Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
Edited by Professor Simon Kaner. Since Leiko Ikemura emerged in the 1970s, she has explored representations of the feminine, focusing on the innocence of childhood, and the transition from girlhood to womanhood. Through her girlish figures and hybrid creatures, Ikemura subtly conveys a sense of estrangement and alienation. She asserts that humankind’s intimate relationships with […]
IN: 書学書道史研究 ; Calligraphic Studies] no. 34, December 2024, pp. 91-100.Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer 二〇二四年度例会記念講演 一九五五・五六年「現代日本の書・墨の芸術」ヨーロッパ巡回展について : アーカイブ資料から見る欧州と日本の芸術交流 Available at the National Diet Library
Edited by Melanie Trede, Christine Guth, and Mio Wakita (Chapter 4 A View of the Avant-Garde from Postwar Japanese Calligraphy, by Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer)Brill 2025 The transcultural approach to Japanese art history embraced by the contributors to this volume centers on the dynamic aesthetic, artistic, and conceptual negotiations across cultural, temporal, and spatial boundaries. It not only acknowledges material […]
Dr Eugenia Bogdanova-KummerBrill, Japanese Visual Culture Series 19, 2020 The Bokujinkai—or ‘People of the Ink’—was a group formed in Kyoto in 1952 by five calligraphers: Morita Shiryū, Inoue Yūichi, Eguchi Sōgen, Nakamura Bokushi, and Sekiya Yoshimichi. The avant-garde movement they launched aspired to raise calligraphy to the same level of international prominence as abstract painting. […]