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DESCRIPTION:Yasuko Tsuchikane will give a Brown Bag Lunch presentation on T
 hursday\, February 25\, at 12:15 pm. Her talk is entitled “Disentangling t
 he First 'Global' Standard of Ceramic Art in Early Postwar Japan.'The medi
 um of ceramics as aesthetic objects has been found across the globe\, yet\
 , is also highly localized in its contextualization and standards of evalu
 ation. The increasing complication of this duality emerged in early post-W
 orld War II Japan when the mobility of ceramics became accelerated as publ
 icly displayed exhibits through an internationally traveling exhibition an
 d an assemblage of works brought to Japan from abroad\, allowing\, for the
  first time\, close comparisons among the latest works from different nati
 onal origins. At no other time in Japan has the discourse on how to evalua
 te the artistry of ceramics become so intensely contentious and wide-rangi
 ng among collectors\, critics\, artists\, and ceramists. One aspect of the
  background of these contentions originated in Japan’s modernity\, when ce
 ramics came to be largely regarded as a self-contained field of visual art
  practice (beyond the crafts-fine art binary) and as objects endowed with 
 metaphysical status\, symbolizing collective identities in association wit
 h a framework of a nation-state against the fast-changing world order in c
 ulture and politics. Investigating these discourses against selected point
 s of curatorial decisions made by Fujio Koyama (1900-1975)\, who was in ch
 arge of appointing exhibitors and exhibits in these shows\, Tsuchikane hop
 es to shed light on how the course of “internationalization” took place. T
 he process involved a delicate negotiation with what she terms as Japan’s 
 ceramic nationalism through Koyama’s successive involvement with two ceram
 ic art trends of the twentieth-century West: the boom of Chinese Song dyna
 sty porcelains and the emergence of avant-garde ceramic art by Euro-Americ
 an artists. Koyama was a world-renowned archaeologist of antique Chinese c
 eramics\, who turned out to be an influential cultural policy maker of the
  Japanese state and a pioneering international ceramic art curator in Japa
 n. The gradual expansion of his territories of interests from Chinese prem
 odern works to those by Pablo Picasso\, Lucio Fontana\, and Peter Voulkos 
 will be introduced in the context of two exhibitions that Koyama curated i
 n 1951 and 1964. Yasuko Tsuchikane is an adjunct assistant professor of ar
 t history at the Cooper Union\, and she also teaches at Waseda University 
 and Sophia University\, Tokyo. She has focused her research on twentieth-c
 entury intellectual\, socio-political\, and ideo-religious discourses on t
 he premodern visual and material cultures of Japan and Asia at large. Her 
 aim is to reposition them in modernity and examine their global complicati
 on in various areas that have tended to escape standard art historical inv
 estigations\, but retain their enduring and changing cultural presence\, s
 uch as ceramic three-dimensional objects\, architectural paintings for rel
 igious institutions\, and calligraphy. Selected publications include “Pica
 sso as Other: Koyama Fujio and Polemics of Postwar Japanese Ceramics” (Rev
 iew of Japanese Culture and Society\, 2014)\; “Rescuing Temples and Empowe
 ring Art: Naiki Jinzaburō and the Rise of Civic Initiatives in Meiji Kyoto
 \,” in Kyoto Visual Culture in the Early Edo and Meiji Periods: The Arts o
 f Reinvention (Routledge\, 2016)\; and “Defining Modernity in Japanese Scu
 lpture: Two Waves of Italian Impact on Casting Techniques\,” in Finding Lo
 st Wax: the Disappearance and Recovery of an Ancient Casting Technique and
  the Experiments of Medardo Rosso (Brill\, 2020). In 2015 and 2016\, she s
 erved as a fellow at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Art
 s and Cultures in Norwich\, UK. She holds a PhD in art history from Columb
 ia University.This event will be live with automatic captions.This event w
 ill be held via Zoom. A link will be circulated to registrants by 10 am on
  the day of the event.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Disentangling the First 'Global' Standard of 
 Ceramic Art in Early Postwar Japan
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