{"id":664,"date":"2024-03-31T02:42:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T02:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keithwhittle.org\/?page_id=664"},"modified":"2026-03-04T16:02:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T16:02:58","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/keithwhittle.org\/?page_id=664","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keith Whittle is a\u00a0<\/span>Fellow\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>at<\/span> Central Saint Martins<\/span><\/strong>, University of the Arts London and\u00a0<\/span>The Japan Foundation.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Specialising in modern and contemporary Japanese art history: Kindai Bijutsu (modern art in Japanese), Gendai Bijutsu (contemporary art in Japanese), and Kontenporariato (the English term contemporary art). Corresponding roughly to the general division of the prewar-wartime (1907\u201345), postwar (1945\u2013the 70s), and recent (1980s\u2013present) periods. <\/span><\/p>\n

Through an interdisciplinary and multifaceted approach, the research investigates Japanese pre- and post-war art history in relation to international art movements, analysing the modes of artistic expression that developed within Japan and its transnational communities across Asia, Europe, Latin America, and North America, as well as the aesthetic, cultural, and political contexts that have informed and shaped artistic practice.<\/p>\n

Research interests have expanded to encompass East and Southeast Asian and modern and contemporary art; artists in the international diaspora, performance art and the body in art; strategies and politics of curating \u2018East and Southeast Asian\u2019 art; twentieth-century modernity and post-modernity; colonialism and post-colonialism, visual culture and spectatorship, transnational art; criticism and curating; <\/span>geographic and pedagogic characteristics of the history of art.<\/p>\n

Further research is related to Bienalisation and developments in the art world through globalisation. Such as the emergence of global curatorial discourse, the vanishing boundaries between art and non-art categories, and contemporary art from the Global South such as from Africa, Asia, and Latin America.<\/span><\/p>\n

International in focus research is qualitative, descriptive and comparative, with a critical overview of the knowledge with out<\/span>comes that include:<\/span><\/p>\n

Exhibitions<\/strong>
\nNational and international touring exhibitions, commissioned and produced in partnership with galleries and cultural institutions.<\/p>\n

Exchange Residencies<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>
\nArt-based research residencies\u00a0aimed at researchers, artists, curators, writers.<\/p>\n

Conversations<\/span><\/strong>
\nResearch-related\u00a0<\/span>interviews<\/span>\u00a0with curators, artists and academics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Monographs\u2028<\/strong>
\nQualitative, descriptive, and comparative, research-based publications. A collating of and a critical overview of the knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n

Talks<\/span><\/strong>
\nE<\/span>xplore the structure and characteristics of art and culture, global and regional contexts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lectures<\/span><\/strong>
\nLectures on Modern and Contemporary Art at Sotheby\u2019s Institute of Art, London and other institutions focus on several interrelated themes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Symposia<\/span><\/strong>
\nInternational research\u00a0<\/span>gatherings<\/span>\u00a0working with specialists and scholars from various disciplines.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Catalogues<\/span><\/strong>
\nAn accompaniment to commissioning, exhibitions, projects and events.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keith Whittle is a\u00a0Fellow\u00a0at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London and\u00a0The Japan Foundation.\u00a0 Specialising in modern and contemporary Japanese art history: Kindai Bijutsu (modern art in Japanese), Gendai Bijutsu (contemporary art in Japanese), and Kontenporariato (the English term contemporary art). Corresponding roughly to the general division of the prewar-wartime (1907\u201345), postwar (1945\u2013the 70s),…<\/p>\nRead More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-664","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","col-md-4 col-sm-6"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithwhittle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithwhittle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithwhittle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithwhittle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keithwhittle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":71,"href":"https:\/\/keithwhittle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6048,"href":"https:\/\/keithwhittle.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/664\/revisions\/6048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keithwhittle.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}