{"id":201,"date":"2018-06-05T17:09:33","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T17:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/160-art\/facultystaff\/karishepherdsonscott\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T16:49:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T16:49:53","slug":"karishepherdsonscott","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/facultystaff\/karishepherdsonscott\/","title":{"rendered":"Kari Shepherdson-Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kari Shepherdson-Scott specializes in Japanese visual culture from the nineteenth and twentieth-century, focusing on the visual expression of national identity, empire, war, and memory. Her work on Japanese images of occupied Manchuria during the 1930s and early 1940s has been recognized by the Fulbright Japan-United States Educational Commission, the Social Science Research Council, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. These projects include research on the art photographer Fuchikami Hakuy\u014d and his colleagues of the Manchuria Photographic Artists Association (<i>Mansh\u016b shashin sakka ky\u014dkai<\/i>), examining their relationship to soft power diplomacy in America in 1933, abstracted narratives of war in the late 1930s, and the role they played in aesthetic nostalgia in postwar Japan.\u00a0 She also has explored how the traumatic memory of the Great Kant\u014d Earthquake informed war media designed to ready Japanese civilians and spaces for incendiary bombing in the late 1930s. Building on an interest in war, media, and mobilization, she has also published research on the \u201cCapture of Wuhan\u201d Battle Panorama featured at the Building Great East Asia Exposition in 1939. This article is the foundation of her ongoing research on the multisensory recreation of battles as panoramas in the first years of the China-Japan War (1937-1945).<\/p>\n<p>While her research focuses on modern practices in Japan, she teaches more broadly in visual culture and all periods of Japanese and Chinese art.<\/p>\n<p><b>Course offerings include:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Introduction to Visual Culture<\/li>\n<li>Introduction to the Art of China (formerly Art of the East I: China)<\/li>\n<li>Introduction to the Art of Japan (formerly Art of the East II: Japan)<\/li>\n<li>Making Sacred: Religious Images and Spaces in Asia<\/li>\n<li>Japan and the (Inter)National Modern<\/li>\n<li>Embodiment and Subjectivity in Later Chinese Art<\/li>\n<li>Art, Trade, and Treasure of the \u201cSilk Road\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Publications:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEntertaining War: Spectacle and the Great \u2018Capture of Wuhan\u2019 Battle Panorama of 1939,\u201d <i>The Art Bulletin<\/i> 100, No. 4 (December 2018): 81-105.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArt Photography, Industry, and Empire: Japanese Soft Power in America, 1933-34,\u201d <i>Art History<\/i> 41, No. 4 (September 2018): 710-741.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRace behind the Walls: Contact and Containment in Japanese Images of Urban Manchuria.\u201d Christopher Hanscom and Dennis Washburn, eds. <i>The Affect of Difference: Representations of Race in East Asian Empires<\/i>. Honolulu: University of Hawai\u2019i Press, 2016: 180-206.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToward an \u2018Unburnable City\u2019: Reimagining the Urban Landscape in 1930s Japanese Media,\u201d <i>Journal of Urban History<\/i> Vol. 42, no.3 (Theme issue: Japanese Cities in Global Context) (May 2016): 582-603.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConflicting Politics and Contesting Borders: Exhibiting (Japanese) Manchuria at the Chicago World Fair, 1933-34.\u201d<i>Journal of Asian Studies<\/i> 74, No. 03 (August 2015): 539-564.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA Legacy of Persuasion: Japanese Photography and the Artful Politics of Remembering Manchuria,\u201d <i>Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts<\/i>, Issue 27 (Theme issue: Souvenirs and Objects of Remembrance) (2015): 124-147.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFuchikami Hakuy\u014d\u2019s <i>Evening Sun<\/i>: Manchuria, Memory, and the Aesthetic Abstraction of War.\u201d Ming Tiampo, Louisa McDonald, Asato Ikeda, eds. <i>Art and War in Japan and Its Empire, 1931-1960<\/i>. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2013: 275-291.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":141,"template":"","class_list":["post-201","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2177,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/201\/revisions\/2177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}