Lecture series Modernists on the Move: The Great Kanto Earthquake and the Modernist Imagination

14:00–16:00
The Museum Of Modern Art, Hayama, Auditorium

Lecturer
Gennifer Weisenfeld is Walter H. Annenberg Distinguished Professor in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University. Her field of research is modern and contemporary Japanese art history, design, and visual culture. Her first book, Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1931 (University of California Press, 2002) addresses the relationship between high art and mass culture in the aesthetic politics of the avant-garde in 1920s Japan. Her second book, Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923 (University of California Press, 2012, Japanese edition Seidosha, 2014) examines how visual culture has mediated the historical understanding of Japan’s worst national disaster of the twentieth century. Her third book, Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan (University of Chicago Press, 2023) explores the anxious pleasures of Japanese visual culture during World War II. She has published extensively on the history of Japanese design, including a core essay for MIT’s award-winning website Visualizing Cultures on the Shiseido cosmetic company’s advertising design. She has a forthcoming book on the history of Japanese commercial art and design titled The Fine Art of Persuasion: Corporate Advertising Design, Nation, and Empire in Modern Japan (Duke University Press).
 
Place: HAYAMA, Auditorium
Date: Saturday, November 4, 2023
Time: 14:00–16:00
 
* Admission is free.
* First 60 applicants with a numbered ticket to participate in the event. It is handed out from 13:00 in the foyer of the auditorium. A separate ticket is required to enter the exhibition.
* The lecture is given in English with consecutive interpretation into Japanese.
 
See the exhibition info: “The Future 100 Years Ago: Modernists on the Move 1920-1930”