Description
Japan and the West focused on points of intersection between Japan, Europe, and America from their first encounters to the present. It wove together visual art with primary and secondary source texts in order to explore historical change and continuity from multiple perspectives. Several connections to US History were drawn.
– Japan’s “closed country” policy in the age of global expansion
– Excerpts from Van Gogh’s letters
– Western liberalism and civil rights in the Meiji era
– Post-WWII woodblock prints and protest art
– Art and writing inspired by the 3.11 triple disaster
Details
July 11 – 15, 2016
8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. (Mon-Thurs) and 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m (Fri)
University of Washington, Seattle
Leader
Melanie King, Art History faculty at Seattle Central College
Books
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Voices of Early Modern Japan
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Taisho Chic: Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia, and Deco
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Precarious Japan
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Paris In Japan: The Japanese Encounter With European Painting
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March Was Made of Yarn
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Made in Japan: The Postwar Creative Print Movement
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Longfellow’s Tattoos: Tourism, Collecting, and Japan
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Japan Envisions the West: 16th-19th Century Japanese Art from Kobe City Museum
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How to Look At Japanese Art