Chaos, Kawaii, and Cultural Memory

The gallery arts of Masami Teraoka or Takashi Murakami and the popular media of manga or Sanrio Corporation’s Hello Kitty™ are celebrated for their ethos of inventive play, innovation, and novelty, and their immediate significance within their own worlds. Their sense of “newness” and provocations of...

The International Journal of Arts Theory and History

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