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Gennifer Weisenfeld, Assistant Professor, Art & Art History

Contact Info:

Office Location:	114 S. Buchanan Blvd. East Duke Building
Office Phone:	(919) 684-6051
Email Address:

Teaching (Spring 2025):

• ARTHIST 432S.01, PLEASURE QUARTERS TO TOKYO POP Synopsis

  Class Bldg 101, MW 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

  (also cross-listed as AMES 452S.01, VMS 432S.01)

• ARTHIST 495S.01, HONORS THESIS WORKSHOP Synopsis

  Class Bldg 101, W 03:05 PM-05:35 PM

  (also cross-listed as ARTSVIS 495S.01, VMS 495S.01)

Education:

Ph.D.	Princeton University	1997
M.A.	Princeton University	1992
B.A.	Wesleyan University	1987

Specialties:

Japanese Art
Art History
Visual Studies/Visual Culture
Modern Art
History of Photography
Design History
Visual Culture of Disaster

Research Interests:

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.

Keywords:

Asia • Japan • Art History • Avant-Garde • Modernism

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Magdalena Kolodziej  

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Weisenfeld, G, Imaging Disaster Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923 (November, 2012), pp. 414 pages, Univ of California Press, ISBN 9780520271951 [book.php]  [abs]
2. Weisenfeld, GS, Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1931 (2002), Berkeley, University of California Press, ISBN 0520223381 [book.php]  [abs]
3. Weisenfeld, GS, Japanese Typographic Design and the Art of Letterforms, in 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), pp. 827-848, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press [repository]
4. Weisenfeld, GS, Publicity and Propaganda in 1930s Japan: Modernism as Method, Design Issues, vol. 25 no. 4 (Fall, 2009), pp. 13-28, MIT Press [repository]
5. Weisenfeld, GS, Selling Shiseido: Cosmetics Advertising & Design in Early 20th-Century Japan (2008), MIT Visualizing Cultures (Visualizing Cultures Website, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.) [html]  [abs]
6. Weisenfeld, GS, Reinscribing Tradition in a Transnational Art World, in Asian art history in the twenty-first century, edited by Desai, VN (2007), pp. 181-198, Yale University Press, Williamstown, MA, ISBN 9780300125535 [repository]  [abs]
7. Weisenfeld, GS, ‘From Baby’s First Bath’: Kao Soap and Modern Japanese Commercial Design, The Art Bulletin, vol. LXXXVI no. 3 (September, 2004), pp. 573-598 [repository]
8. 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), pp. 123-130
9. Weisenfeld, GS, Touring Japan-as-Museum: NIPPON and Other Japanese Imperialist Travelogues, in Visual Cultures of Japanese Imperialism, edited by Weisenfeld, G, Positions: east asia cultures critique, vol. 8 no. 3 (Winter, 2000), pp. 747-793, Duke University Press, ISSN 1527-8271
10. Weisenfeld, GS, Japanese Modernism and Consumerism: Forging the New Artistic Field of Shōgyō Bijutsu, in Being Modern in Japan, edited by Tipton, E; Clark, J (2000), pp. 75-98, Sydney, Australian Humanities Research Foundation
11. Weisenfeld, GS, Designing After Disaster: Barrack Decoration and the Great Kanto Earthquake, Japanese Studies, vol. 18 no. 3 (1998), pp. 229-246 [repository]
12. Weisenfeld, GS, Mavo’s ‘Conscious Constructivism’: Art, Individualism, and Daily Life in Interwar Japan, Art Journal, vol. 55 no. 3 (Fall, 1996), pp. 64-73 [repository]