Weisenfeld, Gennifer S. 1966-

Imaging disaster Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 / Gennifer Weisenfeld. - Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2012., (c)2012. - 1 online resource (xv, 393 pages) illustrations (some color), color maps. - Asia: local studies/global themes ; 22 .

Includes bibliographies 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.



9780520954243


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 / .I434 2012