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Image Studies Lab
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The lab reads the images of photography and art through history.
AboutAbout the lab
Thinking about images in photography and art through history and time.
The Image Studies Lab (Madoka Yuki) studies images in photography and contemporary art, drawing on the history and theory of photography and on visual culture studies.
Its themes include otherness, global art, representations of death, and temporality.
The lab also carries out art intervention projects at a university museum.
The professor teaches courses in the Future Design Course of the School of Design, among others, and supervises graduation theses, master's research, and doctoral research.
Key terms
- Art intervention
- An exhibition approach in which exhibits shaped by an artistic perspective are shown in natural history museums, turning the museum into a place that connects science, art, and society
- Vanitas
- A theme expressing the fragility and transience of life, known as a conventional motif in 17th-century Dutch painting
ResearchResearch themes
From the standpoint of image studies, the lab works on themes such as the history and theory of photography, otherness, global art, representations of death, and temporality. It also pursues exhibition practice at a university museum and research on views of life and death as expressed in art.
*Illustrative imageArt Intervention at a University Museum
This research brings the perspectives of art history and art studies into a university museum that has centered on the natural sciences. Using the Kyushu University Museum as an example, it explores how to recognize the value of academic specimens and make it visible through exhibition.
*Illustrative imageViews of Life and Death in Modern and Contemporary Art
As a member of a joint research project, the lab examines how the fragility of life and the idea of its end are expressed in artworks from Europe, the United States, and Japan. Using vanitas paintings and similar works as clues, it explores the similarities and differences between the West and Japan.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorMadoka Yuki
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Boulevard du Temple by Daguerre” Louis Daguerre / Public domain (cropped)
- Art Intervention at a University Museum: “Ancient History Museum Display Case ( )” Gary Todd from Xinzheng, China / CC0 (cropped)
- Views of Life and Death in Modern and Contemporary Art: “Jan Davidsz de Heem - Memento Mori with Flowers” Jan Davidsz. de Heem / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Image Studies Lab): “Adams The Tetons and the Snake River” Ansel Adams / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Cultural Heritage Studies Lab): “St Mary's church, Puddletown - the restoration of the Athelhampton Chantry (2) - geograph.org.uk - 3258652” Mike Searle / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Cultural Heritage Studies Lab): “North Nave of the Church of Saint Paulinus, Crayford (Stained-Glass Window - 01)” Doyle of London / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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