John Max Rosenfield (October 9, 1924 – December 16, 2013)
was an American
art historian, with a specialization in
Japanese art.
He began teaching at
Harvard University
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in 1968, and was later the
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
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Professor of
East Asian Art East Asian art includes:
*Chinese art
*Japanese art
Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including Jōmon pottery, ancient pottery, Japanese sculpture, sculpture, Ink wash painting, ink painting and Japanese calligraphy, cal ...
, ''Emeritus''
["Rosenfield to be awarded Banto Prize in March." ''Harvard University Gazette.'' 8 February 2001.] and Curator of Oriental Art at Harvard's
Fogg Art Museum
The Harvard Art Museums are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: the Fogg Museum (established in 1895), the Busch-Reisinger Museum (established in 1903), and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (established in 1985), and four research ...
.
In March, 2001, he was awarded the 19th Yamagata Banto prize for his contributions in spreading
Japanese culture outside
Japan.
[
He graduated from ]University of California, Berkeley
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, Southern Methodist University
, mottoeng = "The truth will make you free"
, established =
, type = Private research university
, accreditation = SACS
, academic_affiliations =
, religious_affiliation = United Methodist Church
, president = R. Gerald Turner
, ...
, University of Iowa
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, and Harvard University
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.
Literary works
* Rosenfield, John M. ''Dynastic arts of the Kushans.'' 1967. (1993 )
* Rosenfield, John M. ''Japanese Arts of the Heian Period
The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185. It followed the Nara period, beginning when the 50th emperor, Emperor Kanmu, moved the capital of Japan to Heian-kyō (modern Kyoto). means "peace" in Japanese ...
, 794-1185.'' Asian Society, 1967.
* Rosenfield, John M. and Shujiro Shimada. ''Traditions of Japanese Art : Selections from the Kimiko and John Powers Collection.'' Harvard University Press, 1970. ()
* Rosenfield, John M. ''The courtly tradition in Japanese art and literature: selections from Hofer and Hyde collections.'' Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1973.
* Rosenfield, John M. and Elizabeth Ten Grotenhuis. ''Journey of the Three Jewels: Japanese Buddhist Paintings from Western Collections.'' Tuttle Publishing, 1979. ()
* Rosenfield, John M. ''et al.'' eds. ''Extraordinary Persons : Works by Eccentric, Non-Conformist Japanese Artists of the Early Modern Era (1580-1868) in the collection of Kimiko & John Powers.'' 3 vols. Harvard University Press, 1998. ()
* Rosenfield, John M. and Buson Yosa. ''Mynah Birds and Flying Rocks: Word and Image in the Art of Yosa Buson'' (Franklin D. Murphy Lectures, XVIII). Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 2004. ()
* Rosenfield, John M. ''Portraits of Chōgen: The Transformation of Buddhist Art in Early Medieval Japan.'' Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, 2011.
* Rosenfield, John M. ''Preserving the Dharma: Hōzan Tankai and Japanese Buddhist Art of the Early Modern Era.'' Princeton University Press, 2016. ()
References
American art historians
American Japanologists
American male non-fiction writers
Harvard University faculty
1924 births
2013 deaths
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Southern Methodist University alumni
University of Iowa alumni
Harvard University alumni
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