A Comparative Study on the International Proliferation of Pop Art and Its Development in Japan

• Project/Area Number: 25770043
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Fine art history
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: Ikegami Hiroko 神戸大学, 国際文化学研究科, 准教授 (20507058)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2015)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
• Keywords: ポップ・アート / 美術史 / 比較美術史 / 戦後美術

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I conducted an extensive research on this topic during the tenure of this fellowship, while presenting a paper in a number of international conferences. The major accomplishment of this study was "International Pop" exhibition, for which I acted as a consulting curator for the Japanese section as well as writing a catalogue essay. The exhibition, which opened at Walker Art Center in the United States in April 2015, surveyed the global spread of Pop Art in the 1960s, and I was able to demonstrate an important presence of postwar Japanese art in the international art scene of the day.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] “Lost in Translation? ‘Twenty Questions to Bob Rauschenberg’” (2014)
  • Author(s): Hiroko Ikegami
  • Journal Title: Post: Notes on Modern and Contemporary Art around the Globe Volume: Online publication
  • Open Access
• [Journal Article] “Shinohara Ushio’s Dialogue with American Art: From Imitation Art to Pop Ukiyo-e” (2014)
  • Author(s): Hiroko Ikegami
  • Journal Title: Post: Notes on Modern and Contemporary Art around the Globe Volume: Online publication
  • Open Access
• [Journal Article] 「世界的視野から問い直されるポップ」 (2014)
  • Author(s): 池上裕子
  • Journal Title: 『美術手帖』 Volume: vol. 66, no. 1002 Pages: 80-85
• [Journal Article] "Lost in Translation? 'Twenty Questions to Bob Rauschenberg'" (2014)
  • Author(s): Hiroko Ikegami
  • Journal Title: Post: Notes on Modern and Contemporary Art around the Globe Volume: Online publication
• [Journal Article] "Shinohara Ushio’s Dialogue with American Art: From “Imitation Art” to Pop Ukiyo-e" (2014)
  • Author(s): Hiroko Ikegami
  • Journal Title: Post: Notes on Modern and Contemporary Art around the Globe Volume: Online publication
• [Presentation] "'Event' as a Global Format: Considering Merce Cunningham Dance Company's World Strategies" (2015)
  • Author(s): Hiroko Ikegami
  • Organizer: Joint Workshop of Freie Universitāt Berlin and Kobe University, "Transcultural Shifts and Manifestations in Art and Culture during the 1930s and 1940s in Asia and Europe"
  • Place of Presentation: 神戸大学
  • Year and Date: 2015-11-22
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] "Internationality of Pop" (2015)
  • Author(s): Hiroko Ikegami, Darsie Alexander, Erica Battle
  • Organizer: "International Pop: Opening-Day Talks"
  • Place of Presentation: Walker Art Center
  • Year and Date: 2015-04-11
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] Tokyo Pop: Discussion with Ushio Shinohara and Keiichi Tanaami (2015)
  • Author(s): Hiroko Ikegami, Ushio Shinohara, Keiichi Tanaami
  • Organizer: "International Pop: Opening-Day Talks"
  • Place of Presentation: Walker Art Center
  • Year and Date: 2015-04-11
  • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
• [Presentation] “ ‘The New York Connection’: Pontus Hulten’s Curatorial Agenda in the 1960s” (2014)
  • Author(s): Hiroko Ikegami
  • Organizer: “Art in Transfer: Curatorial Practices and Transnational Strategies in the Era of Pop”
  • Place of Presentation: ストックホルム近代美術館（ スウェーデン ）
  • Year and Date: 2014-11-08
  • Invited
• [Presentation] “Tokyo Pop’s Second Wave: Yokoo Tadanori and Tanaami Keiichi” (2014)
  • Author(s): Hiroko Ikegami
  • Organizer: “For a New Wave to Come: Post-1945 Japanese Art History Now”
  • Place of Presentation: Japan Society, New York（ アメリカ ）
  • Year and Date: 2014-09-13
• [Presentation] 「アメリカのポップ、世界のポップ：アンディ・ウォーホルと田名網敬一を中心に」 (2014)
  • Author(s): 池上裕子
  • Organizer: アンディ・ウォーホル展連続レクチャー
  • Place of Presentation: 森美術館（ 東京都港区 ）
  • Year and Date: 2014-04-26
  • Invited
• [Presentation] "Recontextualizing Neo Dada: Jasper Johns in Tokyo, 1964"
  • Author(s): Hiroko Ikegami
  • Organizer: Terra Foundation Lectures in Americanist Postmodern
  • Place of Presentation: School of Art Institute, Chicago
  • Invited
• [Presentation] "Performing Painting: Shiraga Kazuo's Challenging Mud"
  • Author(s): Hiroko Ikegami
  • Organizer: 美術史学会全国大会シンポジウム "The Impulse to Oil Paintings"
  • Place of Presentation: Kansai University
  • Invited
• [Presentation] "Toward a Transnational Understanding of Pop: A Case in Tokyo"
  • Author(s): Hiroko Ikegami
  • Organizer: Reimagining Modernism: Mapping the Contemporary Critical Perspectives on Transnationality in Art
  • Place of Presentation: University of Cambridge
  • Invited
• [Presentation] "Thoughts on Rauschenberg and After"
  • Author(s): Hiroko Ikegami
  • Organizer: Artlas Seminar
  • Place of Presentation: Ecole Normale Supereiure, Paris
  • Invited
• [Presentation] "Transnational Pop and Its Critical Strategies: A Case in Tokyo"
  • Author(s): Hiroko Ikegami
  • Organizer: Transcultural Shifts and Manifestations in Art and Culture during the 1920s and 1930s in Asia and Europe
  • Place of Presentation: Freie University, Berlin
• [Presentation] "Tokyo Pop: Embracing America, Contesting Empire"
  • Author(s): Hiroko Ikegami
  • Organizer: Multi-Locale Pops in the 1960s
  • Place of Presentation: Sophia University
• [Book] "International Pop" (2015)
  • Author(s): Darsie Alexander, Bartholomew Ryan, Hiroko Ikegami
  • Publisher: Walker Art Center
• [Book] 『油彩への衝動』 (2015)
  • Author(s): 蜷川順子、アンシア・カレン、池上裕子ほか
  • Publisher: 中央公論美術出版
• [Book] 『越境と覇権：ロバート・ラウシェンバーグと戦後アメリカ美術の世界的台頭』 (2015)
  • Author(s): 池上裕子
  • Publisher: 三元社
• [Book] International Pop (2015)
  • Author(s): Hiroko Ikegami, Darsie Alexander, Erica Battle et al.
  • Publisher: Walker Art Center
• [Book] Between East and West: Reproductions in Art (2014)
  • Author(s): Hiroko Ikegami, Shigetoshi Osano, Jonathan Hay et al.
  • Total Pages: 436
  • Publisher: IRSA
• [Book] Between East and West: Reproductions in Art (2014)
  • Author(s): Shigetoshi Osano, ed. Authors: Jonathan Hay, Hiroko Ikegami et al.
  • Publisher: International Institute for Art Historical Research
• [Remarks] 日本美術オーラル･ヒストリー･アーカイヴ
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• [Remarks] 日本美術オーラル・ヒストリー・アーカイヴ
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• [Remarks] 日本美術オーラル・ヒストリー・アーカイヴ
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