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April 01 2012
The Local and the Global: Hokusai's Great Wave in Contemporary Product Design
Christine M. E. Guth
Christine M. E. Guth
Christine M. E. Guth leads the Asian design history specialism in the Royal College of Art and Victoria and Albert Museum Design History Programme. She is the author of many publications on Japan, including Art, Tea and Industry: Masuda Takashi and the Mitsui Circle (1993) and Longfellow's Tattoos: Tourism, Collecting, and Japan (2004). This essay is part of a larger Project on the global history of “The Great Wave.”
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Christine M. E. Guth
Christine M. E. Guth leads the Asian design history specialism in the Royal College of Art and Victoria and Albert Museum Design History Programme. She is the author of many publications on Japan, including Art, Tea and Industry: Masuda Takashi and the Mitsui Circle (1993) and Longfellow's Tattoos: Tourism, Collecting, and Japan (2004). This essay is part of a larger Project on the global history of “The Great Wave.”
Online ISSN: 1531-4790
Print ISSN: 0747-9360
© 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2012
Design Issues (2012) 28 (2): 16–29.
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Christine M. E. Guth; The Local and the Global: Hokusai's Great Wave in Contemporary Product Design. Design Issues 2012; 28 (2): 16–29. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/DESI_a_00140
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