Gennifer Weisenfeld
“Publicity and Propaganda in 1930s Japan: Modernism as Method”
Wednesday, Sept. 26
LaRose Digital Theatre, Koury Business Center, 6 p.m.
LaRose Digital Theatre, Koury Business Center, 6 p.m.
Weisenfeld, Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Art, Art History, and Visual Studies at Duke University, speaks on the links forged between the corporate and the art and design realms in 1930s Japan. Through a close examination of the practices of the foremost Japanese commercial design specialists of the day, Weisenfeld explores the modernist pictorial strategies deployed in the dynamic realm of national publicity and propaganda production.
Art History Lecture Series