Report on the 2024 Off-Campus Seminar for Art History (Faculty of Arts)

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This year, the graduate students participated in off-campus training in Taiwan, while the undergraduate students participated in off-campus training in Japan.
Students from the undergraduate school participated in ① a three-day, two-night overnight training session from Friday, November 11th to Sunday, November 15th, and ② a one-day training session on Friday, December 17th.
Participating students: 9 undergraduate students, Supervising teacher: Michiko Hayashi

11/15
AtamiMOA Museum of ArtGather at.
At the special exhibition "Korin: National Treasure "Red and White Plum Blossoms Screen" x Important Cultural Property "Wind Gods and Thunder Gods Screen"," we viewed many Rinpa works collected from the MOA Museum of Art's collection and other art galleries and museums. Since it wasn't too crowded, we were able to take a good look at masterpieces such as the "Red and White Plum Blossoms Screen." After that, we went to the vast garden. The students took lots of photos of the restored Korin Mansion, the various flowers blooming in the tea garden, and the bamboo grove.
Move to Odawara Station and stay overnight in Odawara.

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First thing in the morning, I went to Hakone and visited Sengokuhara.Paula MuseumWhat.
In the auditorium, curator Hiroshi Tokai gave a detailed explanation of the museum's architecture, collection, and operations, as well as an overview of the currently running "Philippe Parreno: This Place, That Sky" exhibition, before moving on to the exhibition room. We viewed a number of surprising video works and installations. After touring the collection exhibition, we headed to the outdoor promenade, where we also enjoyed the contemporary art works installed in the forest. As a pre-examination assignment, each student had written a commentary on a piece of art chosen from the museum's collection, so they were able to carefully view the artworks while reading the writings of other students.

　 　

after that,The Hakone Open-Air MuseumWe walked around the large grounds and enjoyed the view. On the way, it started to rain, and I realized how quickly the weather can change in the mountains.


Return to Odawara and stay there for a second night.

September fifteenth on Sunday
In the morning, I went back to Hakone and visited Kowakudani.Okada Museum of ArtWe left all our belongings, including our smartphones, and went through a metal detector before heading to the exhibition room with just the clothes on our backs. There was a huge collection of oriental ceramics, modern Japanese ceramics, and early modern Japanese paintings. There was an overwhelming number of items, and we could never finish looking. Some students soaked in the foot bath just outside to soothe their tired feet after three days.
They then disbanded.

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12/6
MitoIbaraki Prefectural Museum of Modern ArtGather at.
Museum director Toru Arayashiki gave a lecture in the lecture room explaining the intention behind the special exhibition "100 Years After the Death of Nakamura Tsutomu" and the innovative ideas behind the displays, after which we were able to freely explore the exhibition room.
The paintings of Nakamura Ito, who died young from illness, were displayed by genre, including numerous related materials that show how he learned about Western painting from magazines and art books and applied them to his own work. More than giving a clear picture of the transitions in his artistic career, the exhibition also touched my heart with Yi's struggle to survive. After viewing the related exhibits in the collection exhibition, I also visited Nakamura Ito's studio, which had been relocated next to the museum. The maple trees were colored bright red, and there was a single red birdcage, which is also depicted in one of the paintings. The scenery that Nakamura Ito saw was reproduced.

University of Tsukuba Art Studies and Art History Society will hold the 24rd Autumn Research Presentation

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The 6 Autumn Research Presentation will be held both in-person and online simultaneously as shown below.The program is as follows.We look forward to your participation.

[Date and time] Sunday, December 2024, 12 8:14-00:16 (Registration from 00:13)
[Venue] Face-to-face (Conference Room B203, Arts Building, University of Tsukuba) and simultaneous online delivery via Zoom
If you are a member and would like to participate online, please see the information that has already been mailed to you or contact us at the address below.
geigaku[@]geijutsu.tsukuba.ac.jp

[Research presentation]
Mao Hisamitsu (Curator, Shimonoseki City Museum of Art)
A Study on the Kazuki Yasuo Collection at the Shimonoseki City Museum of Art
Yosuke Hamada (Curator, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art)
George Nakashima and Ben Shahn: Art as Interior Design in the "1st George Nakashima Exhibition"

Public Research Seminar: What are plaster sculptures? Their materials and techniques

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Date and Time　Saturday, October 2024, 10 26:13-30:16 (doors open at 13:XNUMX)
Venue　University of Tsukuba Tokyo Campus Bunkyo Building 116th classroom (3-29-1 Otsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo [approximately 3 minutes walk from Myogadani Station on the Marunouchi Subway Line])
Organizer　JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) 24K03482 "Making plaster casts into academic resources and constructing art history from a non-Western perspective centered on sculpture history"

Plaster casts based on ancient and early modern Western sculptures were introduced to Japan during the Meiji period with the art education system and have been widely used mainly as teaching materials for drawing. Although these plaster casts have been taken up in the context of tracing the establishment and development of drawing education, they have rarely been discussed directly in art history research rooted in the modern Western values ​​that differentiate and stratify originals and copies, and works and non-works. This workshop will focus on materials and techniques as the first step in an effort to systematize plaster casts in the history of sculpture and to consider their reception and transformation in Japan and other East Asian countries as an active and multi-dimensional manifestation of de-Westernization, rather than a passive and monistic phenomenon of Westernization. The presenters will be Soji Wakimoto, one of the few remaining plaster cast makers in Japan, and Yuji Takahashi, who has worked on many restorations of sculptures by living and deceased artists, including existing early plaster casts.

 

purpose explanation　Rintaro Terakado (University of Tsukuba/Principal Investigator)

Report 1　Soji Wakimoto (produced by Hori Gypsum)

Report 2　Yuji Takahashi (Bronze Studio Ltd.)

General Discussion+ Regarding the "Hercules Full-Length Statue" by Kikuchi Plaster Model Studio (owned by the University of Tsukuba)

Soji Wakimoto, Yuji Takahashi, Nao Kanai (Shinshu University/Research Co-researcher), Shuji Tanaka (Nihon University/Same), Shinya Araki (Tama Art University/Same)

 

Kikuchi Plaster Model Studio "Hercules Full-Length Statue" 1914-43?

Plaster Height 74cm
University of Tsukuba Art Collection
Photo © Yoshiki Shigematsu

Report on off-campus training in Taiwan (for graduate students)

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From Friday, September 9th to Monday, September 20rd, we visited Taipei City for an off-campus seminar (graduate school) in the field of art history.

(7 Master's students and 1 supervising teacher: Michiko Hayashi)

Day 1 Travel day. After gathering at the accommodation, we enjoyed Taiwanese round table cuisine.

Day 2 At National University of Teacher EducationTaiwan-Japan Art History Graduate Students' SymposiumParticipated in the symposium. Fifteen people gave presentations in English on specific topics in art history research, and three students from the Master's Program in Art Studies from our university took the stage. This symposium has been held annually by the art history research labs of five Taiwanese universities (National Normal University, National Taiwan University, National Central University, Kyushu University, and University of Tsukuba). It began in 15, but was not held for four years due to the COVID-3 pandemic, so this was the ninth time it was held, and we were delighted to be reunited after a long time. There was lively discussion and good research exchange.

　

Day 3 Visit to Taipei City Museum and Art Museum.

Based on their prior learning, the students in charge of each library gave a short presentation and then each participant toured the library on their own.

①The Palace Museum

②Taipei Fine Arts Museum

③National Taiwan Museum

④Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art

Although it started to rain heavily halfway through the tour, we still had a fulfilling time appreciating the art.

Day 4  After some free time in the city, we returned home.

Publication information: Noriko Kuwahara, "Japan-U.S. Exchanges in Postwar Prints 1945-1965"

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We would like to introduce a new book by Noriko Kuwahara, who received her doctorate in art from our university in 2002, "Japan-US Exchange in Postwar Prints 1945-1965." This book is her second solo work, following "A Study of Onchi Koshiro: Modernism in Prints" (Serika Shobo, 2012; winner of the Ringa Art Encouragement Award). In this book, she examines the 20 years of Japan-US exchange in printmaking from the end of the war to the time of the Tokyo Olympics, that is, from the occupation period to the beginning of the Cold War, by exploring materials left in research institutions and museum archives in both Japan and the US, as well as in the homes of surviving family members. Through meticulous research, she sheds light on the question of why creative prints, which did not receive much attention before the war, were able to gain high acclaim after the war, and what factors led to this situation.

 

Author: Noriko Kuwahara
Format: A5
Number of pages: 339
Price: 4000 yen + tax
ISBN 978-4-7967-0400-7
Issue date: July 2024, 7
Publisher: Serika Shobo

The contents of the book are introduced in detail on the Kashima Art Foundation Publishing Grant website.
https://kajima-fa.or.jp/report/publishing/bk24-06/