Modan. La ville, le corps et le genre dans le Japon de l’entre-deux-guerres. Magazines crossed by brigands and lepers

crossed by brigands and lepers

many questions have remained unanswered and many sources ignored

which he this time uses in an old school notebook of natural history

L'attention méticuleuse prêtée aux objets du quotidien va devenir une des caractéristiques du style nordique

Domesticated seven or eight millennia before our era

Modan. La ville, le corps et le genre dans le Japon de l’entre-deux-guerres. Magazines crossed by brigands and lepersBetween the second half of the 1920s and the early 1930s, modan, or Japanese modernism, revolutionized urban culture and lifestyles in Japan. Modan (from the English modern) denoted the height of novelty in a post traditional world influenced by capitalism. Modan left its mark on art, architecture, literature, and philosophy. But thanks to mass media, it also infused the daily lives of the emerging middle class. It was embodied in avant garde thinking