Gennifer Weisenfeld examines the evolution of Japanese advertising graphic design from the early 1900s through the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, a pivotal design event that rebranded Japan on the world stage.
Gennifer Weisenfeld examines the evolution of Japanese advertising graphic design from the early 1900s through the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, a pivotal design event that rebranded Japan on the world stage.
Gennifer Weisenfeld is Walter H. Annenberg Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University. She is the author of Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan, Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923, and Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905–1931.
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Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Promoting the Profession 25 2. Visible Language + the Art of Letterforms 77 3. Health + Beauty 117 4. Food + Beverage 181 5. Light, Labor + Leisure 249 6. Nation + Empire 297 7. Transwar Design 353 Notes 407 Sources 449 Index 469
