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Yoshimasa Kaneko

Author

Yoshimasa Kaneko is Professor of Art Pedagogy at Kochi University, Japan. He studied art history and art pedagogy at Tsukuba University and at the graduate school of Joetsu University of Education. In 1996 he stayed in Berlin for six months as a fellow researcher of Japanese ministry of Education, to conduct research at Bauhaus-Archiv.

His research focuses on art education at the Bauhaus and the Itten-Schule, based on the original documents of Johannes Itten with a particular emphasis on art education through the activities of his German students and some Japanese people (students, teachers, visitors) related to the Itten-Schule.

 

His selected publications:

“A Study on the Lessons of ‘Japanese Picture’ at the Itten Schule”, in: Daigaku Bijutsukyoiku Gakkaishi, No.25, 1993 (in Japanese with English summary).

“A study on the accepting process of the formative education from the Ittenschule to Japan―Based on the achievements of Mrs. Mitsuko Yamamuro and Mrs. Kazuko Sasagawa”, in: Bijutsukyoikugaku, No.16, 1995 (in Japanese).

“A Study on the Art Educational Idea of the Bauhaus. The Concept of Polarity and Contrast Thinking”, in: Isao Toshimitsu, Hisao Miyajima, Hiroyuki Sadakane (eds.), Bauhaus and it’s around I. Art Design Politics Education, A Collection of academic papers on Bauhaus, Extra Edition No.1 of Bauhaus-Bücher (Japanese translation version of Bauhaus Books), Chuokouronbijutsu-Shuppan, Tokyo 1996 (in Japanese).

“A Study on the Educational Relationship between Johannes Itten and some Japanese People―With a Special Reference to the Activities of Shounan Mizukoshi and Kuniyoshi Obara”, in: Daigaku Bijutsukyoiku Gakkaishi, No.32, 2000 (in Japanese with English summary).

“A Study on the Art Education of Yumeji Takehisa at the Ittenschule”, in: Daigaku Bijutsukyoiku Gakkaishi, No.33, 2001 (in Japanese with English summary).