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Centralisation and Manipulation of the Art Scene: Development of the Government-Sponsored Juried Art Exhibition Kanten in Japan 1907-1923, and in Choson in the 1920s (2023)
Thesis
Valentova, N. Centralisation and Manipulation of the Art Scene: Development of the Government-Sponsored Juried Art Exhibition Kanten in Japan 1907-1923, and in Choson in the 1920s. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis is the first critical examination of the Kanten as an institution. Mirroring the national French salon, it differed from the large-scale export-driven national expositions or small exhibitions of the private art associations, creating an... Read More about Centralisation and Manipulation of the Art Scene: Development of the Government-Sponsored Juried Art Exhibition Kanten in Japan 1907-1923, and in Choson in the 1920s.

Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns. Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822 (2006)
Book
Screech, T. (Ed.). (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns. Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203099858

Isaac Titsingh was intermittently head of the Japan factory (trading station) of the Dutch East India Company 1780-94. He was a career merchant, but unusual in having a classical education and training as a physician. His impact in Japan was enormous... Read More about Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns. Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822.

Japan Extolled and Decried: Carl Peter Thunberg and Japan, 1775-1796 (2005)
Book
Screech, T. (Ed.). (2005). Japan Extolled and Decried: Carl Peter Thunberg and Japan, 1775-1796. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203020357

This edition makes available once again Thunberg’s extraordinary writings on Japan, complete with illustrations, a full introduction and annotations. Carl Peter Thunberg, pupil and successor of Linnaeus – of the great fathers of modern science – spen... Read More about Japan Extolled and Decried: Carl Peter Thunberg and Japan, 1775-1796.