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Miller's Japan's Modern Myth, though published in the 1970s, is still relevant in this regard. He wrote of how it is odd how Japan has managed to export a reput
by Mediterraneo10 6y ago
Miller's Japan's Modern Myth, though published in the 1970s, is still relevant in this regard. He wrote of how it is odd how Japan has managed to export a reputation of being a country of peace and contemplation when it likes its loudspeakers (another poster already mentioned the election-season cars with loudspeakers, goddamn) and you can find them even in some Zen rock gardens.
- azernik 6y agoPart of it is a reaction - Japanese pop culture starting in the 60s and 70s included a strong element of youth rebellion against parentally-mandated elegance and minimalism. Similar to how European and European-derived cultures adopted a very traditional clean Japanese aesthetic in rebellion against a baroque tradition.
- ahartmetz 6y agoJust in case somebody thinks that European minimalism started with Apple or Braun or whatever: it started much earlier in the 1910s latest, with Neues Bauen, De Stijl, Bauhaus etc. I'm a bit of a fan of these movements and the things they produced.
- azernik 6y agoYup! My UI class, at the height of the flatness craze, started with a review of post-WWI German typography.