Last Updated: 2025年10月15日
Art and Culture Theory Courses are configured from an arts and culture environment system and content-based arts and culture. Research is conducted on fine art (painting), literature, performing arts (music, opera, theater), and fashion art and how they are related to society.
In content-based arts and culture, social awareness and the worldview as reflected through analysis of artwork are considered. In the arts and culture environment system, arts management connects the arts and society examining and the grand design of cultural policies, considering factors such as the right of easy access to art and actual cultural facility management from an international perspective.
In this course, we welcome candidate students, regardless of their undergraduate major, who are interested in art and supporting its environment as well as those who are keen to undertake specialist learning.
| Students’ research themes | Master’s program:
Local community,
Public theater organizational management,
Network formation between non-profit organizations,
Community art,
Art project in sojin area Social and Cultural Center in Berlin,
Civic activities and cultural policy in Sweden,
Protection and application of cultural heritages: historic sites of France and China,
City space improvement in Paris,
Congolese Diaspora in Belgium,
Indie bands of Japan and Korea,
Church building during the Russian Imperial Period,
Japonism,
Tadamasa Hayashi,
French Impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte,
French Women Writer, Japanese avant-garde calligraphy and abstract expressionism painting,
Women and modes in France,
Japanese Street Fashion. Doctoral program:
Cultural Policy and social inclusion,
Modern advertising in Japan,
Daumier and the modern city of Paris,
Acceptance of modern French music in prewar Japan,
Formation of Japanese ceramics collections in France and the trade between Japan and France,
Kenji Miyazawa and the optics,
Cultural policy in Singapore. |
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| Teaching staff | Keiko ISHIDA, Professor
Subjects: Art Theory
Research fields: Aesthetics and art theory. I conduct studies under such themes as the relations between art and politics in modern times and the artistic communication with others. I am also interested in recent trends in art that attempt to engage with social and political issues. Yusuke ISOTANI, Lecturer
Subjects: Art in Contemporary Society
Research Fields: History of modern art, history of photography. I particularly work on photography in France between the two World Wars and its relationship to the contemporary changes in art, graphic design, and publishing industry. I am also interested in the roles played by art history, art museums, and libraries in the formation of photo history. Yoshiko OKAMOTO, Associate Professor
Subjects: Modernism in Art
Research fields: My main interest is theater studies, particularly Central and Eastern European operas and dramas at the turn of the twentieth century. I am currently analyzing Hungarian music theater works and the process of changes and expansion of their performances. Eisuke TAKADA, Lecturer
Subjects: Contemporary Cultural Policy
Research fields: I specialize in the 19th-century Russian writer and playwright Chekhov. My research focuses on the relationship between literature and science, and the problems confronting humanity. I am also interested in contemporary Russian literature. Shuntaro YOSHIDA, Lecturer
Subjects: Modern and Contemporary Art Studies
Research fields: My field of study is choreography and contemporary dance in the performing arts. In particular, I research choreographic theories from the 20th century onwards, examining the creative process, the artistic production and co-creative practices. In my classes, I not only teach theoretical perspectives but also the aspects of artistic practices that connect society and the arts fostering an understanding of artistic production and management. |
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