Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Publikationen Prof. Melanie Trede

Monographs



Interventions in the Political Iconography of Pictorial Narratives (working title)

[ with Lorenz Bichler] One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, Cologne, New York: Taschen, 2007.

Arts of Japan: The John C. Weber Collection; Kunst aus Japan: Die John C. Weber Sammlung, New York, editor of two separate exhibition catalogues in German and English (English edition with Julia Meech), Berlin: Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2006.

Image, Text and Audience: The Taishokan Narrative in Visual Representations of the Early Modern Period in Japan. Hamburg, New York: Peter Lang Verlag, 2003.

REVIEWS: Journal of Japanese Studies 32:1 (2006), by Melinda Takeuchi; Artibus Asiae 66: 1 (2006), 198-202 by Quitman Eugene Phillips.



Select Articles and Book Chapters

"Kunstausstellungen als ästhetische und politische Inszenierung: Tokyo in Berlin, Berlin in Tokyo" Schriftenreihe der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, 2009/2010.

メディアの働き──八幡縁起の伝承が絵に描かれ、物質化されて、どう機能してきたか “What’s in a medium? Multiple Visualities, Materialities and Functions of the Legend ‘The Karmic Origins of Hachiman’,” Bungaku 9 (2009), forthcoming.

"The Life and Afterlives of Hachiman Paintings, CE 1433" ( working title ), chapter in Foundation myths in Japan’s past & present , edited by Katja Triplett   ( work in progress)

"Banknote Design as the Battlefield of Gender Politics and National Representation in Meiji Japan,” in New Gender Constructs in Literature, the Visual and the Performing Arts of Modern China and Japan (1880s to 1930s) , edited by Doris Croissant, Joshua Mostow, and Catherine Yeh, Leiden: Brill, 2008 (in print)

 


"Edo: Images of a city between visual poetry and idealized reality / Edo: Bilder einer Stadt zwischen visueller Poesie und idealisierter Wirklichkeit / Images d’une ville entre poésie visuelle et réalité idéale”, in One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, Cologne, New York: Taschen, 2007, 7-27.

近 代国家の象徴としての古代女神 ―― 紙幣における「神功皇后」の表象 ―― (Kindai kokka no shôchô toshite no kodai megami: Shihei ni okeru ‘Jingû kôgô no hyôshô: Ancient Goddesses as Symbols of the Modern Nation State: The Representation of ‘Empress Jingû’ on Bank Notes), in Kajima bijutsu kenkyû 2006, 327-338.

"Lives of the Japanese Picture," in: Trede, Melanie, ed.: Arts of Japan: The John C. Weber Collection; / "Das wandelbare japanische Bild”, in: Trede, Melanie, ed.: Kunst aus Japan: Die John C. Weber Sammlung, New York, both: Berlin: Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2006, 20-27.

"Appell an den Kriegsgott: Ikonographische Innovationen im Dienst politischer Rivalität,” in Pfetsch, Frank R., Hg.: Konflikt, Heidelberger Jahrbücher, 2004, 255-277.

"Terminology and Ideology: Coming to Terms with "Classicism” in Japanese Art Historical Writing”, in: Elizabeth Lillehoj (ed.): Critical Perspectives on Classicism in Japanese Painting, 1600-1700, Honolulu: Hawai’i Press 2003, 21-52.

"Kurashishizumu to kanon keisei: 17seiki Nihon kaiga ni tsuite no bijutsushi gensetsu (‘Classicism’ and Canon Formation: Art Historical Discourse on Seventeenth Century Japanese Painting)”, Bijutsu Forum 21 no. 5 (2001), 65-69.

[Associate Editor] Impressions. The Journal of the Ukiyo-e Society of America, Inc., vol. 22 (Fall 2000).

"Kerun tôyô bijutsukan shozô <Taishokan'e> no juyô bigakuteki kôsatsu (The 'Taishokan' Paintings in the Cologne Museum of East Asian Art -- A Study in the Theory of Reception Aesthetics)", Bijutsushi 141 (October 1996), 45-63.

 


"Das Bild der Fremden -- Nanban-Stellschirme und Genremalerei im Westlichen Stil des 16. und 17. Jahrunderts (Images of Strangers - Nanban Screens and Genre Painting in the Early Western Style of the 16th and 17th Centuries)"; "Begegnungen zweier Kulturen -- Nanban-Kunst und Kunstgewerbe (Encounter of Two Cultures - Nanban Arts and Crafts)", in: Croissant, Doris / Ledderose, Lothar (Eds.): Japan und Europa 1543-1929, Berlin: Argon Verlag, 1993, 235-239, 243-247.



Reviews

Review article:  JOSEF KREINER (ed.): Japanese Collections in European Museums. Reports from the Toyota-Foundation-Symposium Königswinter 2003, 2 vols., Bonn: Bier’sche Verlagsanstalt; vol. I (256 p.), vol. II (774 p.), maps, tables, a bibliography, and several indices, Japonica Humboldtiana 10 (2006), 141-153.

"ANDREW M. WATSKY. Chikubushima: Deploying the Sacred Arts in Momoyama Japan, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2004. 368 pp.; 64 color ills.; 86 b/w. $45.00,” in Art Bulletin 87:2 (Summer 2005), 343-346.

Review article: Mönche, Monster, Schöne Damen: Japanische Malerei, Buch- und Holzschnittkunst des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts , Ostasiatische Zeitschrift N.S. 1 (Spring 2001): 53-62.

"...und sogar die Soyasoßenflasche. Zur Ausstellung 'Japanische Kultur: Die fünfzig Nachkriegsjahre' (...And Even the Bottle of Soya Sauce: On the exhibition 'Japanese Culture: The Fifty Postwar Years')", Mitteilungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ostasiatische Kunst 16 (July 1996), 34-37.


Select Conference Papers and Public Lectures
June 10, 2009


"Reflections on the Mediality of Narrative Handscrolls"
"New Perspectives on Japanese Pictorial Narratives"
International Workshop, Institute of East Asian Art History, University of Heidelberg
March 18, 2009

"Hiroshige's Potemkinsche Dörfer"
Museum of Applied Arts, Frankfurt
February 4, 2009
"Wie japanisch ist japanische Kunst?"
National Academy of Arts, Stuttgart
October 5, 2008


メディアの働き──八幡縁起の伝承が絵に描かれ、物質化されて、どう機能してきたか “What’s in a medium? Multiple Visualities, Materialities and Functions of the Legend ‘The Karmic Origins of Hachiman’”
Iwanami Bungaku research group “Image, Text, Media,” Tokyo
July 9, 2008 "Stellschirmmalerei in Japan”, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn
July, 2008

"Lives of a Japanese Picture", Graduate School Transnational Media Events from Early Modern Times to the Present, University of Gießen
May 29, 2008

"The visual iconography of war in aesthetic guises: the Hachiman legend”, Austrian Academy of Science, and University of Vienna
May 8, 2008


"Kunstausstellungen der 1930er und 1940er Jahre als ästhetische und politische Inszenierung: Tokyo in Berlin, Berlin in Tokyo”, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, National Museums of Berlin
October 15, 2007

"Tokyo in Berlin, Berlin in Tokyo: Kunstausstellungen und Kulturdiplomatie”, Conference: Von, mit und über Japan reden - 120 Jahre Japanforschung in Berlin, Berlin Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Gendarmenmarkt, Berlin
February 10, 2007 "Japanische Kunst und Weltkunstgeschichte” [Japanese Art and World Art History] , J apanese-German Cultural Institute, Cologne
July 12, 2006

"Antike Amazonen als Heldinnen der Moderne: Der Fall Japan” [Amazones of Antiquity as Heroines of Modernity: The Case of Japan], Public Lectures, University of Heidelberg
February 1, 2006 "Wie japanisch ist japanische Kunst?” [How Japanese is Japanese Art?], Lecture as part of the Studium generale lecture series at the Phillips-University, Marburg
November 10, 2005

"Mythos und Moderne: Die Formierung eines visuellen Nationalsymbols im meiji-zeitlichen Japan” [Myth and Modernity: The Formation of a Visual Symbol of Meiji-Period Japan], Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zürich
October 22, 2005 Moderation of a Panel for the International Conference "Korean Wall Painting”, Organised by Prof. Jong-Hee Lee-Kalisch, Free University Berlin, Department of Art History
September 2, 2005



"Mother or Man? Woman or Deity?: New Identities for Amaterasu and Empress Jingû in Modern Japan”, paper for the panel: "No Borders to Cross: Challenging the Buddhist/Shinto, Sacred/Secular, and other (Alleged) Divides in Artistic Representations of Divinities", The 11th Conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies, Vienna, August 31 – September 3, 2005
June 29, 2005

"Gibt es DIE Japanische Kunst?", Inaugural Lecture as Newly Appointed Professor, University of Heidelberg, Alte Aula
June 10, 2005


"The Life and Afterlives of Hachiman Paintings (1433 CE)", Center for Japanese Religious Studies, Symposium: Foundation myths in Japan's past & present, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 9 and 10 June 2005
April 27, 2005

"Myth, Mother, Money: A National Symbol in Meiji Japan", Japan Research Centre Seminar Series, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
October 29, 2004



"Creating National Symbols in Meiji Japan: The Changing Gender of the Mythical Empress Jingu kogo", paper for the International Conference, "New Gender Constructs in Literature, the Visual and the Performing Arts of Modern China and Japan", organized by Doris Croissant and Catherine Yeh, University of Heidelberg, Internationales Wissenschaftsforum, October 27-30
March 29, 2003


"Aesthetic Evaluations, Fragmentations and the Art Market of Japanese Handscrolls", Paper for the panel "Objects in Pieces: The Culture of the Fragment in Japan", The Association of Asian Studies, Washington D.C.
July 13, 2002


"Japanese pictorial narrative and the 'end of creativity'?", International Symposium, Creativity in East Asian Art History in honour of the Sixtieth Birthday of Prof. Lothar Ledderose, University of Heidelberg, Department of Art History
April 17, 2002

"Malerei, Macht und Magie im Japan des Fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts: Ashikaga Yoshinoris Produktion von Hachiman Querrollen", University of Heidelberg , Department of Art History
April 7, 2002



"Yoshinori’s Patronage of Hachiman Cult Paintings”, Paper for the panel "Miraculous Tales of the Ashikaga: Shogunal Patronage of Painted Engi in Medieval Japan”, organised by Melissa McCormick, Columbia University, The Association of Asian Studies, Washington D.C.
March 18, 2002

"Pictures and Politics in the 1430s: Ashikaga Yoshinori’s Hachiman handscrolls”, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
November 30, 2001 "Noble Pursuits: Ashikaga Yoshinori’s Patronage of Hachiman Cult Paintings", Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
August 11, 2001

"Ashikaga Yoshinori’s Patronage of Hachiman Cult Paintings: Cultural Politics in the 1430s", Paper for the panel "Politics of Arts Patronage in Japan”, Second International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS), Free University, Berlin
May 19, 2001


"Paintings That Matter: The Visual Metamorphoses of Medieval Short Stories in Seventeenth century Japan", Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California at Los Angeles
March 29, 2001 "Print Culture of 19th and Early 20th Century in Japan", Japan Society, New York
May 17, 2000

"Prince Genji and the Aviary: The Matching of Folding Screens in 17th century Japan", Japan Society, New York
May 1, 2000

"Collecting 'Art' in pre-Meiji Japan", workshop organised for and at the Institute of Fine Arts; Introduction to the conference
March 9, 2000




"Memory and Identity: pictures in Japanese ballad-drama books of the early 17th century", p aper for the panel "The Informing Image: ‘Illustration’ in Early Modern Chinese and Japanese Printed Editions of Narrative, Dramatic, and Poetic Texts", organized by Joshua S. Mostow, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, The Association of Asian Studies, San Diego, California
November 20, 1999 "Imag(in)ing History: The visual transformation of the Taishokan narrative", New England East Asian Art History Seminar, Harvard University, Boston
June 10, 1999


"Terminology and Ideology: Coming to terms with the term "Classicism” in Japanese art historical writing", Inaugural Sanwa Symposium, June 10 to June 12, 1999, The Clark Center for Japanese Art; Visalia, California
Mai 3, 1999

"All’s well that ends well: Image, Medium, and Audience in Pictorial Narratives of Seventeenth century Japan", Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
April 20, 1999

"Expanding Visions: Re-guarding Pictorial Narratives of Seventeenth century Japan", Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
November 5, 1998

"Victory via Vision -- Shikaku ni yori shôri. Nihon kinsei monogatari kaiga ni okeru nitchû kankei no hyôgen to kaiga media no yakuwari", Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties
June, 25th-28th 1998


"gENDering the implied audience of Taishokan visual representations", paper for the panel "Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Japanese Art", Panel organiser: Joshua Mostow, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, First International Convention of Asian Scholars (ICAS), Noordwijkerhout, Netherlands
May 10th, 1996



"E no naka ni kanshôsha wo yomu -- Nihon kinsei shoki monogatari kaiga no shakaiteki kinô (Envisioning the beholder: A study in the Function of Japanese Narrative Painting)", paper for the 41st International Conference of Eastern Studies, National Education Center, Tokyo
May 28th, 1995



"Kerun tôyô bijutsukan shozô <Taishokan'e> no juyô bigakuteki kôsatsu (The 'Taishokan' Paintings in the Cologne Museum of East Asian Art, - A Study in the Theory of Reception Aesthetics)", paper read in Japanese at the 48th National Conference of Japanese Art History, Dôshisha University, Kyoto


Select Courses Taught
Lectures:
"Collecting, Sponsoring and Exhibiting 'Art' in Japan"

"Japanese 'Art' and Art Historiography in Seventeenth Century Japan"


"The Politics of Painting in Architectural Spaces in Japan"


"New Research in Japanese Narrative Painting"


"Japan ca. 1600: The Visual Construction of New Identities"

Graduate Seminars:

Reading on Collecting Histories

"Selected Works of Japanese Modern Art in the John C. Weber Collection, New York"

"Patronage and Politics of "engi” Paintings (Shrine- and Temple Legends) in Muromachi-period Japan"


"In and Out of the Canon: Pictorial Narratives of the Early Modern Period in Japan"


"Gender Issues in Japanese Art and Art Historical Writing"


"Collecting Japanese Art and the Art Market in New York City"


"Book Production and Canon Formation in Early Modern Japan"

Undergraduate
Seminars:

"Screen paintings in Japan"

"Text and Image in 17th century Japan; Works in German Collections"


"Graduate Seminar: Politics and Patronage: Japanese Painting of the Muromachi Period"


"Undergraduate Seminar: Aspects of material culture of early modern China and Japan"


"Colloquium for Graduate Students: New Research"


"The Ise monogatari in the Visual Culture of Japan"


"Medium and Technique in Japanese visuality"

Verantwortlich: SH
Letzte Änderung: 10.02.2009
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