Hamada, Shoji [浜田庄司] (1894–1978)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiaki Ajioka
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Folk Art ◽  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Western World ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
Folk Traditions ◽  
Technical Mastery ◽  
The Ideal

Hamada Shoji was a modern Japanese ceramic artist who adopted the medium consciously as artistic expression, taking inspiration from folk traditions, particularly Okinawan pottery and British slipware. His career began in 1920s Britain where he accompanied the British potter Bernard Leach (1885–1979) to help establish a pottery workshop at St Ives, Cornwall. After returning to Japan, Hamada settled in Mashiko, a small village north of Tokyo, with its own folk pottery tradition. Leach and Hamada became icons of early studio pottery in the post-World War II Western world and their work is known collectively as "Anglo-Japanese style" or the "Leach-Hamada tradition." In Japan, Hamada’s work is associated with the Mingei folk art movement. His stoneware depicts an earthy naturalness and dynamism underpinned by technical mastery and refined taste. Leach described Hamada as the ideal studio potter in whom the head, hand, and heart were perfectly balanced. This echoed Hamada’s own words: "With the risk of exaggeration, I occasionally hear this voice in my work: leave the shape to the wheel, leave the drawing to the brush, leave the firing to the kiln." His Zen-like attitude is reflected in his works, which appear to embody the Mingei ideal in the modern world.

scholarly journals From State Control to Competition: German Higher Education Transformed

2004 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 73-104
Author(s):  
Andra Wolter
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Research University ◽  
Modern World ◽  
State Control ◽  
System Transformation ◽  
World War ◽  
German States ◽  
The Ideal

Although there have been several cycles of debate and reform on higher education since World War II, the most recent proposals, some implemented and others under consideration, are by far the most far reaching and consequential of the period. Most aim at resolving the conflict between the ideal of the Humboldtian model of an elite research university, and the demand for an open, accessible, and differentiated system of higher education that takes into account the pivotal role of higher education in the modern world and in a democratic and pluralistic society. Forces and factors at work in other countries have affected the timing and dynamics of system transformation, but the unification in the early 1990s of the two German states, in which higher education had very different structures and mandates, has played a great role in the matter.

scholarly journals Samuel Beckett’s Trilogy and the Revolution of the Body in Vichy France

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-36
Author(s):  
William Davies
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
The Body ◽  
Male Body ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
Physical Deterioration ◽  
Vichy France ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
The Revolution

This essay explores the depiction of the degenerating male form in Samuel Beckett’s post-World War II trilogy of novels (Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable) in the context of Vichy France’s ideology of the body—specifically the male body—and the propaganda of the regime’s Révolution nationale, which Beckett would have encountered in wartime France. Read with this historical situation in mind, this essay argues that Beckett’s move from the limping Molloy to the bed-bound Malone and finally to the physically limbless figure of The Unnamable gives expression to a reality of physical deterioration that is unique to the degenerating body, a reality that also inverts the ideal of physical perfection that regimes such as Vichy produced. Analyzed in this way, Beckett’s work can be seen to aggravate and challenge both Vichy’s idolization of the strong, athletic male form and the ways in which Vichy and other midcentury ideologies produced narratives of the body steeped in a narrow and ultimately violent essentialism.

After Eve

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Emison
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Attitudes ◽  
Modern World ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women And Children

The imagery of films both reflected and spurred radical shifts in women’s lives throughout the 20th century. The history of film, and of responses to film, provides evidence of social attitudes and prejudices—those in Hollywood but also regional biases, pertaining to race as well as to gender. Those who were socially denigrated, such as prostitutes, were often treated with a degree of respect in screen narratives. The traditional genres had depended on closure; film, especially post–World War II, featured women and children with complexly difficult lives often lacking neat resolutions. Resnais, Bergman, and Antonioni each focused on women with humdrum rather than heroic lives, and made them the linchpin for studies of the psychological pressures of the modern world.

THE ROLE AND ROLE OF OIL POLICY IN SAUDI ARABIA IN POST WORLD WAR II ECONOMIC LIFE

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
Maftuna Sanoqulova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oil Policy

This article consists of the politics which connected with oil in Saudi Arabia after the World war II , the relations of economical cooperations on this matter and the place of oil in the history of world economics

Dynamics of Immigration: From Humanitarianism to Securitization

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reumah Suhail
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Host Country ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
Immigration Policies ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
Immigration Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
Selection Of

The paper addresses the different aspects of the politics of immigration, the underlying factors that motivate, force or pressurize people to move from their country of origin to new abodes in foreign nations. In the introduction the paper discusses different theories playing their due role in the immigration process, namely Realism and Constructivism. The paper examines the history of immigration and post-World War II resettlement followed by an analysis of how immigration policies are now centered towards securitization as opposed to humanitarianism after 9/11, within the scenario of globalization. Muslim migrant issues and more stringent immigration policies are also weighed in on, followed by a look at immigration in regions which are not hotspot settlement destinations. Lastly an analysis is presented about the selection of a host country a person opts for when contemplating relocation; a new concept is also discussed and determined whereby an individual can opt for “citizenship by investment” and if such a plan is an accepted means of taking on a new nationality.

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