Concise, critical reviews of books, exhibitions, and projects in all areas and periods of art history and visual studies

East Asia
Dissertations in Progress by Subject, 2023

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Casimir, Zane, "Play by Play: Ludic Spaces, Interventions, and Medias within 20th-Century Japanese Visual Cultures" (University of California, Irvine, B. Winther-Tamaki)

Choi , Suhyun, "Transnational Socialism, Decolonial Worldmaking, and the Development of Modern Art in North Korea" (Columbia University, J. Reynolds)

JANG, JIHAN, "WORLD and BLACKHOLE—KOREAN CONTEMPORARY ART after GLOBALIZATION" (State University of New York, Binghamton, T. McDonough, K. Hatch)

Kugo, Kasumi, "Are Bure Boke—The Theory and Practice of Photographic Publications in 1960s' and 1970s' Japan" (State University of New York, Binghamton, J. Tagg, J. Kirkwood)

Lee, Meng-Hsuan, "Shop-House, Verandah-Arcade, Decorated Façade: An Excavation of Commercial Architecture in Japanese Colonial Taiwan" (Columbia University, J. Reynolds)

Menders, Trevor, "Dancing with Genji: Painting, Performance, and Politics in Seventeenth-century Japan (Harvard University, Y. Lippit, M. McCormick)

Mickle, Allie, "Picturing the Factory of the World: Artists’ Cinema, China and Global Commodity Chains" (Ohio State University, E. Levin)

Park, Sun Yang, "TRANSLATING UTOPIA: SINSASILPA (KOREAN NEW REALISM GROUP), 1947–1953" (State University of New York, Binghamton, K. Hatch)

Raina, Vidhita, "Fabricating Sarasa: Patterns of Global Exchange in Early Modern Japanese Textiles and Visual Culture" (University of Kansas, S. Fowler)

Salvador, María, "The Path of My Mountain: An Ecocritical Approach to the Art of the Kasuga Cult in Medieval Japan" (Harvard University, Y. Lippit, M. McCormick)

Seo, Yeongik, "Nostalgia Reinvented: Hasegawa Tōhaku (1539–1610) and the Artistic Transformations of Sixteenth-Century Japan" (Columbia University, M. McKelway)

Tu, Anran, "Painting as Research: Jin Cheng (1878–1926) and the Knowledge of Chinese Art in the Early Twentieth Century (University of California, San Diego, K. Shen)

Wang, Y. L. Lucy, "Contagious Places, Curative Spaces: Disease in the Making of Modern Chinese Architecture, 1894–1949" (Columbia University, B. Bergdoll)

Zhu, Ying, "The Color of Taste: Boneless Landscape in the Seventeenth Century" (University of Kansas, A. McNair)