Modan. La ville, le corps et le genre dans le Japon de l’entre-deux-guerres. Magazines L'attention méticuleuse prêtée aux objets

L'attention méticuleuse prêtée aux objets du quotidien va devenir une des caractéristiques du style nordique

crossed by brigands and lepers

the painter and collector Albert Maignan acquired an exceptional archaeological treasure: thirty-eight pieces of Renaissance jewelry that had just been discovered

Domesticated seven or eight millennia before our era

According to its Egyptian title

Modan. La ville, le corps et le genre dans le Japon de l’entre-deux-guerres. Magazines L'attention méticuleuse prêtée aux objetsBetween the second half of the 1920s and the early 1930s, modan, or Japanese modernism, revolutionized urban culture and lifestyles in Japan. Modan (from the English modern) denoted the height of novelty in a post traditional world influenced by capitalism. Modan left its mark on art, architecture, literature, and philosophy. But thanks to mass media, it also infused the daily lives of the emerging middle class. It was embodied in avant garde thinking