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Gennifer Weisenfeld

Gennifer Weisenfeld

Walter H. Annenberg Distinguished Professor of Art and Art History
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
gennifer.weisenfeld@duke.edu
Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708
114 S. Buchanan Blvd. Smith Warehouse 10, Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Publications

Gas 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 ... Cite

Hokusai’s Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon

Other · January 7, 2017 Review of Christine Guth's "Hokusai’s Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon" ... Cite

Die Verbildlichung der Katastrophe in Japan

Chapter · 2014 Exhibition Catalogue ... Cite

Imaging Disaster Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923

Book · November 14, 2012 Imaging Disaster is a rich social history of Japan’s Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. ... Cite

The Expanding Arts of the Interwar Period

Chapter · 2011 Featured Publication Cite

Publicity and Propaganda in 1930s Japan: Modernism as Method

Journal Article Design Issues · October 2009 Featured Publication Open Access Cite

Reinscribing Tradition in a Transnational Art World

Chapter · 2007 Featured Publication Asian Art History in the Twenty-First Century explores the field of Asian art and its historiography, tensions, and possible future directions. ... Open Access Cite

‘From Baby’s First Bath’: Kao Soap and Modern Japanese Commercial Design

Journal Article The Art Bulletin · September 2004 Featured Publication Open Access Cite

Gas 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 ... Cite

Hokusai’s Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon

Other · January 7, 2017 Review of Christine Guth's "Hokusai’s Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon" ... Cite

Die Verbildlichung der Katastrophe in Japan

Chapter · 2014 Exhibition Catalogue ... Cite

Imaging Disaster Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923

Book · November 14, 2012 Imaging Disaster is a rich social history of Japan’s Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923. ... Cite

The Expanding Arts of the Interwar Period

Chapter · 2011 Featured Publication Cite

Publicity and Propaganda in 1930s Japan: Modernism as Method

Journal Article Design Issues · October 2009 Featured Publication Open Access Cite

Reinscribing Tradition in a Transnational Art World

Chapter · 2007 Featured Publication Asian Art History in the Twenty-First Century explores the field of Asian art and its historiography, tensions, and possible future directions. ... Open Access Cite

‘From Baby’s First Bath’: Kao Soap and Modern Japanese Commercial Design

Journal Article The Art Bulletin · September 2004 Featured Publication Open Access Cite

Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1931

Book · 2002 Featured Publication © 2002 Gennifer Weisenfeld. Images and other third-party content in this book are used by permission, used under the doctrine of fair use, or are in the public domain. Except for that content, this book is licensed for reuse under a CC-BY-NC 4.0 License. Y ... Open Access Cite

Touring Japan-as-Museum: NIPPON and Other Japanese Imperialist Travelogues

Journal Article Positions: east asia cultures critique · December 1, 2000 Featured Publication Open Access Cite

Guest Editor's Introduction: Visual Cultures of Japanese Imperialism

Journal Article positions: east asia cultures critique · 2000 Cite

Designing After Disaster: Barrack Decoration and the Great Kanto Earthquake

Journal Article Japanese Studies · 1998 Featured Publication Open Access Cite

Selling Shiseido: Cosmetics Advertising & Design in Early 20th-Century Japan

Internet Publication Featured Publication Core Essay, Visualizing Cultures Web site, MIT ... Link to item Cite

Imaging Kantō

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