Abstract of Final Papers

The intrinsic properties of ruins associated with Western ideology—their insistence on the acknowledgment of the passage of time, their commemorative assertions revivifying historical events within collective memory, their inspiration of stylistic eclecticism and...

Photography was quickly recognized and adopted as a tool for nation building in the competitive milieu of the nineteenth century. In this way, photography fulfilled the twin demands of imperialism to categorize and organize the world. The modern sovereign embodying...

This paper posits the synthetic dye “Prussian blue” as a vibrant point of illumination in the study of the cultural entanglements that occurred between Japan and the West in the wake of the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Over the course of the nineteenth century, Western...

At the end of the 19th century, Denmark, like Meiji Japan, was asserting itself as a modern nation. By probing distant coastal communications, this essays seeks to push the edges of our map to the north, to consider the ways in which Japonisme was mobilized in Danish...

Since the Meiji period, binary concepts such as “fine art” and “craft,” as well as “Nihonga (Japanese painting),” and “Yōga (Western painting)” have been institutionalized in Japan. However, Kamisaka Sekka (1866-1942), a painter and designer frequently recognized as...