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34 Thematic Essays on Japanese Art
(images & bibliographies, the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

The Virtual Museum of Japanese Arts

Oxford Art Online

A. Use Library Catalogs to find books

1. Tufts Libraries Catalog

2. WorldCat (beyond Tufts)

B. Searches & Results

(note the search pattern; adapt for your own needs)

Key Themes:

Japonisme

Chinoiserie

 

("Nihon-ga" or Nihonga or "Nihon ga")

Painting, Japanese

 

"woodblock prints" and japan*

 

Ukiyoe

japan* and scroll*

 

Key Artists:

Suzuki Harunobu

Kitagawa, Utamaro

Katsushika, Hokusai

Andō, Hiroshige

Hasui Kawase

Takamura Kotaro

Okakura Tenshin

Kuroda Seiki

Asai Chu

 

"Vincent van Gogh" and (east* or Japonisme)

Manet, Édouard

Edgar Degas

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Toulouse-Lautrec and japan*

Topics:

Hiroshige and ("floating world" or ukiyoe)

Japan* and art and influen*

Japan* and art and (West* or europ*) and influenc*

 

Tips: 1. Or and ( ) to search any or all of the words; 2. cultur** searches for culture, cultural, etc.

 

in the Broader Contexts:

Art, Japanese -- History

Art -- Japan -- History.

 

Types of Documents:

Art, Japanese -- Exhibitions.

-- Heian Period, 794-1185 -- Exhibitions.  

-- Kamakura-Momoyama Periods, 1185-1600 -- Exhibitions.

-- Edo Period, 1600-1868 -- Exhibitions.

-- 1868- -- Exhibitions.

 

Art, Japanese -- European influences -- Exhibitions.

These exhibition and museum catalogues are uniquely valuable sources, which may include:

*Fundamental data on each work of art;

*Official images of the artworks;

*Curatorial statements/essays;

*essays by art critics/historians;

*list of scholarly publications on the art,

*and more.

Here are two example:

Monet and Japan: [an exhibition organised by the National Gallery of Australia]. / ND553.M7 A4 2001b

A New and Strange Beauty. Monet and Japanese Art / Virginia Spate and David Bromfield -- Claude Monet. Between 'Impressionism' and 'Japonism / Shigemi Inaga -- Catalogue -- Waves of Influence / Gary Hickey -- Monet and Japanese Screen Painting / Akiko Mabuchi -- Anthology. Contemporary Comments on Monet and Japanese Art (1868-1924) -- Japanese Paintings in Paris in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Books and Articles on Japanese Art and Culture in Monet's Library.

Japan Envisions the West: 16th-19th Century Japanese Art from Kobe City Museum / edited by Yukiko Shirahara.] / N7352 .J362 2007

Introduction : the painters of Japan and the West / Oka Yasumasa -- The reception of maps between Japan and the West / Onoda Kazuyuki -- Two streams of Namban painting / Narusawa Katsushi -- The art scene in and around Nagasaki / Narusawa Katsushi -- The influence of Ransho on Western-style painting / Katsumori Noriko -- The early copperplate prints of Shiba Kōkan and Aōdō Denzen / Tsukahara Akira -- Hollandisme in Japanese craftwork / Oka Yasumasa -- Japan and the West : export porcelain and lacquerware / Christiaan J.A. Jörg -- The opening of Japan and its visual culture / Tsukahara Akira.

 

Advance Keyword Search, limiting to books.

On the topic of Japanese anime:

 

subject: And Any Field: And
Material Type:	All Books/Journals

The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art
Michael Sullivan.
N7429 .S93 1997

Japan Style.
Gian Carlo Calza
N7350 .C25 2007.

History of Japanese Art.
Penelope Mason; revised by Donald Dinwiddie.
N7350 .M26 2005

The Arts of Japan
by Noma Seiroku; photographs by Takahashi Bin.
N7350 .N63913 2003

Traditional Japanese Prints:

Traditional Woodblock Prints of Japan (ukiyoe) NE1310 .T2913

A Guide to Japanese Prints and Their Subject Matter (Color prints, Edo period). NE1321.8 .S74 1979b

Japanese Woodblock Prints: A Bibliography of Writings from 1822-1992. NE1321.8 .W42

Japanese Woodblock Prints: the Reciprocal Influence between East and West. / Lucille R. Webber. NE1321.8 .W42

Digital Images

ARTstor

 

Artifact

 

 

Print Images

Art, Japanese -- Catalogs.

Art, Japanese -- To 1868 -- Exhibitions .

Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- Exhibitions.

Art, Japanese -- Edo period, 1600-1868 -- Catalogs.

A. Use the subject databases to find journal articles and to situate yourself within a critical discourse; that's where you can learn to be conversant with the critics writing in your field.

1 & 2. JSTOR and Project Muse

JSTOR is a favorite with its full texts in core journals of all disciplines. Project Muse does not include exactly the same JSTOR journals, but it has more recent and current articles on many topics.

 

3. Academic OneFile
All subjects; a convenient Quick Start. Here are some sample findings:

 

 

4. with Particular Focuses/Perspectives:

ARTbiliographies Modern
International Bibliography of Art
Architecture (the Avery Index)

 

 

 

Film & Television and Mass Media

Limit Your Results

Peer Reviewed

 

Bibliography of Asian Studies

5. When use GoogleScholar, set your Library Links to access Tufts full texts.

B. Build up Your Search

1. Start with names of artists, filmmakers, and authors of articles and books in your readings; titles of the works of art, movies and of those readings as well.

Broaden or narrow down your search with related themes. For example:

Hiroshige Ando;

Hiroshige and ("floating world" or ukiyoe);

Western, European, French, (regional influences);

woodblock prints, paintings (medium);

"floating world", ukiyoe (style or theme);

and so on

2. Examine the initial search results to discover what scholars have written about these writers, authors, and their works: "issues" addressed; the central debates on these issues, evidence and methods applied in analysis of these issues, and so on.

C. Current Scholarship on a Topic

Reviews of recent books and other types of review articles in major journals in a discipline are likely to summarize the current state of research in an area.

Two examples:

Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860 (review). The Journal of Japanese Studies, Winter 2011.

The Japanization of Modernity: Murakami Haruki between Japan and the United States (review). Monumenta Nipponica, Spring 2009.

 

A Few Notable Journals:

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies

The Journal of Japanese Studies

Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies

Mechademia

Monumenta Nipponica

Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique

 

The Art Bulletin.

Art History

Art Journal

D. Find More Articles like this "perfect" one

How:

Search, in Arts and Humanities Citation Index, for the article you have read.

Kōdera, Tsukasa. "Japan as Primitivistic Utopia - van Gogh Japonisme Portraits" Simiolus  14: 3-4 (1984), 189-208 .
References: 52 Times Cited: 2

You can, then, look up, in the record, the 52 references that Kōdera cited for his article and, in turn, 2 articles that cited his. The assumption is that these articles address related issues.

 

Note:

1. Not every single article is cited;
2. Influential authors are cited more often;
3. More recent publications take time to be cited.

A. Current:

Book, Movie, Music, Play, And Video Reviews (in LexisNexis)

Factiva (more international coverage)

B. Historical

Times Digital Archive  (1785 - 1985)

New York Times Online Archive
(1851 - 3 years before current date)

Art Index Retrospective   (1929- 1982)

 

Readers' Guide Retrospective (1890-1982)

American Periodicals (1740 - 1940)

British Humanities Index (1962- )
British Periodicals (1680s - 1930s)

1. Click on the button in your search results screen to a window of three sequential options:

a. link to the digital full text when available;

b. link to a Library Catalog search for the print journal;

c. link to ILliad for requesting the article when the above two options are negative.

2. Search for a journal directly here:

a. Tufts Library Catalog (including e-journals)

b. Electronic journals list

c. Use ILliad to request your article, if Tufts does not have your journal.

Set up for your ILliad account

Use ILLiad, our Interlibrary Loan Service, to request articles, books and other materials that are not available at Tufts.

Writing the Art History paper (Dartmouth Writing Program)

Citing Sources:

Chicago Style Manual

RefWorks (a Citation Management Tool)