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Maker(s):Kim, Ely
Culture:American (1983- )
Title:Sweaty American (reimagined work for Yōshū Chikanobu’s 'After the Bath', from the series 'Chiyoda, Inner Palace', 1895, gift of William Green, 2005.173)
Date Made:2016
Type:Photograph
Materials:digital print
Measurements:Sheet: 14 3/8 x 9 7/8"
Accession Number:  AC 2016.04
Credit Line:Purchase with Charles H. Morgan Fine Arts Fund
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Label Text:
Chikanobu’s Chiyoda Palace series sought to re-create the splendors of traditional court life at a time of rapid change and modernization in Japan. By inserting himself playfully into the original scene — a lady operating crank-handle fan apparatus — Kim links the contemporary artifice of the “selfie” with Chikanobu’s self-conscious depiction of the past, highlighting the constructed nature of both images. Surrounded with inexpensive Asian objects, the likes of which one might purchase in an urban Chinatown, he also playfully references the history of Japanese prints as popular and decorative commodities, which were considered “high art” only after their export to the West.

Tags:
decorations; nudes; text; women

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AC 2005.173
Yōshū Chikanobu; Fukuda Hatsujirō, publisher
After the Bath, from the series 'Chiyoda, Inner Palace' ('Chiyoda no ō-oku')
1895
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