Author:

Weisenfeld, Gennifer S (Gennifer Stacy) 1966-  Search this

Physical description:

xv, 393 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm

Type:

Books

Place:

Japan

Date:

2012

[2012], ©2012

20th century

Contents:

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

Topic:

Arts, Japanese--Themes, motives  Search this

Kanto Earthquake, Japan, 1923  Search this

Earthquakes in art  Search this

Arts and society--History  Search this

Earthquakes--Social aspects  Search this

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_990426