Conferences and Announcements by Ory Bartal
Critical Design in Japan: Material Culture, Luxury, and the Avant-Garde, 2020
A Review about the Book "Critical Design in Japan" in Design and Culture Journal
Design and Culture 1. The Japanese names follow the Japanese custom of name writing, in which the... more Design and Culture 1. The Japanese names follow the Japanese custom of name writing, in which the first name is preceded by the surname.
Design and Culture 1. The Japanese names follow the Japanese custom of name writing, in which the... more Design and Culture 1. The Japanese names follow the Japanese custom of name writing, in which the first name is preceded by the surname.
The Third Biennial IAJS Conference
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The Heisei Era in Retrospect: Major Trends in Post-Industrial and Post-Consumer Japan
The University of Haifa and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem 11–13 June 2017
The Biennial Conference of the Israeli Association of Japanese Studies will be held at the University of Haifa and the Bezalel Academy of Arts, Jerusalem on 11–13 June 2017. In this conference we wish to reflect on the Heisei era as this era approaches its thirtieth anniversary and may even draw to a close soon. Focusing on this relatively short but eventful era, this conference aims at creating an outline for a retrospective on the historical, social, economic, political and cultural developments in Heisei Japan. We especially welcome interdisciplinary studies of the creative industries within their social or economic contexts.
Papers by Ory Bartal
Manchester University Press eBooks, Apr 17, 2020
Review of Japanese culture and society, 2016
Design Issues, 2013
Introduction Advertising as a functional communication system, with a clear-cut goal of capturing... more Introduction Advertising as a functional communication system, with a clear-cut goal of capturing the consumer’s attention and encouraging the purchase of the advertised product, typically consists of a visual image and a slogan. In analyzing the play of word and image in contemporary advertisements, this study looks to the conceptual changes that occurred in the relations between these two semiotic fields from the modern to the postmodern era, during which the mutuality and interaction between the two systems were modified completely. Within the realm of this extensive subject, this article attends to one particular element: the design of Japanese calligraphy and typography that, as argued by Gennifer Weisenfeld, is a visual mode of communication that functions on an aesthetic metalevel.1 Rather than presenting a survey of Japanese typographic design history, my intent instead is to show how the text itself becomes a visual image in contemporary Japanese advertising and how Japanese contemporary designers use calligraphy and fonts to create a meta-level visual communication mode.
Manchester University Press eBooks, Apr 17, 2020
Manchester University Press eBooks, Apr 17, 2020
Manchester University Press eBooks, Apr 17, 2020
Manchester University Press eBooks, Apr 17, 2020
In his most recent book, Ory Bartal, an associate professor of design history at the Bezalel Acad... more In his most recent book, Ory Bartal, an associate professor of design history at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem, builds upon and develops his ongoing exploration of postwar Japa...
Manchester University Press eBooks, Apr 17, 2020
Manchester University Press eBooks, Apr 17, 2020
Manchester University Press eBooks, Apr 17, 2020
Springer eBooks, 2016
Looking at the treatment of the memory of the nuclear holocaust in Japanese comics and animation ... more Looking at the treatment of the memory of the nuclear holocaust in Japanese comics and animation as a case study, this article presents a theoretical discussion on the ways that popular culture in the postmodern era serves as a new agent of memory that undermines official national memory. This case study raises the questions of why did the Japanese people choose to portray the atrocities of the nuclear holocaust in this medium? How did it facilitate the presentation of a new historiography and the processing and formulation of a new memory? What is the subversive role of graphic novels and animation in Japan in relation to official channels that deal with the representation of the nuclear holocaust?
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Conferences and Announcements by Ory Bartal
Call for proposals for an international conference on
The Heisei Era in Retrospect: Major Trends in Post-Industrial and Post-Consumer Japan
The University of Haifa and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem 11–13 June 2017
The Biennial Conference of the Israeli Association of Japanese Studies will be held at the University of Haifa and the Bezalel Academy of Arts, Jerusalem on 11–13 June 2017. In this conference we wish to reflect on the Heisei era as this era approaches its thirtieth anniversary and may even draw to a close soon. Focusing on this relatively short but eventful era, this conference aims at creating an outline for a retrospective on the historical, social, economic, political and cultural developments in Heisei Japan. We especially welcome interdisciplinary studies of the creative industries within their social or economic contexts.
Papers by Ory Bartal
Call for proposals for an international conference on
The Heisei Era in Retrospect: Major Trends in Post-Industrial and Post-Consumer Japan
The University of Haifa and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem 11–13 June 2017
The Biennial Conference of the Israeli Association of Japanese Studies will be held at the University of Haifa and the Bezalel Academy of Arts, Jerusalem on 11–13 June 2017. In this conference we wish to reflect on the Heisei era as this era approaches its thirtieth anniversary and may even draw to a close soon. Focusing on this relatively short but eventful era, this conference aims at creating an outline for a retrospective on the historical, social, economic, political and cultural developments in Heisei Japan. We especially welcome interdisciplinary studies of the creative industries within their social or economic contexts.