| Research I
am currently a Post-gradute Reseach Student at Nihon University
Graduate School of Arts (Image Arts Dept.), Tokyo, Japan.
The main focus of my research is to examine how current representations of landscape in Visual Art reflect the lived-space of our contemporary culture, incorporating the development of an Urban aesthetic in Landscape and its relationship to the traditional landscape aesthetic. With this goal in mind, I am exploring the relationship between the Industrial Revolution and Romanticism in 19th century Europe and the current impact of globalization on current manifestations of Landscape, with a particular focus of East-Asia. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
I will be using this space to post links and information to exhibitions and online writings that relate to my research. • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • The first of these, is an exhibition I attended recently in Neutron Gallery, Tokyo. The selected artists, working in a wide variety of media, all encorporate images of 富士山 (Mt. Fuji) in their works.  http://www.neutron-tokyo.com/gallery/schedule/1004/fujisan/index.html • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Setting Sun - Writings by Japanese Photographers
 "Japanese photographers have created a tradition strikingly different from that of their Western counterparts. Their work is based on ideas, rules, and aesthetics that are specific to Japanese culture but often little known in the West. Many photographers throughout the history of the medium in Japan—including master postwar photographers such as Daido Moriyama, Shomei Tomatsu, and Nobuyoshi Araki—have produced substantial bodies of written work that form an essential counterpart to their visual art. Setting Sun is an anthology of key texts written from the 1950s to the present by Moriyama, Tomatsu, and Araki, as well as by other leading Japanese photographers, including Masahisa Fukase, Takashi Homma, Eikoh Hosoe, Takuma Nakahira, and Hiroshi Sugimoto." (Introduction from inside book jacket) Edited by Ivan Vartanian, Akihiro Hatanaka, Yutaka Kanbayashi |