Mingei and the Emergence of Japanese Folk-Modernism
Led by Kim Brandt.
When: Friday, May 9, 2008, 4 p.m.
Where: Marine Sciences Insitute Auditorium, UCSB.
Cost: Free
Age limit: Not available
Categories: Lectures
Description: Mingei, or “folk-craft,” is in Japan today a well-known category of artistic production, a widely diffused type of commodity, and a seamless part of national cultural identity. Yet the word itself – along with the idea that the everyday pottery or furnishings of the pre-industrial farming household had great aesthetic value – was new in the 1920s. Between 1925 and 1955, various groups within Japanese society worked to define and redefine mingei. By the 1950s the result was a successful and highly marketable new articulation of Japanese national style. Kim Brandt is the author of Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan.
Phone: 805-893-3137
Event posted April 18, 2008
Last updated April 18, 2008
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