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 Recent Faculty Publications

Books

1.  Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1931. Berkeley, University of California Press, (2002).

Articles Published

1. "Publicity and Propaganda in 1930s Japan: Modernism as Method." Design Issues  vol. 25 no. 4 (Fall, 2009): 13-28.
2. "Selling Shiseido: Japanese Cosmetics Advertising and Design in the Early 20th-Century."   (2008). (Visualizing Cultures Website, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) [index.html#]
3. "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 Tan’o Yasunori.  (2007): 42-53.
4. "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.
5. "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.
6. "“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.
7. "‘From Baby’s First Bath’: Kao Soap and Modern Japanese Commercial Design." The Art Bulletin  vol. LXXXVI no. 3 (September, 2004): 573-598. [html]
8. "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.
9. "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.
10. "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.
11. "Designing After Disaster: Barrack Decoration and the Great Kanto Earthquake." Japanese Studies  vol. 18 no. 3 (1998): 229-246.
12. "Mavo’s ‘Conscious Constructivism’: Art, Individualism, and Daily Life in Interwar Japan." Art Journal  vol. 55 no. 3 (Fall, 1996): 64-73.

Articles Accepted

1. "The Expanding Arts of the Interwar Period." Japanese Art of the Modern Age. Edited by J. Thomas Rimer, Samuel Morse, and Quitman Phillips. History of Japanese Art vol. 3 (2009).
2. "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.  (2009).

Articles Submitted

1. "Shiseido Chic: The Cosmopolitan Aesthetics of Japanese Cosmetics." Friends at the Brushwood Gate. Edited by Gregory Levine, Andrew Watsky, Gennifer Weisenfeld.  (2009).

Book Reviews

1. "Nihonga, Transcending the Past: Japanese-Style Painting 1868-1968." Journal of Asian Studies  vol. 56 no. 4 (November, 1998): 1094-1096.

Edited Volumes

1.  Visual Cultures of Japanese Imperialism. Positions  vol. 8 no. 3 (Winter, 2000).

Exhibition Catalogs

1.  Tada Hokuu no Kôkoku Bigaku to Josei no Shôchôsei” (Tada Hokuu’s Advertising Aesthetics and the Symbolic Value of Women). Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Japan, (2003).
2.  Imaging Calamity: Artists in the Capital after the Great Kantô Earthquake. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, (1998).

Books in Progress

1.  Imaging Disaster: Japanese Art and Design in Tokyo After the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. 2008. (in preparation)
2.  The Fine Art of Persuasion: Commercial Design in Twentieth-Century Japan. 2008. (in preparation)