The Art Bulletin reviews Professor Asato Ikeda’s new book, “Art and War in Japan and Its Empire, 1931-1960”

Congratulations to our own Professor Ikeda for the recent review in the Art Bulletin of her book, “Art and War in Japan and Its Empire, 1931-1960”. The book was co-edited with Aya Louisa McDonald, University of Nevada and Ming Tiampo, Carleton University. The review is a nice recognition of her work!

Art and War in Japan and its Empire: 1931-1960 is an anthology that investigates the impact of the Fifteen-Year War (1931-1945) on artistic practices and brings together twenty scholars including art historians, historians, and museum curators from the United States, Canada, France, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan. This will be the first art-historical anthology that examines responses to the war within and outside Japan in the wartime and postwar period. The anthology will scrutinize official and unofficial war artists who recorded, propagated, or resented the war; explore the unprecedented transnationality of artistic activity under Japan’s colonial expansion; and consider the role of today’s museum institutions in remembering the war through art.

Contributors include: Asato Ikeda, Aya Lousa McDonald, Ming Tiampo, Akihisa Kawata, Mikiko Hirayama, Mayu Tsuruya, Michael Lucken, Bert Winther-Tamaki, Mark H. Sandler, Maki Kaneko, Kendall Brown, Reita Hirase, Gennifer Weisenfeld, Kari Shepherdson-Scott, Aida-Yuen Wong, Hyeshin Kim, Laura Hein, and Julia Adeney Thomas.

Read review: https://artramblings.ace.fordham.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ikeda-Art-Bulletin.pdf