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August 25, 2008
Kim Brandt Kingdom of Beauty: Mingei and the Politics of Folk Art in Imperial Japan Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007. 320 pp.; 21 b/w ills. Paper $23.95 (9780822340003)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2008.85

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Scholarly texts, from David Harvey’s The Condition of Postmodernity (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1990) to Carl Schorske’s Fin-De-Siecle Vienna (New York: Vintage Books, 1981), have played a pivotal role in theorizing culture, and specifically art, as a means by which to withstand and overcome the spatial and temporal contradictions of modernity in the West. In the past decade, the field of East Asian Studies has found itself undergoing a much-needed methodological shift whereby the intersection between...