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Project Associate Professor
The University Museum, The University of Tokyo
Yasutaka Tsuji is Project Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo. As a historian, he specializes in art and architecture after 1945. He was a visiting scholar at Columbia University, with a Japanese Government Fellowship from the Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2014–2015, and a research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 2014–2016.
His 2021 book, Nibiiro no Sengo: Geijutsu Undō to Tenji Kūkan no Rekishi [Postwar Japan as Dullness: A History of Art Movements and Exhibition Installations] led to numerous publications including “This is Your City: The Pop Future Foretold by Metabolism” in The Urbanism of Metabolism (Routledge, 2022). He has edited a special issue, ”Visuality and Materiality in Postwar Japan” of Review of Japanese Culture and Society, Vol 32, 2023.
Back to the Faculty ListProject Associate Professor
The University Museum, The University of Tokyo
Yasutaka Tsuji is Project Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo. As a historian, he specializes in art and architecture after 1945. He was a visiting scholar at Columbia University, with a Japanese Government Fellowship from the Agency for Cultural Affairs in 2014–2015, and a research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 2014–2016.
His 2021 book, Nibiiro no Sengo: Geijutsu Undō to Tenji Kūkan no Rekishi [Postwar Japan as Dullness: A History of Art Movements and Exhibition Installations] led to numerous publications including “This is Your City: The Pop Future Foretold by Metabolism” in The Urbanism of Metabolism (Routledge, 2022). He has edited a special issue, ”Visuality and Materiality in Postwar Japan” of Review of Japanese Culture and Society, Vol 32, 2023.