is a

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in Sakyo-ku,

Kyoto, Kyoto Kyoto (; Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. , the cit ...

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. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1934. It was chartered as a junior college in 1977 and became a four-year college in 1991, known as the Kyoto University of Art and Design (京都造形芸術大学, ''Kyōto zōkei geijutsu daigaku''). The name of the university was changed to Kyoto University of the Arts in 2020. The university retains many distinguished visual and performing artists as regular faculty and guest lecturers. Since 2004, the university's International Research Center for the Arts (IRCA) has welcomed guest artists from the Americas, Europe, and Japan. In 2008, the postmodern critic

Akira Asada is a Japanese postmodern critic and curator, whose interests include contemporary arts, the history of social thought, and economic philosophy. He is currently the Dean of the Graduate School at the Kyoto University of Art and Design. Until Ma ...

was appointed as the director of the university's graduate school.

Departments and Faculties

Ningenkan, Kyoto University of Arts and Design 20100108

* Faculty of Art and Design ** Department of Fine and Applied Arts ** Department of

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** Department of Character Design ** Department of Information Design ** Department of Product Design ** Department of Spatial Design ** Department of Environmental Design ** Department of Film Production ** Department of Performing Arts ** Department of Creative Writing ** Department of Art Studies and Cultural Production ** Department of Art and Child Studies ** Department of Historical Heritage

References

External links

Official website
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