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

Weisenfeld, Gennifer S.

Imaging disaster : Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 / Gennifer Weisenfeld. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012. - xv, 393 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. - [Asia: local studies/global themes ; 22] .

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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Arts, Japanese--Themes, motives.--20th century
Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923.
Earthquakes in art.
Arts and society--History--Japan--20th century.
Earthquakes--Social aspects--Japan.

NX584 / .A1W45 2012

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