Gennifer Weisenfeld

{{Short description|American art historian}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}}

{{Infobox academic

| name = Gennifer S. Weisenfeld

| education = Wesleyan University (BA)
Princeton University (MA, PhD)

| discipline = Japan scholar

| workplaces = Duke University

}}

Gennifer Weisenfeld is an American art historian and professor at Duke University.{{Cite web |last=Swanson |first=Amy |title=Lecture puts new spin on Japanese art |url=https://oaklandpostonline.com/11253/campus/lecture-puts-new-spin-on-japanese-art/ |access-date=2024-03-05 |website=The Oakland Post}}{{Cite web |date=2018-05-03 |title=Q&A: Gennifer Weisenfeld on Duke's Plan for New Humanities Labs {{!}} Duke Today |url=https://today.duke.edu/2018/05/qa-gennifer-weisenfeld-dukes-plan-new-humanities-labs |access-date=2024-03-05 |website=today.duke.edu |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Podcast Ep. 3 {{!}} Gennifer Weisenfeld |url=https://www.japansocietyboston.org/podcast/gennifer-weisenfeld |access-date=2024-03-05 |website=JapanSocietyOfBoston |language=en}} Weisenfeld is a specialist on modern and contemporary Japanese art, visual culture, and design.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2015-03-07 |title=The problems and pleasure of publishing the horrors of the 3/11 tsunami |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2015/03/07/books/problems-pleasure-publishing-horrors-311-tsunami/ |access-date=2024-03-05 |website=The Japan Times |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=“You Just Have to Read This…” Books by Wesleyan Authors Hinton ’85, Ohashi ’20, and Weisenfeld ’87 |url=https://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2023/05/09/you-just-have-to-read-this-books-by-wesleyan-authors-hinton-85-ohashi-20-and-weisenfeld-8/ |access-date=2024-03-05 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Selling Shiseido: The Aesthetics of Health and Beauty in Japanese Cosmetics Advertising - Lecture by Professor Gennifer Weisenfeld - Duke University |url=https://uwm.edu/arthistory/events/selling-shiseido-the-aesthetics-of-health-and-beauty-in-japanese-cosmetics-advertising-lecture-by-professor-gennifer-weisenfeld-duke-university/ |access-date=2024-03-05 |website=Art History |language=en-US}}

Books

  • MAVO: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1931 (2001){{Cite book |last=Weisenfeld |first=Gennifer Stacy |title=Mavo: Japanese artists and the avant-garde, 1905-1931 |date=2002 |publisher=University of California press |isbn=978-0-520-22338-7 |series=Twentieth-century Japan |location=Berkeley (Calif.)}}
  • Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan’s Great Earthquake of 1923 (2012){{Cite book |last=Weisenfeld |first=Gennifer Stacy |title=Imaging disaster: Tokyo and the visual culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923 |date=2012 |publisher=University of California press |isbn=978-0-520-27195-1 |series=Asia |location=Berkeley}}
  • Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan (2023){{Cite book |last=Weisenfeld |first=Gennifer Stacy |title=Gas mask nation: visualizing civil air defense in wartime Japan |date=2023 |publisher=The University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-81644-9 |location=Chicago (Il.)}}

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