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 Recent Faculty Publications

Books

1. Weisenfeld, GS. The Fine Art of Persuasion: Corporate Advertising Design, Nation, and Empire in Modern Japan. Duke University Press, (2025). (in preparation) [doi]  [abs]
2. Weisenfeld, G. The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928-1930. Letterform Archive Books, (January, 2024).  [abs]
3. Weisenfeld, GS. Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan. University of Chicago Press, (2023).  [abs]
4. 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]
5.  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).
6. 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).