Imaging disaster : Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 / Gennifer Weisenfeld.
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TextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2012Description: xv, 393 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cmISBN: 9780520271951 Hb, Bp.Subject(s): Arts, Japanese -- 20th century -- Themes, motives | Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923 | Earthquakes in art | Arts and society -- Japan -- History -- 20th century | Earthquakes -- Social aspects -- JapanLOC classification: NX 584.A1 W45 2012 JAPAN
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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.
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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.
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