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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Japanese art"”.
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A Japanese Art Form Koinobori, Hospitalized Children, and Hope: A Proposal
<p>The Pacific Art League of Palo Alto is seeking $1,890.00 from The David and Lucile Packard Foundation in support of a cross-cultural, community art program designed to promote hope and well-being in hospitalized children and their families. This pilot program will be developed and implemented …
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Re-evaluating Murakami's Superflat: toward a contextualized interpretation of contemporary Japanese art
… of Edo period (1603-1868) and contemporary Japanese art. Murakami built his own production studio and branding devices as an attempt to further codify Superflat as a unique movement in Japanese art. As a result of Murakami’s tactics and the popularity of his theory in North America and …
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The Japanese Art of Listening An ethnographic investigation into the role of the listener
This project investigates the art of listening in Japan through ethnographic observation of hostesses (escorts) and listening volunteers, and an analysis of self-help literature on listening. At night clubs in Tokyo, hostesses, who are famous for being good listeners, use listening as a streetwise …
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The Image of Woman as a National Icon in Modern Japanese Art: 1890s-1930s
… the 1890s, the Meiji government established its Japanese constitution. After the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese wars, Japan colonised Taiwan and Korea and increased its military power. The Japanese artists who lived during this time were in many ways reacting to this rapid social change that …
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Curating Contemporary Japanese Art: Exhibition Catalogue Production for Hidden Landscapes: Yasuaki Onishi and Invisible Space
… of attention given to contemporary Asian artists exhibited in the United States and Europe. Since 2008, artists from China, Japan, South Korea, and Central Asia have been featured in exhibitions from the Venice Biennale to the Whitney Biennale, and are becoming ever more present on the …
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Made Visible: Women Artists and the Performance of Femininity in Modern Japanese Art, 1900-1930
… a new framework for understanding individual Japanese women artists’ work and the systems of gender oppression that characterized modern Japanese art. It does so by engaging with the visualization of Japanese women artists in the early twentieth century. In response to societal anxiety about …
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The formation of the Japanese Art Collection at the Art Gallery of South Australia 1904-1940 : tangible evidence of Bunmei Kaika.
… the refreshingly different aesthetic canon of Japanese art which was enthusiastically hailed by nineteenth century Western artists and designers. As a much sought after commodity, Japanese art was collected in unprecedented quantities throughout Europe, the British Empire and the United States. …
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RICOSTRUZIONE STORICA DEL COLLEZIONISMO D'ARTE GIAPPONESE DI ERA MEIJI IN ITALIA SETTENTRIONALE. SVILUPPI DI UN MERCATO PARALLELO AGLI SCAMBI COMMERCIALI E DIPLOMATICI.
… figures who first developed a keen interest in Japanese art and significantly influenced the enthusiasm for collecting oriental manufacturing products in Italy. They explored Japan for diplomatic reasons or in search of healthy silkworm seeds following an epidemic disease of the worms in Europe …
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Spaces of Japonisme and the Art of Whistler, Van Gogh, and Monet: Collecting, Decoration, and the japanese Other
… life and social aspirations. Many avant-garde artists in late nineteenth-century Europe collected Japanese art, particularly woodblock prints, and used this art to decorate their living spaces. In this dissertation, I studied the collections and decorations of Whistler, Van Gogh, and Monet, and …
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Art Across Borders: Japanese Artists in the United States, 1895-1955
From the 1880s to the early 1920s, hundreds of artists left Japan for the United States. The length of their stays varied from several months to several decades. Some had studied art in Tokyo, but others became interested in art after working in California. Some became successful in the American …
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Japonisme in Polish Pictorial Arts (1885 – 1939)
… 1939. It focuses mainly on painting and graphic arts, and selected aspects of photography, design and architecture. Appropriation from Japanese sources triggered the articulation of new visual and conceptual languages which helped forge new art and art educational paradigms that would define the …
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Art From Nature
… simplest aspects of nature inspires me to create art as a testament to our world. Being raised on a farm in rural Virginia gave me an appreciation of a reverence for all life. The inherent forms along with color and value establish nature as the master of aesthetics. An early introduction to …
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Viennese Japonismus and Modern Allegory in the Work of Gustav Klimt
… visual modernists was the creation of a new art that would, nevertheless, revive the essence of tradition, creating a collective aesthetic that crossed national and historical boundaries. Klimt and his close collaborators, like Josef Hoffmann, and artists engaged in the broader context of …
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The Bengal School of Art and Nihonga (19021928): Art Toward a Modern Asian Identity
… in the philosophies of two corresponding art movements, the Bengal School of Art and nihonga which are both considered to be pivotal to the development of modern Indian and Japanese art respectively. India had been ruled and colonized by Great Britain for almost a century and a half with …
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Optimization and analysis of doubly-curved Kirigami space frames
Inspired by the Japanese art of origami and kirigami, the concept of Spin-Valence is used to transform a two-dimensional sheet of metal into a three-dimensional spatial frame. Previous iterations of this design were developed by Emily Baker of the University of Arkansas, mainly by making scaled …
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Solace From Space
Shinrin-yoku or forest bathing is the Japanese art of using the forest to relax. The process takes about two hours to absorb the full benefits of the forest. This does not provide for an easy way to decompress if you are living or working in an urban environment. The expansion of urbanism and …
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Finding the Rainbow World: Transnational Queer Networks and Literary Translation in Cold War Japan
… relatively tolerant towards sexual minorities, particularly during the 1950s and 1960s, a period that coincided with a renaissance in the global circulation of Japanese art and literature in translation. Utilizing methodologies drawn from feminist studies, queer studies, and translation studies, …
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Origami as a Tool for Mathematical Investigation and Error Modelling in Origami Construction
Origami is the ancient Japanese art of paper folding. It has inspired applications in industries ranging from Bio-Medical Engineering to Architecture. This thesis reviews ways in which Origami is used in a number of fields and investigates unexplored areas providing insight and new results which …
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Interpreting Japan; Central European Design and Architecture 1920-1940
Japonisme, the area of study of "taste for things Japanese", has been a growing field within art history over the past few decades. However, the field of Central European Japonisme has, thus far, been relatively under-researched. Although a few scholars have touched upon this phenomenon (Ken …
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