{"product_id":"9781526139979","title":"Critical Design in Japan","description":"This book tells the story of critical avant-garde design in Japan, which emerged during the 1960s and continues to inspire designers today. The practice communicates a form of visual and material protest drawing on the ideologies and critical theories of the 1960s and 1970s, notably feminism, body politics, the politics of identity, and ecological, anti-consumerist and anti-institutional critiques, as well as the concept of otherness. It also presents an encounter between two seemingly contradictory concepts: luxury and the avant-garde. The book challenges the definition of design as the production of unnecessary decorative and conceptual objects, and the characterisation of Japanese design in particular as beautiful, sublime or a product of ‘Japanese culture’. In doing so it reveals the ways in which material and visual culture serve to voice protest and formulate a social critique.","brand":"Ory Bartal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46903061643582,"sku":"9781526139979","price":4826.39,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4357\/7662\/products\/9781526139979_774fd3b3-fb83-4af8-9ea0-905f697eda4e.jpg?v=1707532333","url":"https:\/\/exclusivebooks.co.za\/products\/9781526139979","provider":"Exclusive Books Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}