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Yuko Ishii Last modified date:2023.12.06



Graduate School


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Academic Degree
Doctor of Literature
Country of degree conferring institution (Overseas)
No
Field of Specialization
Art Studies, Art History
Outline Activities
Her research field is modern art and the historical avant-garde, with particular emphasis on surrealist art in the 20th century. In 2014, she published a book that focused on the works of Max Ernst and his Collage. In 2019, The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism was published from Bloomsbury, to which she contributed articles on surrealism in Japan. Currently, she is engaged in a comparative study of the reception and development of surrealism both in the U.K. and Japan in the interwar period by investigating their international exhibitions and curatorial practice.
Research
Research Interests
  • Functions of Exhibition in Surrealist Art
    keyword : Surrealism, Exhibition
    2022.04~2025.03.
  • Theories of Taste and Avant-Garde Art in the UK Between the Two World Wars
    keyword : Art History, United Kingdom, Taste, Avant-Garde Art, Two World Wars
    2017.04~2022.03.
  • A comparative study on creative modifications through the internationalization of Surrealism.
    keyword : Surrealism in Japan, Surrealism in Britain, Herbert Read, Shuzo Takiguchi
    2014.04~2017.03.
  • Max Ernst's Collages
    keyword : Max Ernst, Collages, Vox Angelica, Grid, Mythology
    2010.04~2013.03.
  • Surrealist exhibitions between the interwar period.
    keyword : Surrealism, Exhibitions, Collage
    2011.04~2014.03.
Academic Activities
Books
1. Michael Richardson, Dawn Ades, Steven Harris, Krzysztof Fijalkowski, Georges Sebbag, et al., The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 3 vols, 1,728 pages., 2019.04.
2. Beyond Collage: Producing and Displaying the Works of Max Ernst.
Papers
1. ISHII Yuko, The Encounters Obscured: Pre-War Japanese Avant-Garde Artists and British Modern Art, Islands in the Global Age: Identification, Estrangement and Renewal in the East-West Dialogue, to be published, 2023.12.
2. Surrealism and Étranger: A 1930s Representation of Stonehenge.
3. Yuko Ishii, Michael Richardson, National Overviews; Japan, The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism, vol. 1., 83-92, 2019.04.
4. Yuko Ishii, Surrealists A-Z; Shuzo Takiguchi, The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism, vol. 3., 301-305, 2019.04.
5. The Road is Wider than Long: Galleries in Cork Street and Surrealism’s Reception in the United Kingdom during the 1930’s.
6. Surrealism and Spectacle : Notes on Phantom/Spectre at the International Surrealist Exhibition in London.
7. Discussion on the juxtaposition of mutually distant objects seen at the International Surrealist Exhibition in London (1936).
8. The painting of 'contradiction' and 'evasion': the reception of Cubism by Andre Breton and Carl Einstein.
Presentations
1. ISHII Yuko, Functions of Exhibition in Surrealist Art, Space Between/ Aidagara: Landscape, Mindscape, Architecture, 2023.03.
2. ISHII Yuko, The Encounters Obscured: Pre-War Japanese Avant-Garde Artists and British Modern Art, Islands in the Global Age: Identification, Estrangement and Renewal in the East-West Dialogue, 2022.03.
3. ISHII Yuko, A Letter from Roland Penrose: Exchange between Surrealism in Britain and Japan, Scoping Event Glasgow-Kyushu Research Collaboration in the Arts and Humanities, 2021.04.
4. ISHII Yuko, Exhibiting Surrealism: The Reception of Surrealism in Japan from a Viewpoint of Gallery Space, Surrealisms 2019, the 2nd conference of the International Society for the Study of Surrealism (ISSS), 2019.08.
5. ISHII Yuko, Galleries in Cork Street and the U.K. Reception of Surrealism in the 1930s, 第2回 九州大学女性研究者ダイバーシティシンポジウム, 2019.03.
6. Surrealism on the shell: the international surrealist exhibition in London (1936)..
7. Max Ernst in New York in the early 40's: Max Ernst's 《Vox Angelica》(1943年).
8. Displaying conflicts and/or Collaging images: Max Ernst's Vox Angeilica.
9. Max Ernst’s Vox Angelica: the creating of a ‘new myth’.
Membership in Academic Society
  • The Japan Art History Society
  • The Japanese Society for Aesthetics
  • Kyushu Art Society
  • Société franco-japonaise d'art et d'archéologie
  • Hiroshima Society for Science of Arts
  • International Society for the Study of Surrealism (ISSS)
Educational
Educational Activities
Interdisciplinary Collaborative Learning of Social Issues, Kikan-Education Seminar, Introduction to Art Studies and Course for Current Issues Ⅲ as Kikan-Education. History of Western Art, tutorial, and seminars for graduate students of humanities.
Social
Professional and Outreach Activities
Glasgow-Kyushu Research Collaboration in the Arts and Humanities.