Ellen P Conant

Biographic Data

ID1247302
NAMEEllen P Conant
GIVEN NAMESEllen P
FAMILY NAMEConant
SIGNATURECONANT E P
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1966
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX1

  • Japan “Abroad” at the Chicago Exposition, 1893

    Ellen P ConantCHAPTERChallenging Past and Present2017

  • Challenging Past and Present: The Metamorphosis of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Art

    Martin Collcutt, Doris Croissant et al.BOOKChallenging Past and Present2017

    The complex and coherent development of Japanese art during the course of the nineteenth century was inadvertently disrupted by a political event: the Meiji Restoration of 1868. Scholars of both the preceding Edo (1615–1868) and the succeeding Meiji (1868–1912) eras have shunned the decades bordering this arbitrary divide, thus creating an art-historical void that the former view as a period of waning technical and creative inventiveness and the …

  • The Japan-British Exhibition of 1910: Gateway to the Island Empire of the East

    Ellen P Conant, Ayako Hotta-ListerBOOKJapan-British Exhibition Of 19102013Cited by: 2

    The rapid development of Japan at the turn of the last century, including the defeat of Russia in 1904-5, intrigued the western Imperial powers, but also aroused reactions of contempt and suspicion. Britain was the most important of the powers upon which Japan earnestly wished to impress herself to mitigate the rising tide of anti-Japanese sentiment. An exhibition in London, therefore, was seen as a timely event by the Meiji Government to advance…

  • Japanese Painting and National Identity: Okakura Tenshin and His Circle (review)

    Ellen P ConantARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies2006

    Reviewed by: Japanese Painting and National Identity: Okakura Tenshin and His Circle Ellen P. Conant (bio) Japanese Painting and National Identity: Okakura Tenshin and His Circle. By Victoria Weston. Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2004. 322 pages. $65.00. Victoria Weston displays the knowledge, skill, and temerity necessary to tackle one of the most politically fraught and culturally contentious topics in the hist…

  • Japan: Painting after 1868 (Meiji and after)

    Stephen Addiss, Shigeo Chiba et al.CHAPTER2003

  • Nihonga, Transcending the Past: Japanese-Style Painting, 1868-1968

    Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan, Ellen P Conant et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1999

    Presentation de l'exposition Nihonga, transcending the past : Japanese-style painting, 1868-1968 organisee au Saint Louis Art Museum (Missouri, Etats-Unis) du 3 novembre au 3 decembre et du 6 decembre au 31 decembre 1995, destinee a montrer les caracteristiques et l'evolution du style Nihonga (peinture de style japonais executee sur supports et formats traditionnels)

  • Nihonga, Transcending the Past: Japanese-Style Painting, 1868-1968

    Patricia Fister, Ellen P Conant et al.ARTICLEMonumenta Nipponica1997

  • Japanese Genre Painting; The Lively Art of Renaissance Japan

    Ellen P Conant, Kondo Ichitaro et al.ARTICLEArtibus Asiae1966