Memory and Fabrication in East Asian Visual Culture: Ruinous Garden

This book explores the "ruinous garden" as a poetic lens through which to examine four contemporary East Asian visual culture sites. It offers concise analyses of visual works and cultural criticisms, focusing on space in metropolitan Japan and Hong Kong, China. It discusses development, representation, postcolonialism, and graphic design as forms of retrospective cultural thinking, addressing visual and invisible modernity and the attachment to disappearing space.

Format: Hardback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 18 November 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

This captivating book delves into the poetic realm of the "ruinous garden" to explore four contemporary sites of visual culture in East Asia. By framing destroyed, discarded, and displaced material objects within the rhetoric of development and linking them to the experiences of ethnic and national cultures, the book offers concise yet profound analyses of visual works and cultural critiques. These analyses are placed in dialogue with approaches from postcolonial texts, addressing development and fractures in representation. Furthermore, the book proposes graphic design as a form of retrospective cultural thinking, encompassing visual and invisible modernity, as well as an attachment to disappearing space.

Offering a unique and comprehensive analysis of Japanese visual culture, this book combines discussions on photography, installation art, and graphic design, while also integrating material from Hong Kong visual culture into discussions of identity. It appeals to students and scholars of visual culture in East Asia, environmental art, and environmental humanities, providing a rich and insightful perspective on the region's artistic landscape.

Weight: 500g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032101965