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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Shimizu, Yoshiaki

Titel

Obituary : John M. Rosenfield : 1924-2013

Ist Teil von

• Archives of Asian Art, 2014-01, Vol.64 (2), p.211-213

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

International Bibliography of Art (IBA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• John M. Rosenfield of Harvard University, who taught Japanese art history for more than 25 years, died on December 16, 2013. In his postWorld War II career, Rosenfield rebuilt the discipline from the ground up. In America, and at Harvard in particular, Japanese art had no leading scholar to revive a field that had lain dormant during the Pacific War (1941-45). Japanese art had become nearly invisible. Museums in America had not exhibited Japanese art in those bleak years of the war; scholars who knew Japanese or had any knowledge of Japan, be it in academia or art museums, had enlisted in US military intelligence. It took more than a decade after the peace treaty was signed in 1951 before John Rosenfield was appointed to teach Japanese art, in 1965. [Publication Abstract]