Imaging disaster : Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 /
Weisenfeld, Gennifer S. 1966-
Imaging disaster : Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 / Gennifer Weisenfeld. - California: University of California Press, 2012 - xv, 393 pages : illustrations, 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.
9780520271951 (cloth : alk. paper)
Arts, Japanese--Themes, motives.--20th century
Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923.
Earthquakes in art.
Arts and society--History--Japan--20th century.
Earthquakes--Social aspects--Japan.
704.949952032 / W426i
Imaging disaster : Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 / Gennifer Weisenfeld. - California: University of California Press, 2012 - xv, 393 pages : illustrations, 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.
9780520271951 (cloth : alk. paper)
Arts, Japanese--Themes, motives.--20th century
Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923.
Earthquakes in art.
Arts and society--History--Japan--20th century.
Earthquakes--Social aspects--Japan.
704.949952032 / W426i