JEA Lecture Series 2, July 10th at 6:45pm
JEA Lecture Series 2: “The Politics of Painting: Fascism and Japanese Art during the Second World War”
Speaker: Dr. Asato Ikeda (Fordham University, NY)
Date: Wednesday July 10, 2019
Location & Time: KIBER 110 18:45-20:30
This presentation will examine a set of paintings produced in Japan during the 1930s and early 1940s that have received little scholarly attention. These works by prominent artists of the time are viewed through the lens of fascism, showing how seemingly straightforward paintings of Mount Fuji, samurai, beautiful women, and the country side supported the war by reinforcing a state ideology that justified violence in the name of the country’s cultural authenticity.
Biography
Asato Ikeda is Assistant Professor of Asian Art at Fordham University, NY. She is the co-editor of Art and War in Japan and its Empire (Brill, 2012) and the co-author of A Third Gender: Beautiful Youth in Japanese Prints (Royal Ontario Museum/Hotei, 2016). She has also published in Japan Focus, Transgender Studies Quarterly, and modernism/modernity.