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19th and 20th Century Japanese Art and Design

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; commercial design; and the relationship between high art and popular culture.

Education:

• PhD Princeton University 1997

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1.  Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1931. Berkeley, University of California Press, (2002).
2. "‘From Baby’s First Bath’: Kao Soap and Modern Japanese Commercial Design." The Art Bulletin  vol. LXXXVI no. 3 (September, 2004): 573-598. [html]
3. "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.
4. "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.
5. "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.
6. "Designing After Disaster: Barrack Decoration and the Great Kanto Earthquake." Japanese Studies  vol. 18 no. 3 (1998): 229-246.