E-raamat: Exhibitionist Japan: The Spectacle of Modern Development

'Exhibitions functioned in many ways, as Angus Lockyer argues in this deeply researched and exuberant volume, although they were always splashy, alluring, oddball, capacious, and modern. This versatility explains why these grand spectacles work so well to reveal Japan's fast-changing social histories and self-representations in the wider world.' Laura Hein, author of Post-Fascist Japan: Political Culture in Kamakura after The Second World War 'In this spritely, deeply-researched and refreshingly reflexive history, Angus Lockyer decisively shows how expos, like any complex project, present the aspirations of the people who came together to create them, and how those aspirations will not dictate how people actually experience them. Exhibitionist Japan illuminates what expos in Japan and Japanese exhibits at international expositions promised and delivered for their diverse stakeholders, from politicians and media magnates to entrepreneurs, professional exhibition-makers and visitors. By following the arc of expo-making through Japan's last 150 years, Lockyer provides a rich counterpoint to both existing histories of modern Japan and histories of expos more widely, challenging existing US- and Eurocentric interpretations in the anglophone literature.' Sarah Teasley, author of Designing Modern Japan