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.This workshop has two presenters. For each, please watch or read the materials in advance of the workshop.
Topic: Imagining and Imaging Meiji Japan
Speaker: Bruce Coats, Scripps College
The introduction of Western arts, especially photography, to 19th century Japan greatly changed how Japanese artists imagined and imaged their worlds. Prof. Coats will look at two woodblock print artists who documented the dramatic changes happening in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) through depictions of urban life, politics and foreign wars. Prof. Coats teaches art, history and humanities and is the director of the Clark Humanities Museum. He was one of the first in the U.S. to create interactive exhibition on Japan. That Smithsonian exhibition focused on Edo. He also worked with the Smithsonian Channel to create a documentary on Japanese gardens.
Topic: Canons and Cannons: Japanese Public Exhibitions in the First Half of the 20th Century
Speaker: Noriko Aso, University of California, Santa Cruz
Prof. Aso teaches history and heads the East Asian Studies Program at UCSC. Her teaching interests include Japan, gender, race and ethnicity, as well as nationalism, pop culture and material culture. Her works include a study of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics Art Festival, as well as Public Properties: Museums in Imperial Japan (2013) and Mitsukoshi: Consuming Places (2019). She's discussed the latter multimedia project and other innovations in pedagogy in many forums, including the Association for Asian Studies annual conference.
