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Japanese Art
Design History
Graphic Design
History of Photography
Late 19th and Early 20th Century Art
Modern Art
Visual Studies/Visual Culture
Art History
Visual Culture of Disaster

The impact of Japan's modern sociopolitical transformations on artistic production and practice; the cultural formations of nation and empire building; Japanese modernism; the politics of the avant-garde; the visual culture of disaster; commercial design; and the relationship between high art and popular culture.

Education:

• PhD Princeton University 1997

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1.  Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923. Berkeley, University of California Press, (Fall, 2012). [book.php] [Imaging Disaster Flyer]
2.  Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1931. Berkeley, University of California Press, (2002). [book.php]
3. "Japanese Typographic Design and the Art of Letterforms." Bridges to Heaven: Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Wen C. Fong. Edited by Jerome Silbergeld and Dora C.Y. Ching.  (2011): 827-848. [Japanese Typographic Design and the Art of Letterforms]
4. "The Expanding Arts of the Interwar Period." Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868-2000. Edited by J. Thomas Rimer.  (2011): 66-98. [aspx]
5. "Publicity and Propaganda in 1930s Japan: Modernism as Method." Design Issues  vol. 25 no. 4 (Fall, 2009): 13-28. [Publicity and Propaganda]
6. "Selling Shiseido: Japanese Cosmetics Advertising and Design in the Early 20th-Century."   (2008). (Visualizing Cultures Website, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) [html]
7. "Saigai to Shikaku: Kantō Daishinsai no Shikaku Hyōshō o Megutte” (Disaster and Vision: On the Visual Representations of the Great Kantō Earthquake)." Kioku to Rekishi: Nihon ni okeru Kako no Shikakuka o megutte (Memory and History: Visualising the Past in Japan). Edited by Tano Yasunori.  (2007): 42-53. [Saigai to Shikaku]
8. "Publicité et propagande dans le Japon des années 1930: Le modernisme comme méthode." La société Japonaise devant la montée du militarisme: Culture populaire et contrôle social dans les années 1930. Edited by Jean-Jacques Tschudin and Claude Hamon.  (2007): 47-70.
9. "Reinscribing Tradition in a Transnational Art World." Asian Art History in the Twenty-First Century (Clark Studies in the Visual Arts). Edited by Vishakha Desai.  (2007): 181-198. [1766] [Reinscribing Tradition]
10. "“Women and Words: Two Language Artists in Contemporary Japan." Persistence/Transformation: Text as Image in the Art of Xu Bing. Edited by Jerome Silbergeld and Dora C.Y. Ching.  (2006): 59-85. [Women and Words]
11. "‘From Baby’s First Bath’: Kao Soap and Modern Japanese Commercial Design." The Art Bulletin  vol. LXXXVI no. 3 (September, 2004): 573-598. [From Baby's First Bath]
12. "Nihon ni okeru shōgyō dezainshi to sono kenkyū (Art History and the Study of Japanese Commercial Design)." Bijutsu Forum  vol. 21 (November, 2001): 123-130.
13. "Touring ‘Japan as Museum’: NIPPON and Other Japanese Imperialist Travelogues." PositionsVisual Cultures of Japanese Imperialism. Edited by Gennifer Weisenfeld.  vol. 8 no. 3 (Winter, 2000): 747-793. [Touring Japan as Museum]
14. "Japanese Modernism and Consumerism: Forging the New Artistic Field of Shōgyō Bijutsu." Being Modern in Japan. Edited by Elise Tipton and John Clark.  (2000): 75-98. [Japanese Modernism and Consumerism]
15. "Designing After Disaster: Barrack Decoration and the Great Kanto Earthquake." Japanese Studies  vol. 18 no. 3 (1998): 229-246. [Designing After Disaster]
16. "Mavo’s ‘Conscious Constructivism’: Art, Individualism, and Daily Life in Interwar Japan." Art Journal  vol. 55 no. 3 (Fall, 1996): 64-73. [Mavo's Conscious Constructivism]