Overview
Gennifer Weisenfeld received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in Japanese Art History. Her field of research is modern and contemporary Japanese art history, design, and visual culture. Her work explores the impact of Japan's modern sociopolitical transformations on artistic production and practice; the cultural formations of nation and empire building; Japanese modernism; the politics of the avant-garde; the visual culture of disaster; commercial design; and the relationship between high art and popular culture.
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Walter H. Annenberg Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History
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2024 - Present
Art, Art History & Visual Studies,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor in the Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies
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2013 - Present
Art, Art History & Visual Studies,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Core Faculty in the Asian/Pacific Studies Institute
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1998 - Present
University Initiatives & Academic Support Units
Recent Publications
The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928-1930
Book · January 2, 2024 A delightful, eye-opening journey through an ambitious periodical that helped shape graphic design in Japan, with introductory texts by arthistorian Gennifer Weisenfeild and colorful facsimile highlights from all 24 original volumes ... ... CiteGas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan
Book · 2023 Gas Mask Nation explores the multilayered construction of an anxious yet perversely pleasurable visual culture of Japanese civil air defense—or bōkū—through a diverse range of artworks, photographs, films and newsreels, magazine illustrations, postcards, c ... CiteHokusai’s Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon
Book Review · January 7, 2017 Review of Christine Guth's "Hokusai’s Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon" ... CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
Princeton University ·
1997
Ph.D.
Princeton University ·
1992
M.A.
Wesleyan University ·
1987
B.A.