Dr. Namiko Kunimoto will give a talk entitled “Art and Imperialism in Postwar Japan.” at the Columbus Museum of Art (CMA) on April 16, 2:00-3:00pm, in conjunction with the CMA’s exhibition Wild Earth: JB Blunk and Toshiko Takaezu.
Her presentation will focus on the long-running careers of some politically and aesthetically diverse artists including Okamoto Tarō (1911-1996). The arc of Okamoto and other artists careers across the prewar, war, and postwar periods upsets popular periodization in art history that assert the postwar as a time of rupture and renewal. How did the Imperial period relate to art in the 1970s? How does a reading of their work reveal continuities before and after the war, and what are the political stakes of these continuities?
Tickets are free for members, $10 for nonmembers.
Registration is required.
