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Imaging disaster : Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 / Gennifer Weisenfeld.

By: Weisenfeld, Gennifer S. (Gennifer Stacy), 1966-Material type: TextTextSeries: [Asia: local studies/global themes ; 22]Publication details: California: University of California Press, 2012 Description: xv, 393 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cmISBN: 9780520271951 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Arts, Japanese -- 20th century -- Themes, motives | Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923 | Earthquakes in art | Arts and society -- Japan -- History -- 20th century | Earthquakes -- Social aspects -- JapanDDC classification: 704.949952032
Contents:
Earthquakes in Japan: a brief prehistory -- The media scale of catastrophe -- Disaster as spectacle -- The sublime nature of ruins -- Reclaiming disaster: altruism and corrosion -- Reconstruction's visual rhetoric -- Remembrance -- Epilogue: afterlives.
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Read Japan Project 		704.949952032 W426i (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2012 01 Available G000534
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-367) and index.

Earthquakes in Japan: a brief prehistory -- The media scale of catastrophe -- Disaster as spectacle -- The sublime nature of ruins -- Reclaiming disaster: altruism and corrosion -- Reconstruction's visual rhetoric -- Remembrance -- Epilogue: afterlives.

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