The Fine Art of Persuasion : Corporate Advertising Design, Nation, and Empire in Modern Japan

Weisenfeld, Gennifer

doi:10.1215/9781478060307

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Weisenfeld, Gennifer

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Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME)

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English

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Abstract

Gennifer Weisenfeld examines the evolution of Japanese advertising graphic design from the early 1900s through the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, a pivotal design event that rebranded Japan on the world stage.

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https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/153480

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design history;graphic history;commercial art;Japanese advertising;transwar design;Japanese commercial art;mass media;design discourse;design criticism;visible languages;writing systems;typography;beauty culture;Morinaga;commercial advertising and political propaganda;1960 World Design Conference Tokyo; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art; thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia::1FP East Asia, Far East::1FPJ Japan; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies; thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1F Asia