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