Timon Screech

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Timon Screech (born September 28, 1961 in Birmingham , England ) is Professor of Japanese Art History at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London . He specializes in the Edo period .

Life

He received his BA in Japanese Studies from Oxford in 1985 and a PhD in Art History from Harvard in 1991. He also studied in Geneva.

After graduating, Screech went to the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. to the Department of Art History and Archeology. He has held a chair in Japanese art history there since 2006. Screech was visiting professor at the University of Chicago and Gakushūin University and Waseda University in Tokyo . He has also taught at the private university in Tama near Tokyo. In 2014 he was elected to the Academia Europaea and in 2018 to the British Academy .

School of Oriental and African Studies

Screech's subject at SOAS is Japanese art history, with a focus on painting from the Edo period, the contacts between Japan and Europe in the 18th century, and Japanese history of science. Critical reflection on art history is also one of his areas of interest.

Sainsbury Institute

Screech is a London member of the Center for the Study of Japanese Art and Culture founded in 1999 by Sir Robert Sainsbury and Lady Sainsbury. The independent Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures works closely with the University of East Anglia and SOAS.

Japan Society, London

Screech is a senior member of the Japan Society of London .

Publications (selection)

  • 2007: Ningen kouryuu no edo bijutsushi [Edo art and person swapping ], University of Tokyo Press, Tokyo.
  • 2006: Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822. London: Routledge Curzon. ISBN 0203099850 OCLC 65177072 , Google Books
  • 2006: Edo no igirisu netsu [England in the Edo period]. Kodansha, Tokyo. ISBN 4-0625-8352-6
  • 2005: Pictures, the Most Part Bawdy: The Anglo-Japanese Painting Trade in the Early 1600s . In: Art Bulletin. Volume 87, No. 1, pp. 50-72.
  • 2005: Introduction . In: Tim Screech, editor: Japan Extolled and Decried: Park Oeter Thunberg and the Shogun's Realm. Routledge Shorton, London.
  • 2005, edited by: Japan Extolled and Decried: Carl Peter Thunberg and Japan. Routledge Shorton, London. ISBN 0-7007-1719-6 (bound); ISBN 978-0-203-02035-7 (e-book)
  • 2003: Sex and Consumerism in Edo Japan . In: Consuming Bodies: Sex and Consumerism in Japanese Contemporary Art , Reaction, London.
  • 2002: Dressing Samuel Pepys: Japanese Garments and International Diplomacy in the Edo Period . In: Orientations. Volume 2, pp. 50-57.
  • 2002: Erotyczne obrazy japonskie 1700-1820. Universitas Krakow. ISBN 1-8618-9030-3
  • 2002: The Edo Pleasure Districts as' Pornotopia . In: Orientations , Volume 2, pp. 36-42.
  • 2001: The Birth of the Anatomical Body . In: Births and Rebirths in Japanese Art , Hotei Press, Leiden.
  • 2001: The Visual Legacy of Dodonaeus in Botanical and Human Categorization . In: Dodonaeus in Japan: Translation and the Scientific Mind in Tokugawa Japan , Leuven University Press, Leuwen.
  • 2000, Editor: The Shogun's Painted Culture: Fear and Creativity in the Japanese States, 1760-1829 , London. ISBN 1-8618-9064-8
  • 1998, Editing: Sex and the Floating World: Erotic Imagery in Japan, 1720-1810 . London. ISBN 1-86189-030-3 .
  • 1997: Edo no karada o hiraku [opening the Edo body]. Sakuhinsha, Tokyo. ISBN 4-8789-3753-X .
  • 1996: The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-5214-6106-5 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Membership directory: Timon Screech. Academia Europaea, accessed January 7, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Screech, Timon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British art historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham , England