Weisenfeld, Gennifer S. 1966-

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.
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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.


Electronic books.

NX584.A1 / W45 2012eb

704.9/49952032