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SUMMARY:Speaking of Books with Alicia Volk: In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan
DESCRIPTION:Powered by Research Education at University Libraries. Speaking 
 of Books series features free\, open to the community and public talks by 
 UMD faculty authors on their recently published work. \n\nAlicia Volk 
 brings to light a significant body of postwar Japanese art\, exploring how 
 it accommodated and resisted the workings of the American empire during the 
 early Cold War. Volk’s groundbreaking account presents the points of view 
 of Japanese artists and their audiences under American occupation and amid 
 the ruins of war. Each chapter reveals how artists embraced new roles for 
 art in the public sphere—at times by enacting radical critiques of 
 established institutions\, values\, and practices—and situates a range of 
 compelling art objects in their intersecting artistic and political 
 worlds.\n \nCentering on the diverse and divisive terrain of Japanese art 
 between 1945 and 1952\, In the Shadow of Empire creates a fluid map of 
 relationality that brings multiple Cold War spheres into dialogue\, 
 stretching beyond US-occupied Japan to art from China\, Europe\, the Soviet 
 Union\, and the United States\, and demonstrates the rich potential of this 
 transnational site of artmaking for rethinking the history of Japanese and 
 global postwar art.\n\nDr. Volk's talk will be accompanied by a display of 
 items from the Gordon W. Prange Collection that are featured in her 
 book.\n\n\n\nAlicia Volk is Professor of Japanese Art in the Department of 
 Art History and Archaeology. She is the author of Made in Japan: The 
 Postwar Creative Print Movement (2005) and curator of the exhibition of the 
 same name. Her award-winning book In Pursuit of Universalism: Yorozu 
 Tetsugorō and Japanese Modern Art (2010) received the Phillips Book Prize. 
 Her latest book is In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan 
 (University of Chicago Press\, 2025). Through the analysis of charismatic 
 artworks in a range of mediums and political commitments\, it shows how the 
 forgotten art of a country in the shadows of American empire variously 
 accommodated and resisted the Cold War global realignment that followed on 
 the heels of World War II. Volk has been a J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral 
 Fellow\, a Japan Foundation-Ishibashi Foundation Fellow\, a Robert and Lisa 
 Sainsbury Fellow at the School of African and Asian Studies of the 
 University of London\, and a Fulbright Research Fellow at Waseda 
 University. \n\n\n\n
LOCATION:Hornbake Library North\, Gordon W. Prange Reading Room\, 4th floor\, Hornbake Library
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