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The University of Tsukuba Art Studies and Art History Society held the 2 Autumn Research Presentation.

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An online conference using ZOOM was held on Sunday, November 2020, 11 from 29:14 to 16:2021. Two researchers, both of whom majored in art history at our university's graduate school, are currently active as museum curators. We announced the results.The summary will be included in "University of Tsukuba Art and Art History Society/Society News" No. 6, scheduled to be published around June 18.

Kazumi Akama (Miyagi Prefectural Museum of Art)
“About Seiyosha—Focusing on Makoto Ishikawa and Kingo Otsuka”
Tamaki Ito (Yanaizu Town Kiyoshi Saito Art Museum)
“About Kiyoshi Saito in the 1960s”

Participated in Japan-Taiwan Five University Art History Graduate Students' Symposium 2019

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On December 2019, 12, 22 graduate students and 3 faculty members from master's and doctoral programs in art (art history) held the Japan-Taiwan Five University Graduate School Art History Research Exchange Meeting at Kyushu University. I participated in.One person from our university gave an oral presentation in English.This is the ninth time this graduate student symposium has been held, and a total of five universities are participating: Kyushu University and the University of Tsukuba from Japan, and National Taiwan University, National Central University, and National Taiwan Normal University from Taiwan.This time, 2 people made ambitious presentations, and there was a lively Q&A session.

Presenters from our university:
Emiko Kawamura KAWAMURA Emiko
A Study of Japan's Artist Associations and Cultural Control by GHQ/SCAP

　

[Art History] Professor Jennifer Weisenfeld of Duke University gave a special lecture.

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Dr. Gennifer Weisenfeld

“Protect the Skies!” Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan
Protect the sky! Regarding Japan's air defense image during the war

July 2019, 7 (Tuesday) 23th period (4:13-45:15)
University of Tsukuba Arts Building B203 Conference Room

 

Jennifer Weisenfeld, a professor at Duke University in the United States who studies Japanese modernist art, gave a special lecture.The theme is the relationship between Japan's wartime air defense and popular culture.Photographer Masao Horino's 1936 Gas Mask March depicts female students wearing gas masks marching through the city as part of an air defense exercise.Centering on this photo, he talked about the many facets of the image of air defense.The fear of air attack creates the ritualized gesture of air defense drills, and campaigns for air defense fashion and products stimulate consumers' desire to purchase, creating a sense of duty and satisfaction, fear and joy, death and sensuality. , images of monsters and eroticism (as evoked by gas masks), and seem to have created ambivalent desires in times of emergency.Through the lecture, I was able to realize once again that militarism and modern popular culture are two sides that cannot be separated.This special lecture was held as part of the specialized subject ``Art History Seminar A-1'' held by the College of Arts and Sciences, and was attended not only by the 12 students but also by master's and doctoral students as well as students in the doctoral program in the humanities and social sciences. A total of 30 participants attended, including students and art faculty.Furthermore, after the lecture, a question-and-answer session and lively discussion were held, providing an opportunity for participants to exchange information about their research.

GENNIFER WEISENFELD, Professor in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies and Dean of the Humanities at Duke University, received her Ph.D. from Princeton University. Her field of research is modern and contemporary Japanese art history, design, and visual culture. Her first book Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1931 (University of California Press, 2002) addresses the relationship between high art and mass culture in the aesthetic politics of the avant-garde in 1920s Japan. her most recent book Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 (University of California Press, 2012, Japanese edition Seidosha, 2014) examines how visual culture has mediated the historical understanding of Japan's worst national disaster of the twentieth century . She is the guest editor of the special issue Visual Cultures of Japanese Imperialism of the journal positions: east asia cultures critique (Winter 2000) that includes her essay, “Touring 'Japan as Museum': NIPPON and Other Japanese Imperialist Travelogues.” She has also written mainly on the history of Japanese design, such as, “'From Baby's First Bath': Kaō Soap and Modern Japanese Commercial Design” (The Art Bulletin, September 2004) and the core essay on MIT's award-winning website Visualizing Cultures on the Shiseido company's advertising design. She is currently working on two new book projects, one titled The Fine Art of Persuasion: Corporate Advertising Design, Nation, and Empire in Modern Japan, and the other, Protect the Skies! Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan.

 

[Art History] University of Tsukuba Art Studies and Art History Society Spring Research Presentation　

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The University of Tsukuba Society of Art Studies and Art History will hold a spring research presentation.

●April 2019, 4 (Sunday) 21:13 to 15:XNUMX

●University of Tsukuba Art Building B203 Conference Room

●Free/Anyone can participate

 

●Research presentation

Chinatsu Arisu (Doctoral Program in Art, Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences, University of Tsukuba)

“Shiko Munakata on the international stage—Relationship with the Zen boom abroad”

Emiko Kawamura (same as above)

“Emerging research on Japanese art organizations—focusing on honors and exhibitions around the 1980s”

 

 

 

 

[Art History] Mr. Toshio Watanabe from the Sainsbury Institute of Japanese Art in the UK gave a special lecture.

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Special lecture “The front and back of Anglo-American Japonisme research”
December 2018, 12 (Thursday) 6rd period (3:12-15:13)
University of Tsukuba Arts Building B203 Conference Room

Lecturer: Professor Toshio Watanabe (Ph. D.)
Graduated from Sophia University and received a Ph.D. from the University of Basel.He was a professor at Chelsea College, University of the Arts London (UAL), and is currently a professor at the Sainsbury Institute of Japanese Arts.His books include High Victorian Japonisme (1991), Japan and Britain: An Aesthetic Dialogue 1850-1930 (1991), and Ruskin in Japan 1890-1940: Nature for art, art for life (1997).He has served as president of the British Art History Society and as a trustee of Tate Britain. 2004 University of the Arts London (UAL) Research Center for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (Train)
Established.

Approximately XNUMX people participated, including art faculty, humanities and social science faculty, master's and doctoral students, undergraduate students, and non-degree students, as well as graduate students from Tokyo University of the Arts. There was attendance.
The content of the special lecture will be to carefully trace the ``research history'' of Anglo-American Japonisme research from before the 1960s, to the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and after 2001, and will introduce must-read books in English, German, and French. It explained the excellent points of the research.On the other hand, there were some in-depth comments, such as mentioning research books that were bestsellers but had problems with their content, which gave us a chance to learn about the behind-the-scenes aspects of research.The lecturer taught that Japonism is more than just art, that it requires a transnational perspective, not just East and West, and that we should be aware of the borders of images that come and go because there are holes in the boundaries of national borders. This lecture, in which he explained in detail the theory and methods of Japonisme research based on his own research history, was a unique opportunity for the participants to reflect on their own research and learn about the latest research trends.

【Art History】Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures Special Lecture by Professor Toshio Watanabe

Special lecture “The two sides of British and American Japonisme Research”
Thursday, December 6, 2018 3rdperiod (12:15 pm–1:30 pm)
University of Tsukuba Institute of Art and Design B203 Conference Room

Speaker: Professor Toshio Watanabe (Ph. D.)
Professor Watanabe is a graduate from Sophia University who received his doctorate from the University of Basel. After teaching at the University of the Arts London (UAL) Chelsea College of Arts, he became a professor at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, where he still teaches today. Books written by Professor Watanabe include High Victorian Japonisme (1991); Japan and Britain: An Aesthetic Dialogue 1850–1930 (1991); and Ruskin in Japan 1890–1940: Nature for art, art for life (1997). He was formerly the Chairman of the Japan Art History Society and a Council Member of Tate Britain. In 2004, he established the Research Center for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (Train) at the University of the Arts London (UAL ).

 

In addition to attendees from this university, including Art and Design faculty members, Humanities and Social Sciences faculty members, students from the Master's and doctoral programs, college students, and non-degree students, we were joined by graduate students from the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. In total, around 35 people were present on the day.
The special lecture elaborated the “history of research” with regard to British and American Japonisme research, starting from the pre-1960s' era to the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2001 onward. With reference to important English, German, and French books, he spoke about the prominent issues of previous research. He also offered in-depth commentary, including references to studies that were problematic in terms of content, despite being best-seller books. This taught us about the other side of research. This lecture detailed the theories and techniques of Japonisme research on top of Professor Watanabe's own research history, as we learned that Japonisme is not limited to fine art; that we need not only an East and West perspective, but a transnational one; and that we must become conscious of the image of a porous national border as it comes and goes. This was a unique opportunity where those present were able to learn about new research trends as they reflected on their own research.