Karen Fraser, Ph.D.
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Contact:Santa Clara UniversityDepartment of Art and Art History 500 El Camino Real Santa Clara, CA 95053 Phone: (408) 554-4486 Email: kmfraser@scu.edu |
Educational Background
Ph.D., Stanford University, Art HistoryM.A., University of South Florida, Art History
B.S., University of Miami, Communications and Art History
Teaching
ARTH 11a, 12a: Cultures and Ideas (Contact Zones, Arts East and West)ARTH 23: Introduction to the Arts of the Later Modern West
ARTH 26: Introduction to the Arts of Asia
ARTH 160: East-West Encounters in the Visual Arts
ARTH 161: Photography in Japan
ARTH 162: Visual Culture of Modern Japan
ARTH 163: The Japanese Print
Research
Modern Japanese visual culture circa 1850-1960, particularly photography production and reception within Japan; the relationship of photography to class, gender, regional, and national identity; the uses of photography in international exchange; women in Japanese visual culture; cross-cultural interactions and influences between Asia and the West; museum and exhibition history in Japan and the West.Representative Publications
"Beauty Battle: Politics and Portraiture in Late Meiji Japan (1868-1912)" (forthcoming)
2011 Photography and Japan (London: Reaktion Books, June 2011)
2009 “Studio Practices in Early Japanese Photography: The Tomishige Archive,” History of Photography, vol. 33 no. 2 (Spring 2009): 132-144
