Imaging disaster Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 / [electronic resource] :
Gennifer Weisenfeld.
- 1st [ed.].
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.
- xv, 393 p. : ill., maps.
- Asia--local studies/global themes ; 22 .
- Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint .
Includes bibliographical references 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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Arts, Japanese--Themes, motives.--20th century Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923. Earthquakes in art. Arts and society--History--Japan--20th century. Earthquakes--Social aspects--Japan.