Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Figures and Tables 9
4. Acknowledgements 11
5. Notes to the Reader 13
6. Introduction 15
7. Post-Bubble Japanese Department Stores: The Need to Search for New Paradigms 31
8. Consumption of Fast Fashion in Japan: Local Brands and Global Environment 49
9. Konbini-Nation: The Rise of the Convenience Store in Post-Industrial Japan 69
10. Serving the Nation: The Myth of Washoku 89
11. Consuming Domesticity in Post-Bubble Japan 107
12. The Metamorphosis of Excess: ‘Rubbish Houses’ and the Imagined Trajectory of Things in Post-Bubble Japan 129
13. Robot Reincarnation: Rubbish, Artefacts, and Mortuary Rituals 153
14. Art and Consumption in Post-Bubble Japan: From Postmodern Irony to Shared Engagement 175
15. The Fate of Landscape in Post-War Japanese Art and Visual Culture 195
16. Consuming Eco-Art: Satoyama at the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2012 215
17. Artistic Recycling in Japan: Today A Curator’s Perspective 237
18. Notes on Contributors 253
19. Index 257