( Japan), Professor (Art History & Museotechnology)

Born in 5th. January 1952 in Japan.

Sponsorized by the Japanese Company for the Scientific Promotion of Research( depend of the Ministry for Education ) research project during 3 years 1) to establish a biography this artist specifies. 2) to clear up the means methodically use by the artist to make joinings. 3) to decipher the matters iconographiquement - papers applied has its works. 4) to put in relation to contemporary artists (Berlin-dadaistes, russians constructivists and russians suprematists) 5) to compile and publish a reasoned catalogue of Karl Waldmann.

Scholarities:

• Studied from 1971 to 1983 Art History in the Faculty of Letters and the Graduat School of Humanities at the University of Tokyo ( from 1974 to 1976, Fine Art in l'Ecole municipale des Beaux-Arts de la Ville d'Aix-en-Provence, and Art History in l'Institute de l'Histoire de l'Art at l'Universite d'Aix-Marseille II).

Diplom:

• Docteur es Lettres, The University of Tokyo, 1993.

Academic Careers:

• From 1984 to 1985, lecturer(Art History) in the Faculty of Humanities, The University of Hirosaki.


• From 1986 to 1993, associate professor(Art History) in the Faculty of Humanities, The University of Hirosaki.


• From 1994 to 1997, associate professor(Art History & Museology) in the University Museum, The University of Tokyo.


• From 1998 to now, professor(Museology & Museum Technology) in the University Museum The University of Tokyo.

Publications:

• Studies in XVth Century Provencal Paintings (Iwanami Publishing House, 1994, The 11th Shibusawa-Claudel Price)


• Museology : Culture & Strategy in France( University of Tokyo Press, 1995)


• University Museum : Concept, Practice & Perspective (University of Tokyo Press, 1996)


• Studies in Japanese moderne book designs (Genpusha, 2000)


• The 21st Century Museum : Philosophy & Strategy (University of Tokyo Press, 2000)


• Lecture on Mark Dion's Microcosmographia (Heibonsha Publishing House, 2004)


• Czech Avant-Garde (Heibonsha Publishing House, 2006)


• Chember of Curiosities from the Collection of The University of Tokyo (Photographed by Yoshihiko Ueda), (Akaaka-sha Publishing House, 2006)

Articles in occidental languages:

• The Boulbon altarpiece and its iconographical programme, Art History (British Association of Art Historians), vol.10, no.1, London, March 1987, pp.12-22.
  
• Le Triptyque du Buisson ardent de Nicolas Froment et son programme iconographique, artibus et historiae, no.24(XII), IRSA Verlag, Vienna, sept.1991, pp.9-27.
  
• La Resurrection de Lazare : Triptyque de Nicolas Froment et la bulle "Exsecrabilis", Revue de l'Art ( Centre national de la Recherche scientifique / Ministere de la Culture), no.109, Paris, 1995-3, pp.46-52.
  
• Le Triptyque de l'Annonciation d'Aix et son programme iconographique, Artibus e Historiae (IRSA Verlag), no.39(XX), Vienna/Cracovie, dec.1999, pp.55-74.
  
• From "Collection Royale" to "Collection Publique" : The Formation of The Louvre, Japanese Civilization in the Modern World, XVII : Collection and representation, Seri Ethnological Studies no.54, March 2001, pp.51-65.
  
• Objets d'Art and Scientific Objects, Sugimoto, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Editions Actes Sud, 2004.
  
• Studies in Futurism(I-VIII), ACAC(Aomori Contemporary Art Centre), nos.0-7, 2001-2007.
  

Exhibitions & Catalogues:

• Divers Forms in Eastern Asia (University Museum, 1994)
  
• Moving Earth and its Faunes (University Museum, 1995)
  
• In Between the Lines : The History of type-set Printing in Japan (University Museum, 1996, The 31st Book design Grand-Prix)
  
• The Archaeology of Science (University of Tokyo, 1997)
  
• Between Original and Reproduction : The Art of Making Copies --- From D(uchamp) to D(NA)(University Museum, 2001)
  
• Capek brothers & Czech Avant-garde (Museum of modern Art, Kanagawa, 2002)
  
• Microcosmographia : Mark Dion's Chamber of Curiosities (Koishikawa Annex, University Museum, 2003)
  
• Czech Book Designs (Toppan Printing Museum, 2003)
  
• Propaganda 1904-1945 : between Modernism and Totalitarianism (University Museum, 2004)
  
• Hiroshi Sugimoto (Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, 2004)
  
• Global Souk (University Museum, Koishikawa Annex, 2004)
  
• Mriko Mori (University Museum, Koshikawa Annex, 2005)
  
• Chember of Curiosities from the Collection of The University of Tokyo (Photographed by Yoshihiko Ueda), (University Museum, 2007)