Gennifer Weisenfeld

Gennifer S. Weisenfeld
Academic background
EducationWesleyan University (BA)
Princeton University (MA, PhD)
Academic work
DisciplineJapan scholar
InstitutionsDuke University

Gennifer Weisenfeld is an American art historian and professor at Duke University.[1][2][3] Weisenfeld is a specialist on modern and contemporary Japanese art, visual culture, and design.[4][5][6]

Books

  • MAVO: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1931 (2001)[7]
  • Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923 (2012)[8]
  • Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan (2023)[9]

References

  1. ^ Swanson, Amy. "Lecture puts new spin on Japanese art". The Oakland Post. Retrieved March 5, 2024.
  2. ^ "Q&A: Gennifer Weisenfeld on Duke's Plan for New Humanities Labs | Duke Today". today.duke.edu. May 3, 2018. Retrieved March 5, 2024.
  3. ^ "Podcast Ep. 3 | Gennifer Weisenfeld". JapanSocietyOfBoston. Retrieved March 5, 2024.
  4. ^ "The problems and pleasure of publishing the horrors of the 3/11 tsunami". The Japan Times. March 7, 2015. Retrieved March 5, 2024.
  5. ^ ""You Just Have to Read This…" Books by Wesleyan Authors Hinton '85, Ohashi '20, and Weisenfeld '87". Retrieved March 5, 2024.
  6. ^ "Selling Shiseido: The Aesthetics of Health and Beauty in Japanese Cosmetics Advertising - Lecture by Professor Gennifer Weisenfeld - Duke University". Art History. Retrieved March 5, 2024.
  7. ^ Weisenfeld, Gennifer Stacy (2002). Mavo: Japanese artists and the avant-garde, 1905-1931. Twentieth-century Japan. Berkeley (Calif.): University of California press. ISBN 978-0-520-22338-7.
  8. ^ Weisenfeld, Gennifer Stacy (2012). Imaging disaster: Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923. Asia. Berkeley: University of California press. ISBN 978-0-520-27195-1.
  9. ^ Weisenfeld, Gennifer Stacy (2023). Gas mask nation: visualizing civil air defense in wartime Japan. Chicago (Il.): The University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-81644-9.