Showa Modern - Signs and Store Designs, 1920s–30s Red Krayola pre-internet

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prize-winning Austrian poet Friederike Mayrocker adds linguistic material collected from a variety of other sources (which through the years she gathered on pieces of paper) to create a grand collage subject to the permutations

Hansjörg Mayer

Calling it ‘fire music’ does justice to its incandescent spirit

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Showa Modern - Signs and Store Designs, 1920s–30s Red Krayola pre-internetShowa Modern: Signs and Store Designs, 1920s30s ("Window fronts, shop interiors, and displays from city streets") ISBN 9784861528750 224 page paperback with jacket from Seigensha bilingual Japanese and English, illustrated throughout see the companion volume *** The signs, street and window displays, and other designs gathered in the pages are from a time of enormous change in Japanese cities that is known as the age of Showa Modern. Western modes and