QUITMAN EUGENE PHILLIPS: CURRICULUM VITAE
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Art History
232 Elvehjem Museum of Art
800 University Ave.
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 263-2289
Fax: (608) 265-6425
[email protected]
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
04030199-00
98-04
92-98
91-92
Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Affiliate, Religious Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Chair, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Visiting Scholar, Kyoto National University
Associate Professor of Japanese Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Assistant Professor of Japanese Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lecturer on Japanese Art (as Graduate Student Instructor), University of California
at Berkeley
EDUCATION
1992
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Department of History of Art. Dissertation
topic: “The Early Kano School and Yamato-e.”
88-89 Visiting Graduate Research Student at the University of Tokyo.
1986 M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Department of History of Art.
1974 B.A. Magna Cum Laude, Harvard University, Department of English and American
Languages and Literature.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS SINCE PH.D.
2003
2001
99-00
1999
1998
95-96
95-96
95-96
1995
1994
1994
1994
U.W. Madison Graduate School Summer Research Support (1 month)
U.W. Madison Graduate School Summer Research Support (1 month)
Japan Foundation Fellowship (12 months)
Graduate School Research Committee Summer Salary Support (1 month)
Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies Travel Grant (2 Weeks in Japan)
U.W. Madison Institute for Research in the Humanities Fellow (1 Semester)
U.W. Madison Graduate School Research Support (1 Semester)
ACLS Fellowship Alternate
Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies Travel Grant (2 weeks in Japan)
Japan Foundation Research Grant (Summer)
Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies Travel Grant (declined)
Graduate School Research Committee Summer Salary Support (not needed)
CURRENT PROJECTS
Editor and chapter author. The History of Japanese Art. Vol. 2. Early Modern, 1500-1868.
Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2006. (Under contract.)
Q. E. Phillips: C.V./page 2
“The Material Culture of Gyakushu [Pre-emptive mortuary rites].” Submitted as a chapter in
What's the Use of Art: Situating Asian “Art Objects” in Ritual, Performance, and the
Everyday. (Under consideration.)
“Mirrors in Japanese Religious Art.” Submitted for publication.
Art and Salvation in Japan, 1400-1600. Manuscript in progress.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Practices of Painting in Japan, 1475-1500. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2000.
Articles and Book Chapters
“Saving the Elite: the Jōfukuji Version of the Ten Kings.” Ars Orientalis 33 (2003):
121-145.
“Afterward.” In Classicism in the Early Edo Period, edited by Elizabeth Lillehoj. Honolulu:
University of Hawaii Press, 2004.
“Daoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism: The Art of Early China and Korea,” “Sacred
Statues and Secular Scrolls: The Art of Early Japan,” “Incursion, Restoration, and
Transformation: The Art of Later China and Korea,” and “From the Shoguns to the
Present: The Art of Later Japan.” Chaps. 7, 8, 26, and 27 in Gardner's Art Through the
Ages. Fort Worth: Harcourt College Publishers, 2001. Contributing author.
“The Price Shuten Dōji Screens: A Study of Visual Narrative.” Ars Orientalis 26 (1996): 121.
“Portraiture in Japan from 1475-1525.” Japan Foundation Newsletter 22.4 (Dec. 1994): 1619.
“Honchō gashi and the Kano Myth.” Archives of Asian Art 47 (1994): 46-57.
“Reading Utamaro's Print Unaccomplished.” Elvehjem Museum of Art Bulletin, 1991-93,
pp. 61-68.
“Kanō Tsunenobu,” “Tosa School,” “Tosa Mitsumochi,” and “Tosa Mitsuoki.” The
McMillan Dictionary of Art, total 15 ms. pages.
“The Kanō School and Yamato-e in the Bunroku, Keichō, and Genna Eras.” Proceedings of
the International Conference of Orientalists in Japan, 1990, pp. 83-95.
Translations
(With Karen M. Gerhart) The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, ed. The Kohō-an Inoue
Collection. The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, 1990.
Book Reviews
“Melinda Takeuchi, ed., The Artist as Professional in Japan.” Monumenta Nipponica,
forthcoming.
“Brenda Jordan and Victoria Weston, ed., Copying from the Master and Stealing His
Secrets.” Monumenta Nipponica, 2003.
Q. E. Phillips: C.V./page 3
“Timon Screech, Sex and the Floating World.” CAA.Reviews. 2000
“Kendall H. Brown. The Politics of Reclusion: Painting and Power in Momoyama Japan.”
Ars Orientalis 28 (1998).
“Stephen Addiss, Tall Mountains and Flowing Waters: The Arts of Uragami Gyokudō.”
Journal of the American Oriental Society 110.2 (1990).
SCHOLARLY PAPERS
“The Material Culture of Gyakushu.” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies.
March 2004.
“Aspects of Pictorial Narration in Japan.” Presentation for “Reading: Ethics, Images, and Social
Practices,” a symposium at the University of Wisconsin, Nov. 7-9, 2003.
Discussant for “Image/Object: On the Materiality of the Image in East Asian Visual Culture;
Session II: Materiality of the Secular Image.” University of Chicago. April 2003.
“Judgment in the Afterlife.” Presentation for “Imagining the Afterlife,” a Mellon Workshop
sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin. Oct. 2002.
“Mirrors of Action.” New England East Asian Art History Seminar. Oct. 2002.
“Saving the Elite: The Jōfukuji Version of the Ten Kings.” Reischauer Institute of Japanese
Studies, Harvard University. Oct. 2002.
“Narrating the Salvation of the Elite: The Jōfukuji Paintings of the Ten Kings.” Univ. of
Wisconsin, Department of Art History Colloquium, Oct. 2000.
“Ritual Art and the Salvation of the Masses and the Elite.” Kyoto University, Department of
Aesthetics and Art History Colloquium, Kyoto, Japan, Dec. 1999. (In Japanese)
“Narrating the Salvation of the Elite: the Jōfukuji Paintings of the Ten Kings.” The
International Conference of Orientalists in Japan, Tokyo, May 2000. (In Japanese)
“The Practice of Japanese Art History in the United States.” Kyoto University, Department
of Aesthetics and Art History Colloquium, Kyoto, Japan, Dec. 1999. (In Japanese)
Discussant for the Conference, “Classicism in Japanese Art of the Early Edo Period.” The
Inaugural Sanwa Symposium, Visalia, California, June 1999.
“Art Production and Consumption as Social Practice.” On the panel, “Paradigms in Japanese
Art History, Part I.” Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.,
March 1998.
Chair of the panel, “Paradigms in Japanese Art History, Part I.” Association of Asian
Studies, Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C, March 1998.
“Bourdieu's Theory of Practice.” Art History Department Colloquium, Nov. 1996.
“Contending Masculinities and Feminine Images in Ukiyo-e.” International Conference,
“Images of Women in Japanese Culture,” Chicago, Oct. 1995.
“The Practices of Portraiture in Japan, 1475-1525.” Institute for Research in the Humanities,
U.W. Madison, Oct. 1995.
“Issues in the Study of Pictorial Narration.” University of Wisconsin, Department of Art
History Colloquium, Nov. 1994.
“Classicism and the Early Kano and Tosa Painters.” On the panel, “Redefining Classicism in
the Art of Early Modern Japan.” Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Los
Angeles, March 1993.
Q. E. Phillips: C.V./page 4
“Honchō gashi and the Shaping of Japanese Painting History.” On the panel, “Terms of
Engagement: Re-Phrasing Japanese Art History.” College Art Association Annual
Meeting, Feb., 1992, Chicago.
“The Kano School and Yamato-e in the Bunroku, Keichō, and Genna Eras.” The
International Conference of Orientalists in Japan, Tokyo, May 1990. (In Japanese)
“Kano Shuten Dōji Paintings: The Transformation from Handscrolls to Screens.” The
Association for Research on Ancient and Medieval Japanese Paintings, Tokyo, Japan,
Feb. 1990. (In Japanese)
“Chinese Poets and Poetics in the Painting of Yosa Buson.” On the panel, “Yosa Buson
(1716-83): Image, Meaning, Context.” Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting,
March 1988.
“The Narrative Structure of the Shuten Dōji Screens in the Shin'enkan Collection.” JapanAmerican Art History Workshop for Junior Scholars, Tokyo, March 1987. (In
Japanese)
LECTURES
“Dan/Jo Man/Woman, Love and Distain. The Ruth & Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art
at the Clark Center, Hanford, CA. May, 2004.
“The Mirror in Japanese Religion.” University of Wisconsin, LOGOS, November, 2003.
“Representations of Kabuki in Woodblock Prints.” University of Wisconsin, Elvehjem
Museum of Art, May 2003.
“Techniques of Japanese Pictorial Narration.” The Ruth & Sherman Lee Institute for
Japanese Art at the Clark Center, Hanford, CA. Sept. 2002.
“Visions of the Afterlife in Japanese Art.” Members Lecture at the Ruth & Sherman Lee
Institute for Japanese Art at the Clark Center, Hanford, CA. Sept. 2002.
“Symbol and Surface: Painting and Craft Decoration in Edo, Japan.” University of
Wisconsin, Elvehjem Museum of Art. Oct. 2001.
“Tea Houses in the Seventeenth Century.” The Wakamatsu Society, San Francisco, CA.
March 1989.
“Kōetsu's Craft and the Art of Rimpa Painting.” The Wakamatsu Society, San Francisco,
CA. April 1987.
EXHIBITIONS
Kabuki: the Drama of Japanese Prints. Co-curator with Andrew Stevens. University of
Wisconsin, Elvehjem Museum of Art. Spring 2003
Paper Women. Curated with graduate seminar students and Andrew Stevens. University
of Wisconsin, Elvehjem Museum of Art. Fall 1995
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Organizer of “Imagining the Afterlife,” a Mellon Workshop sponsored by the Center for the
Humanities at the University of Wisconsin.
Q. E. Phillips: C.V./page 5
Manuscript reviewer for Art Bulletin, Monumenta Nipponica, Journal of Japanese Studies,
University of Hawai'i Press, University of Washington Press, and the Asia Center at
Harvard.
Outside examiner for the Swarthmore Honors Program, 1994, 1998, 2001, and 2002.
SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY
Review Committee for the Institute for Research in the Humanities.
Search Committee for East Asia specialist in the History Department.
Search Committee for Japan specialist in the History Department.
Search Committee for East Asian Bibliographer for the Library. (Twice)
Search Committee for Visual Culture Cluster Hire. (Two Years)
Elvehjem Museum of Art Council (Four-year Commitment)
Executive Committee of the Faculty Division of the Arts and Humanities (04-07)
SERVICE TO THE FIELD
00- Clark Center for Japanese Art, Education Committee
00-01 Chair, Japanese Art History Forum Website Planning Committee
97-99 Elected Member, Japanese Art History Forum Steering Committee
96-99 Moderator, Japanese Art History Forum (JAHF) Internet List