Bert Winther-Tamaki is the Chair of the Art History Department at the University of California, Irvine, and Professor of Visual Studies. He received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. His work focuses on the role of the visual arts in the construction of modern national identities, especially in early and mid-twentieth-century Japan. He is particularly intrigued by artists whose positions partly outside Japan complicated the artistic identities they developed in various media.
Select Publications include, Maximum Embodiment; Yoga, the "Western Painting" of Japan, 1910-1955. University of Hawai'i Press, January 2012, Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics: A Close Embrace of the Earth co-author with Louise Cort. Washington, D.C.: The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003 and Art in the Encounter of Nations: Japanese and American Artists in the Early Postwar Years. Honolulu. University of Hawai’i Press, 2001.
This lecture is sponsored by: History of Art Department, Japanese Studies, Asian American Studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Department of Diversity and Inclusion
