| Gennifer Weisenfeld, Professor of Art, Art History and Visual Studies
Please note: Gennifer has left the "Office of the Dean" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date. Gennifer Weisenfeld received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in Japanese Art History. Her field of research is modern and contemporary Japanese art history, design, and visual culture. Her work explores 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; the visual culture of disaster; commercial design; and the relationship between high art and popular culture.
- Contact Info:
Office Location: | 114 S. Buchanan Blvd. Smith Warehouse 10, Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708 | Office Phone: | (919) 684-6051 | Email Address: | | Teaching (Fall 2024):
- VMS 219S.01, THE TOKYO IDEA
Synopsis
- Class Bldg 101, MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
- (also cross-listed as AMES 258S.01, ARTHIST 219S.01)
- VMS 523S.01, IMAGING A NATION
Synopsis
- Class Bldg 101, W 03:05 PM-05:35 PM
- (also cross-listed as AMES 566S.01)
- Office Hours:
- Wednesdays 11:30-1:00
- Education:
Ph.D. | Princeton University | 1997 |
M.A. | Princeton University | 1992 |
B.A. | Wesleyan University | 1987 |
- Specialties:
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Japanese Art
Art History Visual Studies/Visual Culture Modern Art History of Photography Design History Visual Culture of Disaster
- Research Interests:
Gennifer Weisenfeld received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in Japanese Art History. Her field of research is modern and contemporary Japanese art history, design, and visual culture. Her work explores 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; the visual culture of disaster; commercial design; and the relationship between high art and popular culture.
- Keywords:
- Art--History • Design and history • Disasters • History
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- 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]
- Weisenfeld, GS, Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1931
(2002), Berkeley, University of California Press, ISBN 0520223381 [book.php] [abs]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Weisenfeld, GS, Designing After Disaster: Barrack Decoration and the Great Kanto Earthquake,
Japanese Studies, vol. 18 no. 3
(1998),
pp. 229-246 [repository]
- 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]
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