In the Shadow of Empire: Art in Occupied Japan (Lecture by Alicia Volk)
Alicia Volk, Professor of Japanese Art at the University of Maryland, speaks about 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 a country in the shadow of the Japanese and American empires variously accommodated and resisted the Cold War global realignment that followed on the heels of World War II.