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Category: Art

Art/Gender/visual culture

Art and status and women and mirrors and…

Posted on May 15, 2020 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

This is an image from the back of a Song dynasty mirror in the collection of Martin J. Powers. As he describes it One [woman], on the right, tends a child and s...

Art/Japan/Teaching

The Chinese as children of Japan

Posted on October 23, 2015 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Above is a nice image that I use in class. I think I got it from Fairbank. I am not quite sure where it comes from, but it is clearly dealing with the Anglo-Jap...

Art/Asian American/Cultural/Museums/US-Japan/明治

Doing Ironic Irony Ironically: Play-Acting Satires of Orientalist Japonisme?

Posted on July 7, 2015 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Update at end Evan Smith of “Big, Red, and Shiny” reports: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston has found itself mired in controversy over an in-gallery ...

Art/Japan/Social History/Teaching/visual culture

Pictures of Japan

Posted on September 28, 2014 by Alan Baumler / 0 Comment

Do you teach about Japan? If so you might want to check out the Toshidma Gallery. Teaching is always better with pictures, and if you do Japan you are probably ...

Art/Japan/martial arts/Medieval/Pedagogy

Mystery Circles on Early Armor

Posted on October 1, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 5 Comments

What is that circular disk which early medieval samurai wear over their swords? Is it a weight, to keep it from flopping around while horseriding? That’s ...

Academia/Art/Japan/Museums

Samurai Exhibit Pwned

Posted on August 29, 2009 by Morgan Pitelka / 8 Comments

The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco has been targeted by an anonymous artistic and political intervention that parodies the current Lords of the Samurai exhib...

Archaeology/Art/General/Japan/photography

Cultural and Physical History Mystery

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Michelle Damian, who I met at ASPAC, has a new post up in her project journal with an intriguing mystery: One type of vessel that has intrigued me is the massiv...

Academia/Archives/Art/Cultural/General/Historiography/Japan/Maps/Museums/Teaching/Web Sites

Online Image Resources: Pedagogy and Geeky Fun

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 2 Comments

One of my projects this summer has to do with the use of images in history classes: I’m trying to improve my teaching, and perhaps help others, by scannin...

1945-1950/Art/General/Korea/Korean War/Memory/North Korea

Korean War in art

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Japan Focus has an article detailing and displaying Gobau’s Korean War art which has a plethora of arresting images. Gobau worked from the Republic of Kor...

1960s/1970s/Art/General/Korea/Nationalism/North Korea/US-Korea

North Korean Propoganda Posters

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 0 Comment

Thanks to Adam at Mutantfrog for pointing me to these North Korean Propoganda posters. I think this is my favorite but the whole group is worth a look.

Art/Current/Recent Events/Events/Japan/Museums

Samurai-related events, Bowers Museum

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Morgan Pitelka / 0 Comment

The Bowers Museum in southern California opens a new exhibition this Sunday, “Art of the Samurai: Selections from the Tokyo National Museum.” In con...

Art/Foreign Views/General/Historiography/Japan/Web Sites/江戸

Dutch Futurists

Posted on January 19, 2009 by Jonathan Dresner / 14 Comments

Alan Baumler pointed me to peacay’s recent post of Dutch images of 17th century Japan. Some of them are quite accurate — the images of samurai, in p...

Art/Japan/Libraries/Web Sites

Images of Late Medieval Disease Critters and Meiji Toys

Posted on March 16, 2008 by Morgan Pitelka / 0 Comment

Japanese historical visual materials are becoming available online in increasing quantities and variety, as seen in two posts from the last week from Pink Tenta...

Art/Colonial/Events/Korea

Exhibition: 벽(癖)의 예찬, 근대인 정해창을 말하다 2007.11.09 – 2008.02.03

Posted on January 11, 2008 by K. M. Lawson / 0 Comment

There is a wonderful photo exhibit, 벽(癖)의 예찬, 근대인 정해창을 말하다 at the Ilmin museum of art right next to 광화문 station of the works of 정해창, whose 1929 exhibition was t...

Art/Diaspora/Japan/Museums/US-Japan

Giant Robot Exhibition

Posted on November 2, 2007 by Morgan Pitelka / 1 Comment

The Japanese American National Museum once again displays its amazing ability to hone in on topics of widespread interest while still staying true to its missio...

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