Publicity and Propaganda in 1930s Japan: Modernism as Method

Gennifer Weisenfeld is Associate Professor of Japanese Art History and Visual Culture at Duke University. Her main field of research is nineteenth- and twentieth-century Japanese visual culture, particularly the impact of Japan's modern social and political transformations on artistic production and practice. She is currently working on two book projects: one on modern Japanese commercial design titled The Fine Art of Persuasion: Commercial Design in Twentieth-Century Japan; the other on cultural responses to the Great Kant Earthquake of 1923 titled Imaging Disaster: Visual Culture in Japan after the 1923 Great Kant Earthquake.