Scholar Spotlight – The Politics of Painting: Uemura Shoen’s Bijin-ga – a Culture interest event taking place on 2018-09-07 18:30:00 in United States
Scholar Spotlight – The Politics of Painting: Uemura Shoen's Bijin-ga Presented by the Japan Information & Culture Center, Embassy of Japan Image: Snow, by Uemura Shoen, Shohaku Art Museum, Nara, Nara, Japan Asato Ikeda will be presenting from her new book, “The Politics of Painting: Fascism and Japanese Art during the Second World War” (Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 2018). The book examines a set of paintings produced in Japan during the 1930s and early 1940s that have received little scholarly attention. Ikeda views works by prominent artists of the time through the lens of fascism, showing their seemingly straightforward paintings of Mount Fuji, samurai, beautiful women, and the countryside supported the war by reinforcing a state ideology that justified violence in the name of the country’s cultural authenticity. In the presentation, Ikeda will focus on paintings of beautiful women by Uemura Shoen, a female Japanese-style painter. About the Presenter Asato Ikeda, originally from Tokyo, Japan, received her B.A. from the University of Victoria in 2006, her M.A. from Carlton University in 2008, and her Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 2012. Her research interests lie in modern Japanese art in particular and Asian art in general, and the topics of imperialism/colonialism, war, fascism, museums, sex, gender, and sexuality. Her scholarship, “The Politics of Painting: Fascism and Japanese Art during the Second World War,” was published this year (Honolulu: University of Hawaii, 2018). Ikeda has also co-edited the first English-language anthology on the topic of Japanese war art, Art and War in Japan and its Empire, 1931-1960, and she has been active as a curator, keen to engage with the public about important social and political issues through art. More recently, she has curated the exhibition A Third Gender: Beautiful Youths in Japanese Prints at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada. Ikeda is currently an Assistant Professor of Art History at Fordham University in New York. This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required for security purposes. Program begins at 6:30 PM. Doors open 30 minutes prior. No admission or re-entry will be permitted after 7:00 PM. Registered guests will be seated on a first come, first served basis. Please arrive early as seating is limited and registration does not guarantee guests a seat.
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