WEEK DATE TOPIC/ASSIGNMENT 1 Jan 20 (W) Introduction: Course Overview 2 Jan 25 What is Ukiyo-e (Pictures of the Floating World)? Jenkins, Donald. “Introduction,” in Donald Jenkins, ed., The Floating World Revisited. Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press and Portland Art Museum, 1993: 3-23. Hokusai: The Suspended Threat (Section 3 (8:50-14:30) How to Make a Woodblock Print) [electronic resource], Films Media Group, 1999. Online Video available through Duke library catalogue (Search “Films on Demand”). Specialized printing techniques: http://pulverer.si.edu/node/189 Davis, Julie Nelson. “Picturing the Floating World: Ukiyo-e in Context” (Talk 50 minutes – Q&A after optional) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQXfb6JOby0 Jan 27 Collaboration and the Ukiyo-e Quartet *Visitor: Professor Julie Nelson Davis (University of Pennsylvania) 3 Feb 1 Bordello Chic and Edo Eroticism Discussion Leaders: Seigle, Cecelia. Yoshiwara: The Glittering World of the Japanese Courtesan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press: 1-13. Screech, Timon. “Introduction” and “Chapter 1: Erotic Images, Pornography, Shunga and Their Use,” in Sex and the Floating World, Reaktion Press, 2009: 7-38. The British Museum Shunga Exhibition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9eNggxOu-o&t=21 Utamaro and his Five Women, dir. Kenji Mizoguchi Feb 3 Bordello Chic and Edo Eroticism continued 4 Feb 8 The Realms of Spectacle: Kabuki and Sumo Discussion Leaders: Clark, Timothy. “Edo Kabuki in the 1780s,” in The Actor’s Image: Printmakers of the Katsukawa School. The Art Institute of Chicago, 1994: 27-48. Kominz, Laurence. “Ichikawa Danjurō V and Kabuki’s Golden Age,” in The Floating World Revisited: 63-83. “The World of Chushingura” (Part I-II) https://youtu.be/N1Z3LJPLeNI https://youtu.be/Vy6dAf3TkYs Oshima, Mark. “The Keisei as a Meeting Point of Different Worlds,” in Elizabeth Swinton, ed., The Women of the Pleasure Quarters. New York: Hudson Hills Press and the Worcester Art Museum, 1996: 87-105. Bickford, Lawrence. “Sumo Wrestling Prints,” in Ukiyo-e to Shin hanga: 122-23. http://www.kuniyoshiproject.com/Sumo%20Wrestler%20Prints,%20Par t%20I.htm http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/japan/gallery/texthomepag e.htm Feb 10 The Realms of Spectacle: Kabuki and Sumo continued 5 Feb 15 Parody, Censorship, and Satire Discussion Leaders: Harootunian, H.D. “Cultural Politics in Tokugawa Japan,” in Sarah Thompson and H.D. Harootunian eds., Undercurrents in the Floating World. New York: Asia Society Galleries, 1992: 7-28 Thompson, Sarah. “The Politics of Japanese Prints,” in Undercurrents in the Floating World, 29-91. Davis, Julie Nelson. “The Trouble with Hideyoshi: Censoring Ukiyo-e and the Ehon Taikokōki Incident of 1804,” Japan Forum 19, no. 3: 281-315. Takeuchi, M. “Kuniyoshi’s Minamoto Raikō and the Earth Spider: Demons and Protest in Late Tokugawa Japan.” Ars Orientalis 17: 5-38. Feb 17 Parody, Censorship, and Satire *Visitor: Dr. Sarah Thompson (Curator, Japanese Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) 6 Feb 22 Virtual Visit to the Ackland Art Museum http://ackland.org/ View gallery preview, “Flash of Light, Fog of War” https://www.facebook.com/AcklandArtMuseum/videos/101561133324 17985/ Read MIT Visualizing Culture units on: Throwing off Asia I-III https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/home/index.html Feb 24 Class discussion about Ackland Collection—Ideas for Final Projects 7 Mar 1 Ghosts, Demons, and the Macabre Discussion Leaders: Addiss, Stephen, ed. Japanese Ghosts and Demons. New York: George Braziller: 9-55. “The Most Famous Japanese Ghost Story: Yotsuya Kaidan” https://youtu.be/esHwqz6n-KI Shimazaki, Satoko. “The Ghost of Oiwa in Actor’s Prints,” Impressions 27 (2007-08): 77-97. Mason, Penelope. “Jigoku Tayu: A Macabre Theme in Meiji Art,” Orientations 21, no.1 (January 1990): 58-63. http://www.yoshitoshi.net/series/100ghosts.html http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/rekius/36ghosts.htm Mar 3 Ghosts, Demons, and the Macabre continued DUE: 1-page final project proposal and bibliography 8 Mar 8 Travel, Tourism, and the Landscape Discussion Leaders: Addiss, Stephen. “Travelling the Tokaido with Hiroshige,” Orientations 12, no.4 (April 1981): 20-37. Traganou, Jilly. The Tōkaidō Road (London: Routledge, 2004), Chapter 4, 141-201 (concentrate on 158-182) e-book Takeuchi, Melinda. “Making Mountains: Mini Fujis, Edo Popular Religion and Hiroshige’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo,” Impressions 24 (2002): 25-34. Farago, NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/07/arts/design/hokusai -fuji.html http://www.hiroshige.org.uk/hiroshige/100_views_edo/100_views_edo .htm http://www.hiroshige.org.uk/hiroshige/tokaido/tokaido.htm **8:00-9:00pm Visitor: Professor Jilly Traganou (The New School Parsons) Mandatory Mar 10 NO CLASS 9 Mar 15 Appropriations: Hokusai’s Great Wave Discussion Leaders: Guth, Christine. Hokusai’s Great Wave: Biography of a Global Icon. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2015. Hokusai: The Suspended Threat [electronic resource], Films Media Group, 1999. Online Video available through Duke library catalogue (Search “Films on Demand”). Mar 17 Appropriations: Hokusai’s Great Wave *Visitor: Professor Christine Guth (Emerita Royal College of Art) 10 Mar 22 Bright Lights Big City: Edo to Tokyo Discussion Leaders: Enroll in edX Course (archived version): https://www.edx.org/course/visualizing-the-birth-of-modern-tokyo Watch videos for Module I (Days 2-4) Ellen Sebring workshop video, “Visualizing the Birth of Modern Tokyo” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f_0ykn49g0 Read MIT Visualizing Cultures units on: Kiyochika’s Tokyo I-III and Tokyo Modern I-III https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/home/vis_menu.html Weisenfeld, Gennifer. “Laughing in the Face of Calamity: Visual Satire after the Great Kantō Earthquake.” In Monica Juneja and Gerrit Jasper Schenk, eds. Disaster as Image: Iconographies and Media Strategies across Europe and Asia, Regensburg, Germany: Schnell und Steiner, 2014, 125-134. Mar 24 Bright Lights Big City: Edo to Tokyo continued 11 Mar 29 Tokyo Pop Discussion Leaders: Goodman, David. Posters of the Japanese Avant-Garde. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999, 1-13. http://designobserver.com/feature/wild-at-heart-tadanori- yokoo/14588/ Teraoka, Masami. Masami Teraoka: From Tradition to Technology, the Floating World Comes of Age. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997, 10-61. “Interview with the Artist: Masami Teraoka” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1q607TGdl4&list=RDCMUCzBW68 I7Wq5TApqR1-xtKAA&start_radio=1&t=21 http://www.gregkucera.com/shimomura.htm Mar 31 Tokyo Pop continued DUE: Outline Draft of Final Project 12 Apr 5 Neo Pop Discussion Leaders: Weisenfeld, Gennifer. “Reinscribing Tradition in a Transnational Art World.” Transcultural Studies 1 (2010): 78-99. http://archiv.ub.uni- heidelberg.de/ojs/index.php/transcultural/article/view/6175 Welch, Matthew. “Artistic Remix: Contemporary Takes on Timeless Prints,” Impressions 34 (2013): 123-140. “Chiho Aoshima” in Drop Dead Cute, Ivan Vartanian, ed., Chronicle Books (2005): 32-45. “Chiho Aoshima: The Rebirth of the World,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5427YXnyKXY Tabaimo, https://www.pbs.org/video/art-21-boundaries/ (start 18:30-28:20) Staged Photography (Section 7: Jeff Wall) [electronic resource], 2011. Online Video available through Duke library catalogue (Search “Films on Demand”). Apr 7 Neo Pop continued *Visitor: Dr. Xiaojin Wu (Curator of Japanese and Korean Art, Seattle Art Museum) 13 Apr 12 NO CLASS Apr 14 FINAL PRESENTATIONS Presenters: 14 Apr 19 FINAL PRESENTATIONS Presenters: Apr 21 FINAL PRESENTATIONS Presenters: 15 Apr 27 FINAL PROJECTS DUE: 12:00pm (Noon) ARTHIST 432S: From Pleasure Quarters to Tokyo Pop, Prof. Weisenfeld .