Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer

Ausgewählte Publikationen

• 'Contested Comparisons: Franz Kline and Japanese Calligraphy', in AnnMarie Perl (ed.), In Focus: Meryon 1960–1 by Franz Kline, Tate Research Publication, 2017; http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/in-focus/meryon/japanese-calligraphy
• Tatami and Wood: Ink Rubbings and the Discussion of Materiality in Postwar Japanese Calligraphy and Art. – IN: World Art, Volume 6, 2016, issue 2, pp. 269-291; http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21500894.2016.1187668
• Neudefinitionen der japanischen Kalligrafie: Reaktionen auf die Meiji-Restauration und auf den Zweiten Weltkrieg. – IN: Ostasiatische Zeitschrift, No.26, Berlin, autumn 2013, pp. 29-37.
• 戦後の日本前衛書道と欧米抽象絵画における余白の概念についてAbout the Concept of Blank Space Yohaku in Japanese Avant-Garde Calligraphy and Euro-American Abstract Painting. – IN: Kambayashi Tsunemichi (ed.) 〈書の美学〉の伝統と変容  Tradition and Transformation in Aesthetics of East Asian Calligraphy. Tokyo: Sangensha, 2016, pp. 384-412. http://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BB2107226X
• The Line Between Calligraphy and Painting: A View from Postwar Japan. — IN: Gerhard Wolf and Marzia Faietti (ed.) The Power of Line. Munich: Hirmer, 2015, pp. 118-128. http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/P/bo23387465.html
• Calligraphy Section of the Joseon Art Exhibition: A Place of Tension between Different Art Systems. – IN: NMK 2013 Museum Network Fellowship Research Papers, Seoul 2013, pp. 67-83.

Work in Progress

• Stretching a Rainbow: Postwar Japanese Avant-garde Calligraphy (book project in preparation)
• Calligraphy and Postwar Action Painting: A View from Japan (article manuscript in preparation)
• On the Notion of Avant-Garde in Postwar Japanese Calligraphy (in preparation for: Christine Guth, Melanie Trede and Mio Wakita (ed.) Japanese art—Global Dimensions. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017)

Ausgewählte Vorträge

Organisation, Moderation und Vortrag

• 2017: Panel “Postwar Calligraphic Modernisms: Lines of Connection”, presentation: “The Calligraphic Other: Japanese Calligraphers' Postwar Encounter with Arabic Calligraphy”, College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, February 15-18
• 2016: Panel „Amateurism and the Art of Calligraphy in Postwar Japan“(co-organized with Yasuko Tsuchikane), presentation: „Amateur Calligraphy in Professional Ceramics and Ikebana: The Cases of Teshigahara Sōfū and Kitaōji Rosanjin“, AAS-in-Asia, Kyoto, June 24-27
• 2015: Japan Art History Forum Sponsored Panel “Avant-garde Reformulations of the 'Traditional Arts' in Postwar Japan“, presentation: “Ink Rubbing, Materiality and the Avant-garde of Postwar Calligraphy”, Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, Chicago, March 26-29

Sondervorträge

• 2017: Calligraphy and Cultural Exchange between Japan, United States, and Europe in the Postwar Years, inaugural lecture, “Scholar Spotlight” lecture series of the Japan Information and Culture Center of the Embassy of Japan in the U.S., Washington, D.C., July 25

• 2017: The role of media and photography in connecting postwar Japanese calligraphy and action painting, international symposium “Writing and Picturing in Post-1945 Asian Art”, Chicago, April 21-23

• 2017: To Write or to Draw? Discussion of Readability versus Visuality in Postwar Japanese Avant-garde Calligraphy, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, March 3

• 2015: On the Notion of Avant-Garde in Postwar Japanese Calligraphy, international symposium “Histories of Japanese Art and Their Global Contexts: Global Directions”, Heidelberg, October 22-23

• 2015: Tatami and Wood: Ink Rubbings and the Discussion of Materiality in Postwar Japanese Calligraphy and Art, workshop “Confronting Matter: Artistic Practices and Discourses of Sciences and Technologies in Postwar Japanese Art”, Berlin, October 26-27

• 2015: 戦後の日本前衛書道と欧米抽象絵画における余白の概念についてAbout the Concept of Blank Space Yohaku in Japanese Avant-Garde Calligraphy and Euro-American Abstract Painting, symposium “Tradition and Transformation in Aesthetics of East Asian Calligraphy”, Niigata, September 2-5 (in Japanese)

Konferenzvorträge

• 2015: Between Primitivism and Archaism: Dialogue of Postwar Japanese Avant-garde Calligraphy and European Abstract Painting, 4th Forum East Asian Art History, Zurich, May 29-30
• 2014: The Buddhist Dimension of the Japanese Postwar Avant-Garde Calligraphy as a Factor of Its Internationalization, 18th Asian Studies Conference Japan, Tokyo, June 21-22
• 2014: Performing Abstract Art: Postwar Japanese Avant-garde Calligraphy and Euroamerican Action Painting, Japanese Art History Forum Graduate Student Panel, Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference, Philadelphia, March 27-30
• 2014: The Concept of Space in Japanese Postwar Avant-Garde Calligraphy: An Innovative Interpretation of the Bokujinkai Group, Japanese Art and Globalization Conference, UC Irvine, CA, January 31- February 1  
• 2013: Abstraction in motion: Dialogue between postwar Japanese avant-garde calligraphy and Euro-American action painting, 1st European Association of Japanese Studies Conference Japan, Kyoto, September 28-29
• 2013: Line as Identification Tool: Between Avant-Garde Calligraphy and Abstract Painting, Symposium “SEN. On Lines and Non-Lines”, Tokyo, September 19-21
• 2013: Theorizing Postwar Abstraction: Connecting Japanese Archaist Calligraphy and European Primitivist Painting within the Bokujinkai Calligraphy Group (video presentation), 17th Asian Studies Conference Japan, Tokyo, June 29-30
• 2012: Neudefinitionen der japanischen Kalligrafie: Reaktionen auf die Meiji-Restauration und auf den Zweiten Weltkrieg, 6. Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag, Zurich, August 28-30
• 2012: Bokujinkai Group: Agents who Negotiated Art Borders between Avant-Garde Calligraphy and Abstract Painting in Postwar Japan, 16th Asian Studies Conference Japan, Tokyo, June 30–July 1