by Alyssa Garcia | Jan 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
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...
by Erin Wrightson | Jan 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
In 1935 in conjunction with a publishing house in Paris, the Vietnamese students of the École d’Art de Gia-Định in southern Vietnam and its French director Jules Besson released a sumptuous illustrated folio entitled Monographie Dessinée de l’Indochine intended to...
by Tyler Shine | Jan 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
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...
by Ramey Mize | Jan 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
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...
by Robyn Barrow | Jan 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
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...
by Tim Zhang | Jan 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
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...
