Design and Modernity in Asia
National Identity and Transnational Exchange 1945-1990
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Date of Publication: 20 October 2022
Number of Volumes: Hardback
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| ISBN13: | 9781350091481 |
| ISBN10: | 13500914811 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 256 pages |
| Size: | 234x156 mm |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | 50 bw illus |
| 555 |
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Long description:
This new edited volume of critical essays examines designs for modern living in Asia between 1945 and 1990. Focusing particularly on the post-World War II and postcolonial years, this book advances multidisciplinary knowledge on approaches to and designs for modern living. Developed from extensive primary research and case studies, each essay illuminates commonalities and particularities of the trajectories of Modernism and notions of modernity, their translation and manifestation in life across Asia through design.
Authors address everyday negotiations and experiences of being modern by studying exhibitions, architecture, modern interiors, printed ephemera, literary discourses, healthy living movements and transnational networks of modern designers. They examine processes of exchange between people, institutions and with governments, in and across Asia, as well as with the USA and countries in Western Europe. This book highlights the ways in which the production and discourses of modern design were underscored by economic advancement and modernization processes, and fuelled by aesthetic debates on modern design. Critically exploring design for modern living in Asia, this book offers fresh perspectives on Modernism to students and scholars.
Authors address everyday negotiations and experiences of being modern by studying exhibitions, architecture, modern interiors, printed ephemera, literary discourses, healthy living movements and transnational networks of modern designers. They examine processes of exchange between people, institutions and with governments, in and across Asia, as well as with the USA and countries in Western Europe. This book highlights the ways in which the production and discourses of modern design were underscored by economic advancement and modernization processes, and fuelled by aesthetic debates on modern design. Critically exploring design for modern living in Asia, this book offers fresh perspectives on Modernism to students and scholars.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Contributors
Foreword, Gyan Prakash (Princeton University, USA)
Introduction: Approaching Modern Living in Asia, 1945-1990, Yunah Lee and Megha Rajguru (University of Brighton, UK)
Constructing National Identities
1. 'Japanese Modern': a Post-War Japonisme Crusade, Yasuko Suga (Tsuda University, Japan)
2. Modernization of Turkey Through Mid-Century Modern Furniture, Deniz Hasirci (Izmir University of Economics, Turkey) and Zeynep Tuna Ultav (Yasar University, Turkey)
3. A Distanced Modernism: Identity and Authoritarianism via Academic Campus Architecture in East Pakistan 1958-1971, Ziad Qureshi (University of Houston, USA)
Modernity and Public Spaces
4. Leisure for the Modern Citizen: Swimming in Modern Singapore, Jesse O'Neill and Nadia Wagner (Glasgow School of Art, UK)
5. From Hygienic Modernity to Green Modernity: Two Modes of Modern Living in Hong Kong Since the 1970s, Loretta I.T Lou (University of Oxford, UK)
6. Imagining Cultural Modernity in the Global Nation: South Korea and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Ilmin Nah (Université Paris, France)
Modern Living Discourse and Print Cultures
7. Concrete Designs for Living Proposed by Marg Magazine: the Materiality and Political Economy of Modernism in India in the Early Years after Independence, Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan (Ambedkar University Delhi, India)
8. 'To Live or Not to Live, That is the Question': Spatial Symbolism of Apartments in Korean Literature of the 1980s, Zhee Won Cha (Seoul National University, South Korea)
9. Sweet Treats and Foreign Foods: Hanako Magazine, Food, and the Internationalized Women of the Japanese Bubble Economy, Hui-Ying Kerr (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
Transnational Exchanges
10. Cultural Politics of the Cold War and Living a Shibui Life, Izumi Kuroishi (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)
11. The Modern Kitchen in Korea: Design, Modernity and Transnationalism, Yunah Lee (University of Brighton, UK)
12. Locating Modern Living: Charles Correa, Asia and the Third World, Megha Rajguru (University of Brighton, UK)
List of Contributors
Foreword, Gyan Prakash (Princeton University, USA)
Introduction: Approaching Modern Living in Asia, 1945-1990, Yunah Lee and Megha Rajguru (University of Brighton, UK)
Constructing National Identities
1. 'Japanese Modern': a Post-War Japonisme Crusade, Yasuko Suga (Tsuda University, Japan)
2. Modernization of Turkey Through Mid-Century Modern Furniture, Deniz Hasirci (Izmir University of Economics, Turkey) and Zeynep Tuna Ultav (Yasar University, Turkey)
3. A Distanced Modernism: Identity and Authoritarianism via Academic Campus Architecture in East Pakistan 1958-1971, Ziad Qureshi (University of Houston, USA)
Modernity and Public Spaces
4. Leisure for the Modern Citizen: Swimming in Modern Singapore, Jesse O'Neill and Nadia Wagner (Glasgow School of Art, UK)
5. From Hygienic Modernity to Green Modernity: Two Modes of Modern Living in Hong Kong Since the 1970s, Loretta I.T Lou (University of Oxford, UK)
6. Imagining Cultural Modernity in the Global Nation: South Korea and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Ilmin Nah (Université Paris, France)
Modern Living Discourse and Print Cultures
7. Concrete Designs for Living Proposed by Marg Magazine: the Materiality and Political Economy of Modernism in India in the Early Years after Independence, Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan (Ambedkar University Delhi, India)
8. 'To Live or Not to Live, That is the Question': Spatial Symbolism of Apartments in Korean Literature of the 1980s, Zhee Won Cha (Seoul National University, South Korea)
9. Sweet Treats and Foreign Foods: Hanako Magazine, Food, and the Internationalized Women of the Japanese Bubble Economy, Hui-Ying Kerr (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
Transnational Exchanges
10. Cultural Politics of the Cold War and Living a Shibui Life, Izumi Kuroishi (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)
11. The Modern Kitchen in Korea: Design, Modernity and Transnationalism, Yunah Lee (University of Brighton, UK)
12. Locating Modern Living: Charles Correa, Asia and the Third World, Megha Rajguru (University of Brighton, UK)
