Japanese Art History 2001: The State and Stakes of Research

Yiengpruksawan discusses modern day research of Japanese art history, especially as it has taken shape in North America since the 1990s. She states that the discussion is not so much a need to survey who is doing what and what kinds of publication are setting the pace in Japanese art research, rather, the emphasis is to take stock of a field, a discursive practice, that began a little over a century ago at the interface of Japanese and Euro-American geopolitics and culture.