Le quotidien d’un trait de crayon. Les pérégrinations savantes de Kon Wajirô dans le Tokyo des années 1920

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关键词: drawing;    observation;    city;    daily life;    modernology;    Tokyo;   

DOI  :  10.4000/traces.7091

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In the middle of the 1920’s, a few years after the Great Kantô Earthquake, artist and intellectual figure Kon Wajirô (1888-1973) begins, with the help of some friends, to observe the movements and daily lives of Tokyo’s inhabitants. This new science, called modernology, aims at compiling the infinite variations of contemporary life’s ordinary practices and details, through numerous drawings, sketches and graphs. This paper intends to reflect on this original attempt to grasp the present by recounting its main protagonist peculiar path.

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