Namiko Kunimoto
Tuesday, Oct 3 2017,
7:00 PM - 8:00 PM,
Tishman Lecture Hall
Contact:
Visual Arts Lecture Series (VALS)—Fall 2017
Contact:
Visual Arts Lecture Series (VALS)—Fall 2017
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Utilizing an anthropological approach to situate her inquiries of Post-war Japanese art within a larger socio-political framework, Dr. Kunimoto mines visual culture to explore questions of gender, urbanization, and nationalism. Kunimoto’s new book The Stakes of Exposure: Anxious Bodies in Japanese Postwar Art (Minnesota UP, 2017), “shows how contention over Japan’s new democracy was expressed, disavowed, and reimagined through representations of the gendered body.” She has been a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts and is an executive member of Japan Arts and Globalization and Vice-President of the Japanese Art History Forum. She is currently Assistant Professor of Art History at Ohio State University.