The Study of Visual Arts and Museum Activities in North America

1991 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

• Project/Area Number: 03041103
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Overseas Scientific Survey.
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Research Institution: The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: TOMIYAMA Hideo Deputy Director, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 次長 (00000381)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): HUJII Hisae Professor, Tsukuba University, 芸術学係, 教授 ; HIDA Toyojiro Curator, Crafts Gallery, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 金工係長 (40132708) ; KANEKO Kenji Curator, Crafts Gallery, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 染織係長 (20169569) ; HASEBE Mitsuhiko Curator, Crafts Gallery, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 工芸課長 (70124203) ; ISHIMURA Hayao Curator, Crafts Gallery, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 主任研究官 (60150041) ; TAKAHASHI Koji Assistant Curator, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 研究員 (20179485) ; ICHIKAWA Masanori Curator, Department of Fine Arts, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 美術課長 (20099930) ; IWASAKI Yoshikazu Curator, Department of Fine Arts, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 企画, 資料課長 (40000385) ; SAIKI Tomonori Assistant Curator, Film Center, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 企画, 資料係長 (70186914) ; OKAJIMA Hisashi Assistant Curator, Film Center, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 映画係長 (20132706) ; OBA Masatoshi Curator, Film Center, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 主幹 (30099931) ; MARUO Sadamu Film Historian, 映画史家 ; SHINADA Yukichi Film Critic, 映画評論家 ; KUSAKABE Kyushiro Film Critic, 映画評論家 ; TOGAWA Naoki Film Critic, 映画評論家
• Project Period (FY): 1991
• Keywords: Film / Photography / Design / Archive / Visual Arts / Museum

Research Abstract

The Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research has enabled us to do detailed genre-to-genre research on the museum activities in the fields of film, photography, and design at major institutions in Europe and North America, for which we are very grateful. The number of the institutions we visited for this purpose is many, being 19 for film, 25 for photography, and 20 for design.
Our task this year has been to make the information we have thus accumulated into a report, though it has been impossible to put everything into it.
In publishing the report, there was a difference of opinion in whether to add an English translation of the text, but in the end, it was agreed to produce a report in Japanese only. After a year's work in writing, which was split among the staff members concerned, sorting and selecting photographs, editing, and proofreading, the report on the results of the research which accompany this resume has been finally printed and published.
This concludes the research funded by the Grant-in-Aid, but it is our task from now on to incorporate the valuable findings made through the research into our museum activities.
Through this research, we have been able to accumulate a collection of books on film, photography, and design, for which again we are grateful to the Grant-in-Aid.