Duke University - Art, Art History & Visual Studies

Selected Publications

• • Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923.
  • Berkeley, University of California Press,
  • Fall, 2012.
  • [web]
  • [Imaging Disaster Flyer]
• • Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1931.
  • Berkeley, University of California Press,
  • 2002.
  • [web]
• • "Japanese Typographic Design and the Art of Letterforms."
  • Bridges to Heaven: Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Wen C. Fong.
  • Ed. Jerome Silbergeld and Dora C.Y. Ching.
  • P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press,
  • 2011.
  • 827-848.
  • [Japanese Typographic Design and the Art of Letterforms]
• • "The Expanding Arts of the Interwar Period."
  • Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868-2000.
  • Ed. J. Thomas Rimer.
  • University of Hawaii Press,
  • 2011.
  • 66-98.
  • [web]
• • "Publicity and Propaganda in 1930s Japan: Modernism as Method."
  • Design Issues
  • 25
  • .4
  • MIT Press,
  • (Fall, 2009)
  • :
  • 13-28.
  • [Publicity and Propaganda]
• • "Selling Shiseido: Japanese Cosmetics Advertising and Design in the Early 20th-Century."
  • 2008.
  • (Visualizing Cultures Website, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • [web]
• • "Saigai to Shikaku: Kantō Daishinsai no Shikaku Hyōshō o Megutte” (Disaster and Vision: On the Visual Representations of the Great Kantō Earthquake)."
  • Kioku to Rekishi: Nihon ni okeru Kako no Shikakuka o megutte (Memory and History: Visualising the Past in Japan).
  • Ed. Tano Yasunori.
  • Tokyo:
  • Waseda Daigaku Aizu Yaiichi Kinen Hakubutsukan,
  • 2007.
  • 42-53.
  • [Saigai to Shikaku]
• • "Publicité et propagande dans le Japon des années 1930: Le modernisme comme méthode."
  • La société Japonaise devant la montée du militarisme: Culture populaire et contrôle social dans les années 1930.
  • Ed. Jean-Jacques Tschudin and Claude Hamon.
  • Arles:
  • Editions Philippe Picquier,
  • 2007.
  • 47-70.
• • "Reinscribing Tradition in a Transnational Art World."
  • Asian Art History in the Twenty-First Century (Clark Studies in the Visual Arts).
  • Ed. Vishakha Desai.
  • Williamstown, MA:
  • Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, MA,
  • 2007.
  • 181-198.
  • [web]
  • [Reinscribing Tradition]
• • "“Women and Words: Two Language Artists in Contemporary Japan."
  • Persistence/Transformation: Text as Image in the Art of Xu Bing.
  • Ed. Jerome Silbergeld and Dora C.Y. Ching.
  • P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press,
  • 2006.
  • 59-85.
  • [Women and Words]
• • "‘From Baby’s First Bath’: Kao Soap and Modern Japanese Commercial Design."
  • The Art Bulletin
  • LXXXVI
  • .3
  • (September 2004)
  • :
  • 573-598.
  • [From Baby's First Bath]
• • "Nihon ni okeru shōgyō dezainshi to sono kenkyū (Art History and the Study of Japanese Commercial Design)."
  • Bijutsu Forum
  • 21
  • (2001)
  • :
  • 123-130.
• • "Touring ‘Japan as Museum’: NIPPON and Other Japanese Imperialist Travelogues."
  • Positions
  • .
  • Visual Cultures of Japanese Imperialism.
  • Ed. Gennifer Weisenfeld.
  • 8
  • .3
  • (2000)
  • :
  • 747-793.
  • [Touring Japan as Museum]
• • "Japanese Modernism and Consumerism: Forging the New Artistic Field of Shōgyō Bijutsu."
  • Being Modern in Japan.
  • Ed. Elise Tipton and John Clark.
  • Sydney, Australian Humanities Research Foundation,
  • 2000.
  • 75-98.
  • [Japanese Modernism and Consumerism]
• • "Designing After Disaster: Barrack Decoration and the Great Kanto Earthquake."
  • Japanese Studies
  • 18
  • .3
  • (1998)
  • :
  • 229-246.
  • [Designing After Disaster]
• • "Mavo’s ‘Conscious Constructivism’: Art, Individualism, and Daily Life in Interwar Japan."
  • Art Journal
  • 55
  • .3
  • (1996)
  • :
  • 64-73.
  • [Mavo's Conscious Constructivism]