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 Recent Faculty Publications

Books

1. Weisenfeld, GS. Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan. University of Chicago Press, (2023).  [abs]
2. Weisenfeld, GS. The Fine Art of Persuasion: Corporate Advertising Design, Nation, and Empire in Modern Japan. (2020). (in preparation)
3. Weisenfeld, G. Imaging Disaster Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923. Univ of California Press, (November, 2012): 414 pages. [book.php]  [abs]
4.  Crossing the Sea: Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Yoshiaki Shimizu.  edited by Levine, G; Watsky, A; Weisenfeld, GPrinceton University Press, (2012).
5. Weisenfeld, GS. Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1931. Berkeley, University of California Press, (2002). [book.php]  [abs]

Articles Published

1. Weisenfeld, GS. "On Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923."   (February, 2015).
2. Weisenfeld, GS. "Industrial Poisoning Minamata, 1972." Getting the Picture: The Visual Culture of the News. Edited by Hill, J; Schwartz, VR.  (2015): 94-96.
3. Weisenfeld, GS. "Die Verbildlichung der Katastrophe in Japan." Von Atlantis bis heute: Mensch, Natur, Katastrophe  (2014): 155-161.  [abs]
4. Weisenfeld, GS. "Gas Mask Parade: Japan’s Anxious Modernism."   vol. 21 no. 1 (2014): 179-199.
5. Weisenfeld, GS. "Laughing in the Face of Calamity: Visual Satire after the Great Kantô Earthquake." Disaster as Image: Iconographies and Media Strategies across Europe and Asia  (2014): 125-134.
6. Weisenfeld, GS. "Western-Style Painting in Japan: Mimesis, Individualism, and Japanese Nationhood." Modern Art in Africa, Asia, and Latin America: An Introduction to Global Modernisms. Edited by Brien, EO; Nicodemus, E; Chiu, M.  (2013): 165-180.  [abs]
7. Weisenfeld, GS. "Shiseido Chic: The Cosmopolitan Aesthetics of Japanese Cosmetics." Crossing the Sea: Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Yoshiaki Shimizu. Edited by Levine, G; Watsky, A; Weisenfeld, G.  (2012): 159-179.
8. Weisenfeld, GS. "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 Silbergeld, Jerome, ; Ching, Dora C. Y., ; Smith, Judith G., ; Murck, Alfreda,.  (2011): 827-848. [repository]
9. Weisenfeld, GS. "The Expanding Arts of the Interwar Period." Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868-2000. Edited by Rimer, JT.  (2011): 66-98.
10. Weisenfeld, GS. "Publicity and Propaganda in 1930s Japan: Modernism as Method." Design Issues  vol. 25 no. 4 (Fall, 2009): 13-28. [repository]
11. Weisenfeld, GS. "Selling Shiseido: Cosmetics Advertising & Design in Early 20th-Century Japan."   (2008). (Visualizing Cultures Website, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) [html]  [abs]
12. Weisenfeld, GS. "Reinscribing Tradition in a Transnational Art World." Asian art history in the twenty-first century. Edited by Desai, VN.  (2007): 181-198. [repository]  [abs]
13. Weisenfeld, GS. "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 Tschudin, J-J; Hamon, C.  (2007): 47-70.  [abs]
14. "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 Yasunori, T.  (2007): 42-53.
15. "Women and Words: Two Language Artists in Contemporary Japan." Persistence/Transformation: Text as Image in the Art of Xu Bing. Edited by Silbergeld, J; Ching, DCY.  (2006): 59-85.
16. Weisenfeld, GS. "‘From Baby’s First Bath’: Kao Soap and Modern Japanese Commercial Design." The Art Bulletin  vol. LXXXVI no. 3 (September, 2004): 573-598. [repository]
17. Weisenfeld, GS. "Tada Hokuu no Kōkoku Bigaku to Josei no Shōchōsei (Tada Hokuu’s Advertising Aesthetics and the Symbolic Value of Women)." Manazashi no Yukue: Tada Hokuu to Sono Shigoto-ten  (2003).
18. Weisenfeld, GS. "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.
19. Weisenfeld, GS. "Touring Japan-as-Museum: NIPPON and Other Japanese Imperialist Travelogues." Positions: east asia cultures critiqueVisual Cultures of Japanese Imperialism. Edited by Weisenfeld, G.  vol. 8 no. 3 (Winter, 2000): 747-793.
20. Weisenfeld, GS. "Japanese Modernism and Consumerism: Forging the New Artistic Field of Shōgyō Bijutsu." Being Modern in Japan. Edited by Tipton, E; Clark, J.  (2000): 75-98.
21. Weisenfeld, GS. "Guest Editor's Introduction: Visual Cultures of Japanese Imperialism." positions: east asia cultures critique  vol. 8 no. 3 (2000): 591-603.
22. Weisenfeld, GS. "Designing After Disaster: Barrack Decoration and the Great Kanto Earthquake." Japanese Studies  vol. 18 no. 3 (1998): 229-246. [repository]
23. Weisenfeld, GS. "Imaging Calamity: Artists in the Capital after the Great Kantô Earthquake." MOBO MOGA/ Modern Boy, Modern Girl: Japanese Modern Art 1910-1935. Edited by Tipton, E; Clark, J; Tipton, EK; Clark, J.  (1998): 75-98.
24. Weisenfeld, GS. "Mavo’s ‘Conscious Constructivism’: Art, Individualism, and Daily Life in Interwar Japan." Art Journal  vol. 55 no. 3 (Fall, 1996): 64-73. [repository]

Book Reviews

1. Weisenfeld, GS. "Hokusai’s Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon."   (January, 2017).  [abs]
2. Weisenfeld, GS. "Maximum Embodiment: Yōga, The Western Painting of Japan, 1912-1955 by Bert Winther-Tamaki." Journal of Japanese Studies  vol. 40 no. 1 (Winter, 2014): 187-190.
3. Weisenfeld, GS. "Nihonga, Transcending the Past: Japanese-Style Painting 1868-1968 by By Ellen Conant, Steven Owyoung, and J. Thomas Rimer." 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).