Archive for January, 2010
Posted on January 23, 2010. Filed under: books, Consuming, history, Japan, travel | Tags: Bob Kane, Charles Shulz, Chihiro Iwasaki, Dostoevsky, graves of famous manga artists writers, Hans Christian Andersen, Herman Melville Moby Dick, Ippei Okamoto, J.R.R.Tolkien, Jack Kirby, Jules Verne, Kafka, Machiko Hasegawa, Osamu Tezuka, Oscar Wilde, Philip K. Dick, Primo Levi, Shakespeare, Shotaro Ishinomori, Tove Janssen Moomin, Walt Disney, world travel |
A travelogue of arrivals at places of departure, where the aim of every journey is to record and honour a life that may be over, but is not forgotten.
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Posted on January 16, 2010. Filed under: costume, history, needlework | Tags: 20th century German modern art, Agnes Richter, Carl Schneider, Heidelberg University, historic embroidery, mental illness art therapy, Nazi artist murder, outsider art, Prinzhorn Collection |
Outsider art from the inside – an astonishing collection of works by psychiatric patients.
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Posted on January 14, 2010. Filed under: books, Japan, writing | Tags: Amazon, authors' rights copyright, Japan e-book market, Japan Electronic Book Publishers' Association, Japan Writers' Association, Kindle, Nihon Denshi-Shoseki Shuppansha Kyokai, Sony |
A new association of Japanese publishers is set to take on the e-book market. But will writers lose out?
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Posted on January 11, 2010. Filed under: anime, Consuming, Creating, events, manga, needlework | Tags: anime, Asa Eckstrom, Godzilla, IKEA, manga, Noh, origami, Superflat, Takashi Murakami, Tokyo Great Quilt Festival |
Global cultural flows aren’t just about high art or elite ghettoes – anime and manga are establishing themselves in the domestic design market.
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Posted on January 8, 2010. Filed under: anime, books, Consuming, Japan, kamishibai, manga | Tags: anime, Brigitte Koyama-Richard, Fred Patten, Frederik L. Schodt, Gegege no Kitaro, Great Yokai Wars, Hiroko Yoda, Jonathan Clements, Locarno Film Festival, Manga Impact, Matt Alt, Mechademia, Michael Dylan Foster, Noboyuki Tsugata, Paul Gravett, Philip Brophy, Shigeru Mizuki, Zilia Papp |
More books are appearing on anime and manga in English – a positive sign of movement from the ghetto to the Fringe.
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Posted on January 4, 2010. Filed under: anime, Creating, Japan, manga, writing | Tags: Haaretz Daily Newspaper, Hayao Miyazaki, Keiji Nakazawa, Leiji Matsumoto, Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Natsu Onoda Power, Shigeru Mizuki, The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga, Thomas Lamarre |
As The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God of Manga is reviewed around the world, his ability to transcend time and culture becomes ever more evident.
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