In ‘Designing Japan’ Hara reveals methods that make publicly accessible aesthetic inquiries of how this island nation will proceed as its population ages
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feeds into larger questions about the very nature of artworks and authorship which Duchamp raised in his lifetime
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Fifty Sounds - Polly Barton 2025 gift guide In ‘Designing Japan’ Hara revealsWhy Japan? In Fifty Sounds, winner of the 2019 Fitzcarraldo Editions Essay Prize, Polly Barton attempts to exhaust her obsession with the country she moved to at the age of 21, morebefore eventually becoming a literary translator. From min min, the sound of air screaming, to jin jin, the sound of being touched for the very first time, from hisori, the sound of harbouring masochist tendencies, to mote mote, the sound of becoming a small town movie