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Brooks, Kit

Former Staff

Geographic Focus

Publications

Selected Publications

  • Article

    • Brooks, Kit. 2022. "A Cherry on Top: Hamaguchi Yōzō's e. e. cummings suite." On Paper: Journal of the Washington Print Club, 1, (12) 6–10. 2022
    • Brooks, Kit. 2021. "And the bird's beak became a bird: Watanabe Seitei's Pigeons at Senso-ji." Impressions, 42, (1) 148–167. 2021
    • Brooks, Kit. 2021. "Grappling With Tradition: Ay-O's Sumo Wrestling and Mount Fuji Eruption." On Paper: Journal of the Washington Print Club, vol. 1, (11), 15–18. 2021
    • Brooks, Kit. 2021. "Watanabe Seitei's Pigeons in a Temple Ground." On Paper: Journal of the Washington Print Club, 1, (10), 9–12. 2021
    • Brooks, Kit. 2015. "A School Unto Himself? The Formation of Soga Shōhaku (1730–1781)." Orientations, 46, (6) 104–112. 2015
    • Brooks, Kit. 2015. "The Spectre of History: A Study of Yoshitoshi's Fujiwara no Yasumasa Playing the Flute by Moonlight (1882)." Orientations, 46, (3) 50–60. 2015
    • Brooks, Kit. 2014. "Haabaado Daigaku no surimono: Aasaa B Dueru no korekushon ni kanshite." Ota Memorial Museum of Art Journal, 5 67–82. 2014
  • Book

    • Brooks, Kit and Schenkenberg, Tamara H. 2017. Living Proof: Drawing in 19th Century Japan [Exhibition catalog] St. Louis, Missouri: Pulitzer Arts Foundation. 2017
  • Thesis

    • Brooks, Kit. 2017. "Something Rubbed: Medium, Texture, and History in Japanese Surimono." PhD, Harvard University. 2017

Presentations

  • Presentation

    • Brooks, Kit. 2022. Art Talk with Smithsonian Curators [presentation]. April 22, 2022. Virtual, Zoom: Japan Information and Culture Center, JICC.
    • Brooks, Kit. 2019. Blending into the Woodwork: Stylistic Sources for Hiroshige's Famous Views of the Sixty-Odd Provinces [presentation]. Worcester Museum of Art Great Master Series, April 21, 2019. Worcester, Massachusetts.
    • Brooks, Kit. 2022. Burning with Desire: Depictions of Yaoya Oshichi [presentation]. February 1, 2022. Mitchell Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis.
    • Brooks, Kit. 2022. Charles Lang Freer: A Legacy of Taste [presentation]. June 11, 2022. Gardner Center Saturday University Series. Asian Art Museum, Seattle, Washington: Mitchell Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland.
    • Brooks, Kit. 2021. Conversation with CCL/Mellon Seminar Alumni [presentation]. CCL/Mellon Foundation 2021 Seminar in Curatorial Practice, July 29, 2021.
    • Brooks, Kit. 2021. Horrible Histories: Utagawa Kuniyoshi and Tsukioka Yoshitoshi [presentation]. September 28, 2021. University of Melbourne (via Zoom).
    • Brooks, Kit. 2014. Texture and Meaning: Still Life Surimono of the Early 19th Century [presentation]. 2nd International Mokuhanga Conference, September 14, 2014. Tokyo.
    • Brooks, Kit. 2014. The Formation of Soga Shōhaku [presentation]. Feinberg Collection Study Day, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 17, 2014. New York.
    • Brooks, Kit. 2012. The Social Lives of the Harvard Buddha Hand [presentation]. Graduate Symposium on Buddhist art at the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, February 2–3, 2012. St. Louis, Missouri.
    • Brooks, Kit. 2022. Treasured Textures: Japanese Still Life Surimono as Artefacts of 18th-Century Treasure Gatherings [presentation]. Networks and Practices of Connoisseurship in the Global Eighteenth Century, June 4, 2022. Hamburg, Germany: Warburg-Haus.
    • Brooks, Kit. 2022. Twisted and Tormented: Exhibiting yōkai and yūrei [presentation]. April 13, 2022. Virtual, Zoom: Occidental College, California.
    • Brooks, Kit. 2022. Twisted and Tormented: Exhibiting yōkai and yūrei [presentation]. September 18, 2022. Zoom: University of Melbourne.
    • Brooks, Kit. 2022. Twisted and Tormented: Exhibiting yōkai and yūrei [presentation]. September 20, 2022. Zoom: MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art).
    • Brooks, Kit. 2021. Under the light of the moon: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi and the transformation of warrior imagery [presentation]. March 18, 2021. Art Gallery of South Australia The University of Melbourne: Samurai Transformed symposium: Mitchell Gallery, St. John's College, Annapolis.
    • Brooks, Kit. 2015. Western Appreciation of Surimono in the Early Twentieth Century: Totoya Hokkei [presentation]. 96th meeting of the International Ukiyo-e Society, August 8, 2015. Tokyo.

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