<p>Modernization and Modernity Issues in Meiji Period Japan; Issues of censorship; Artist Biography; Creation of Persona; Related Issues of Artistic Flouting, Playfulness and the Juxtaposition of the Traditional and the Contemporary in the Making of Art in Nineteenth Century Japan</p>
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Email Address:
jordanb@pitt.edu
Family Name:
Jordan
Publications:
2013 “The Trickster in Japanese Art.” In: Education about Asia, Vol. 18, No. 1.
2007 “Potentially Disruptive: Censorship and the Painter Kawanabe Kyôsai” in Hiroshi Nara, ed., Inexorable Modernity, Japan’s grappling with modernity in the arts, Lexington Press
2003 Copying the Master and Stealing His Secrets: Talent and Training in Japanese Painting. Co-authored and co-edited book. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Pres
Qualifications:
PhD, University of Kansas, 1993
Department:
East Asian Languages and Literatures
Region:
Japan
Office:
4134 Wesley W. Posvar Hall
Office phone number:
412-648-7763
Rank:
Staff
Affiliated Faculty
Contact if:
Contact Dr. Jordan if you are interested in Japan studies, Japan internships, or K-12 professional development for educators.
Biography:
<p>Brenda G. Jordan received her PhD from the University of Kansas in Japanese art history. She teaches for the Departments of East Asian Languages and Literatures and History of Art and Architecture. Her research interests are early modern and modern Japanese art history, specifically issues of the dynamics of modernization and modernity in Japan. Jordan is the Director of the National Coordinating Site for the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. She also serves as the program manager for the Japanese internship program, as part of her duties as Japan studies coordinator. She is an avid gardener in her spare time, and enjoys traveling and hanging out with her husband and daughter Erika.</p>
Staff Ranking:
C
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