Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's great earthquake of 1923 Weisenfeld, Gennifer S. (Gennifer Stacy) 1966- creator text bibliography cau Berkeley University of California Press 2012 monographic eng

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xv, 393 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm 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. Gennifer Weisenfeld. Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-367) and index. AAL a-ja--- Arts, Japanese 20th century Themes, motives Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923 Earthquakes in art Arts and society Japan History 20th century Earthquakes Social aspects Japan NX584.A1 W45 2012 704.949952032 9780520271951 2012003245 Ayesha Abed Library DLC 260607 20260804160228.0 45842 eng