Chelsea Foxwell
Contact Information
foxwell@uchicago.edu
Ph.D. Columbia University - Nineteenth-century Japanese painting and visual culture specializing in the effects of Japan's "opening" to the West on painting production and modern "Japanese-style" painting (Nihonga).
Research interests include early modern practices of image circulation, exhibition, and display; the relationship between image-making and the kabuki theater; "export art;" Japanese artistic interactions with the rest of East Asia; landscape traditions and the depiction of place.
Selected Publications
- "Merciful Mother Kannon and its Auincs," Forthcoming in The Art Bulletin, December 2010.
- "Japan as Museum? Encapsulating Change and Loss in Late Nineteenth-Century Japan," Insights: The Getty Research Journal 1 (2009): 39-52.
- "Dekadansu: Ukiyo-e and the Codification of Aesthetic Values in Modern Japan, 1880-1930," Octopus: A Visual Studies Journal 3 (2007), 21-41.
- "The Double Identity of Chûshingura: Theater and History in Nineteenth-Century Prints." Impressions: The Journal of the Ukiyo-e Society of America, Inc. 26 (2004): 23-43.