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]

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

Books

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  • 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

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  1. ^ Swanson, Amy. "Lecture puts new spin on Japanese art". The Oakland Post. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  2. ^ "Q&A: Gennifer Weisenfeld on Duke's Plan for New Humanities Labs | Duke Today". today.duke.edu. 2018-05-03. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  3. ^ "Podcast Ep. 3 | Gennifer Weisenfeld". JapanSocietyOfBoston. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  4. ^ "The problems and pleasure of publishing the horrors of the 3/11 tsunami". The Japan Times. 2015-03-07. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  5. ^ ""You Just Have to Read This…" Books by Wesleyan Authors Hinton '85, Ohashi '20, and Weisenfeld '87". Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  6. ^ "Selling Shiseido: The Aesthetics of Health and Beauty in Japanese Cosmetics Advertising - Lecture by Professor Gennifer Weisenfeld - Duke University". Art History. Retrieved 2024-03-05.
  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.