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Lecture: In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan (Alicia Volk)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKQvL47lC08 On June 9, 2025, Alicia Volk, Professor of Japanese Art at the University of Maryland, discussed her new book, In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan. This publication unearths an immensely creative yet almost entirely overlooked body of Japanese art. Introducing captivating but little-known paintings, prints, and sculpture made during the US occupation (1945–1952), her talk shows how the forgotten art of…