and Print Cultures -- Transnational Exchanges: Design Across Borders
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Design -- Social aspects -- Asia -- History -- 20th century
Modernism (Aesthetics) -- Asia
Postcolonialism -- Asia
Modernism (Aesthetics)
National characteristics.
Asia.
Form Electronic book
Author Lee, Yunah (Yunah A.), editor
Rajguru, Megha, editor
Prakash, Gyan, 1952- writer of introduction
LC no. 2022013397
ISBN 9781350091474
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