Gennifer Weisenfeld

Walter H. Annenberg Distinguished Professor at Duke University. She specializes in modern Japanese art, design, and visual culture. Her books include Mavo, Imaging Disaster, Gas Mask Nation, The Complete Commercial Artist, and The Fine Art of Persuasion, focusing on aesthetics, politics, and visual media in Japan.
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Commercial Art and the Urban Spectacle of Modern Japan

Excerpted from The Fine Art of Persuasion: Corporate Advertising Design, Nation, and Empire in Modern Japan, by Gennifer Weisenfeld. Reprinted with…

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