Andrew Mark Watsky (born May 12, 1957) is an American
academic,
art historian
Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...
, author and university professor.
[Smithsonian Institution, Sackler-Freer Galleries]
Shimada Prize, 2006, Watsky bio notes
Early life
Watsky was awarded his bachelor's degree from
Oberlin College
Oberlin College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. It is the oldest Mixed-sex education, coeducational liberal arts college in the United S ...
and his master's degree and doctorate from
Princeton University.
Career
Watsky is a professor in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton; and he is director of graduate studies.
[Princeton University]
faculty bio notes
Previously, he was associate professor of Japanese and Chinese art history at
Vassar College.
In addition to his work with traditional Japanese art history, Watsky has an interest in recent Japanese art. This stems from an earlier career at a contemporary art gallery in Tokyo.
Selected works
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Andrew Watsky,
OCLC
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WorldCat encompasses roughly 2 works in 5 publications in 1 language and 300+ library holding.
* ''The Art of the Ensemble: the Tsukubusuma Sanctuary, 1570-1615'' (1994)
* ''Chikubushima: Deploying the Sacred Arts in Momoyama Japan'' (2004)
Honors
*
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
, 2007–2008.
*
Association for Asian Studies,
John Whitney Hall Book Prize, 2006.
*
Smithsonian Institution,
Sackler-
Freer Galleries Shimada Prize 2006.
[University of Washington Press]
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Notes
American art historians
American Japanologists
Living people
1957 births
Vassar College faculty
Oberlin College alumni
Princeton University alumni
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