Artistic styles exist only in retrospect. While many of their defining characteristics are formulated in manifestos by pioneering artists, a style can’t be fully understood until it has become a thing ...

Michael Laver’s research interests are diverse and wide-ranging, although to date he has published mainly in the field of early modern Japan. His first book, Japan’s Economy by Proxy, details Japanese ...

Globetrotting—Exploring Early Modern Japan Construction of National Identity Through Images of Warfare—Viewing Woodblock Prints from the Sino-Japanese and Russo-Japanese Wars Let’s Go See the Black ...