Looking Modern: Gender in Japanese Art, 1890–2011

Exhibition

Exhibition Overview

Looking Modern: Gender in Japanese Art, 1890–2011
Looking Modern: Gender in Japanese Art, 1890–2011
Kris Ercums, curator
Vidhita Raina, curator
Gallery 408, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

This exhibition presents a transforming Japan that negotiates tradition and modernity, and femininity and masculinity.

Exhibition images

Works of art

Mitsuyu Chihagi (active early 1900s), Seated Woman
Mitsuyu Chihagi (active early 1900s)
mid 1930s, Showa period (1926–1989)
Matsumoto Masao (1900–1964), Reflecting Woman
Matsumoto Masao (1900–1964)
circa 1920s, Taisho period (1912–1926)
Kim In-seung (1910–2001), untitled (portrait of woman)
Kim In-seung (1910–2001)
1941
Joseph Ducreux (1735–1802), Le Discret
Joseph Ducreux (1735–1802)
circa 1791

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