Curating Contemporary Japanese Art: Exhibition Catalogue Production for Hidden Landscapes: Yasuaki Onishi and Invisible Space

<p>In the last decade, there has been a telling increase 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 Western art stage. Meanwhile, curatorial practice, once focused on the <em>care </em>of objects, is shifting to encompass a wider range of creative activity. Curators are taking time to engage with living artists in a collaborative setting, rather than as impartial facilitators. This capstone seeks to address the lack of non-Western art in the rural United States Southwest in an effort to further the academic conversation around contemporary Japanese artistic practices. Through the publication of an exhibition catalogue, Northern Arizona will have the opportunity to engage with the ongoing intercultural dialogue on the globalized artistic stage, and support the international practice of emerging contemporary artist Yasuaki Onishi.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts in Museum Studies

Level thesis:degree_level

Project/Capstone - Global access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Museum Studies

Year dc:date.available

2017

Author dc:creator

• Lawhead, Emily

Contributors dc:contributor

• Stephanie A. Brown

• museum studies
• contemporary art
• Japanese art
• curation
• curatorial studies
• Asian studies
• intercultural dialogue
• exhibition catalogue
• Yasuaki Onishi
• Asian Art and Architecture
• Interdisciplinary Arts and Media
• Japanese Studies
• Sculpture

Repository record dc:identifier

https://repository.usfca.edu/capstone/677

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.usfca.edu:capstone-1698