CAA 2008 (Dallas)
Japanese art sessions and papers
Beyond the West: Asian Modernism and Design
Wednesday, February 20, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Dallas Ballroom D3, 1st Floor, Adam's Mark Hotel
Chair: Daniel Huppatz, Pratt Institute
Charles and Ray Eames in India
Saloni Mathur, University of California, Los Angeles
Pang Xunqin: Assimilating the World and the Native in Modern Design
Xiaoqing Zhu, University of Maryland
In the Name of "Modernization": The Design of the Chairman Mao Memorial and the Rise and Fall of Hua Guofeng
Shuishan Yu, Oakland University
Asian Modernities and Olympic Games: The Cases of Japan and China
Jilly Traganou, Parsons the New School for Design
Discussant: Sarah Teasley, Northwestern University
Japonisme/Occidentalism
Wednesday, February 20, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Austin Ballroom 1, 2nd Floor, Adam's Mark Hotel
Chair: Christopher G. Reed, Pennsylvania State University
The Construction of Continuity: Edmond de Goncourt’s Japonisme
Pamela Warner, University of Rhode Island
Decadence: Japanese Painterly Responses to Japonisme, 1893-1910
Chelsea Foxwell, Columbia University
Marketing Cultural Fantasy: Japan’s Teahouse at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Hsuan Tsen, Stanford University
French Body Orientalized: Tsuguharu Foujita’s Reclining Nudes of the Early 1920s
Ikuyo Nakagawa, City University of New York
Kandinsky and the Utopian in Japanese Modernism
Alicia Volk, University of Maryland
Cute
Thursday, February 21, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Houston Ballroom C, 3rd Floor, Adam's Mark Hotel
Chairs: Jillian Saint Jacques, Jan van Eyck Academie; Yasco Horsman, Leiden University
Not So Cute: Kawaii as Critique
Kirstin Ringelberg, Elon University
Transplants: "Foreign" Objects in Visual Culture
Friday, February 22, 2:30 PM–5:00 PM
Austin Ballroom 3, 2nd Floor, Adam's Mark Hotel
Chairs: Krista Geneviève Lynes, San Francisco Art Institute; Eva Hayward, University of New Mexico
To China and Back: Circularities in European Art and Gardens, 1700-1900
Greg M. Thomas, University of Hong Kong
Chlorophyll Prints: Transmigrations of Memories and Bodies
Binh Dahn, independent artist, San Jose
Monstrous Demonstrations: Bioteknica and the Tissue Culture & Art Project's Teratological Prototypes
Lindsay Kelley, University of California, Santa Cruz
Malraux's Buddha Heads
Gregory Levine, University of California, Berkeley
Art of Transculturation: Imperial Artists, Borders, and Encounters
Saturday, February 23, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Dallas Ballroom A2, 1st Floor, Adam's Mark Hotel
Chair: Julie Codell, Arizona State University
“Bronzed and Muscular Bodies”: Jinrikishas, Tattooed Bodies, and Yokohama Tourist Photography
Luke Gartlan, University of St. Andrews
Imaging Dance: What Paintings, Sculptures, Prints, and Photographs of Dancers Reveal--and/or Conceal
Saturday, February 23, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Dallas Ballroom A3, 1st Floor, Adam's Mark Hotel
Chair: Nancy G. Heller, University of the Arts
Dance as a Weapon: Isamu Noguchi's "History as Seen From Mexico, 1936"
Ellen G. Landau, Case Western Reserve University
The Sculptor and the Garden
Saturday, February 23, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Austin Ballroom 2, 2nd Floor, Adam's Mark Hotel
Chairs: Claire Black McCoy, Columbus State University; Mara Adamitz Scrupe, Columbus State University
Isamu Noguchi's Landscape as Sculpture
Larry List, independent curator, New York