This interim test blog is meant to help illustrate a series of innovative rail-themed films, music, digital media, visual arts and live performances etc that support the case for applying new Creative Culture Principles to our 200 year-old passenger railways. This preliminary blog site has been created by Ian Banks, who is presently working as an arts consultant with Design Council for Network Rail.
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Visual Arts & Lecture: Engines of Progress: Images of Railroad Culture in Modern Japan (The Japan Foundation, Los Angeles 2022)
Engines of Progress: Images of Railroad Culture in Modern Japan celebrates the 150th anniversary of railroads in Japan, this lecture explores how woodblock print showing trains reveal diverse aspects of Japan's modernity and different attitudes towards it. Themes include the promise and problems of technology, cultural shifts, and how artistic imagination is spurred by material change.
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