Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

Japanese/Korean Art
Dissertations Completed by Subject, 2012

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Choi, Yookyoung, “Globalization and the Formation of Asian American Identity in the Art Works of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Yong Soon Min, and Nikki S. Lee” (Maryland, College Park, J. Shannon)

Fujii, Yuko, “Provoke: A Critical Analysis of a Japanese Photography Magazine” (CUNY, G. Batchen)

Kai, Yoshiaki, “Sunappu: A Genre of Japanese Photography, 1930–1980” (CUNY, G. Batchen)

Kang, In hye, “World Display, Imperial Time: The Temporal and Visual Articulation of Empire in Japanese Exhibitions, 1890–1945” (McGill, H. Nakatani, T. Lamarre)

Kehoe, Sinead “Pictures of Patriarchs: The Illustrated Life and Acts of Hōnen” (Princeton, Y. Shimizu)

Kelley, Erin, “Confronting Modernity: Shirakaba and the Japanese Avant-Garde” (Pennsylvania, J. Davis)

Oh, Younjung, “Art into Everyday Life: Department Stores as Purveyors of Culture in Modern Japan” (USC, J. Reynolds)

Yoshitake, Mika, “Lee Ufan and the Art of Mono-ha in Postwar Japan (1968–1972)” (UCLA, M. Kwon, G. Baker)