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A richly textured, beautifully written, and provocatively argued analysis of the Japanese folk-craft movement, this study sheds light on empire, middle-class material culture, the aesthetics of fascism, and much else common to twentieth-century societies in the throes of dislocating change. A beguiling book on important themes. --Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History, Columbia University Kingdom of Beauty is first-rate. Kim Brandt's analysis is sharp, her organization supple, her writing graceful. Moreover, her synthesis of the imperial with the domestic--and of the ideological with the material--makes the book a model of cultural history. --Karen Wigen, author of The Making of a Japanese Periphery, 1750-1920 In tracing the history of mingei activism, Brandt considers not only the well-known leaders of the folk-art movement, but also the networks involved in its success. ASIAN ART December 2007

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Kim Brandt is Associate Professor of Japanese history at Columbia University.

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