“Changes” : Simeon Solomon and Japonism

This is my hypothesis that Japonism and the cultivation of individual autonomy such as that of sexuality after the 1860s could be possibly linked. About a century later when David Bowie created the persona “Ziggy Stardust,” it could have been inevitable that he choose to wear oriental clothing such as the eccentric stage costume designed...

“Space Oddity”

In this first discussion, I would like to briefly show the delineation of depth “perspective” in western paintings and Japanese prints: Western paintings traditionally prioritize creation of a three-dimensional space using perspective technique. The appreciation of paintings relied on the way in which the painters created a three-dimensional illusion in two dimensional space, without drawing...