商品簡介
Visualizing Beauty examines the intersections between feminine ideals and changing socio-political circumstances in China, Japan, and Korea during the first half of the twentieth century. The volume presents a broad range of visual products that informed concepts of beauty and womanhood, including fasion, interior design magazines, newspaper illustrations, and paintings of and by women. It looks into the complex relations between feminine subjectivity and the promotion of modernity, commerce, and colonialism.
作者簡介
Aida Yuen Wong is Associate Professor of Fine Arts and Chair of the East Asian Studies Program at Brandeis University.
目次
HKUP Spring / Summer 2012