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Name: KATO, Tetsuhiro

Date of Birth: 26th Apr. 1953
Professor at: the Department of Aesthetics, School of Humanities,
　　　　　　　　　　Kwansei Gakuin University
　　　　　　　　　　1-1-155 Uegahara, Nishinomiya, J-662-8501 JAPAN
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Field of Research: Aesthetics and Comparative Study of Art

Special Interests in:

• Hermeneutics of art, especially iconology as a method of art history.
• History of art history in the "Jahrhundertwende" in Germany.
• "Rezeptionsaesthetik", or the structural analysis of art experience.
• Anthropology of art: comparative study of 'art as institution'.
• Narrative painting, "Ut pictura poesis" theory, Continuative style in Painting.

Professional Affiliations:

• International Association for Aesthetics.
• The Japanese Society for Aesthetics.
• The Japan Art History Society.
• The Kyoto Philosophical Society.
• The Japan Society of Image Arts and Sciences
• Taisho Imagery Gakkai (Society for the Study of Imagery in Taisho Period)

Lectures in European Languages

• Japan Program, Konan University, Fall, 1997

Papers in European Languages.

1. "Enlightenment and Uncivilizedness in Aesthetics: Toward Reconstruction of History of Aesthetics from a Contemporary Viewpoint, Report of the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (c) (2) 2003 – 2005," (2006)
2. "Aesthetics and Art Studies in Modern Japan: Report of the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (c) (2) 1998 – 2001," (2002)
3. "Aby Warburg and the Anthropological Study of Art," (2001)
4. "E.F.Fenollosa and the Importation of Aesthetics into Japan," (1999).
5. "Crossing the Border: The Current Significance of Warburg's Iconology," (1995).
6. "The Concept of Nature in Hildebrand's Theory of Painting and Sculpture," (1993).
7. "Malerei und Narration: Uber den 'kontinuierenden' Erzahlstil der Malerei," (1992).
8. "The Gesture in Painting," (1990).
9. "Picture-Reading?: Gombrich and the Hermeneutics of Art," (1990).

List of published papers in Japanese

1. 2006 "Rumohr and The Essence of Cookery"
2. 2006 "Warburg and the Flemish Tapestry"
3. 2006 "A Thought from Higashiya: On Landscape"
4. 2005 "Flemish and Floretine Art in Early Renaissance"
5. 2005 "Eagle and Serpent: Wittkower and the Cosmological Ambition of Iconology"
6. 2004 "A Native American in Paris: The Role of Concrete Examples in Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment"
7. 2004 "Hamburger Facsimile Debate and Panofsky: Art Historical Study and Reproduction Technology"
8. 2004 "Rehabilitation of Reproduction: Over the Myth of Originality"
9. 2003 "On Warburg's Maxim: "Der liebe Gott steckt im Detail'"
10. 2003 "The Concept of 'Pathosformel' and Its Reception"
11. 2002 "YASHIRO Yukio and the Cultural Policy of Modern Japan"
12. 2002 "New Trends of Museum from Europe"
13. 2002 "Art History and Art Collection in the Time of Formation: The Case of Fiorillo"
14. 2001 "Warburg and the Problem of Human Body"
15. 2001 "Pathos and Its Interpretations in Art"
16. 2001 "Museum Curators as Researchers"
17. 2001 "OTSUKA Yasuji and the Art Studies in Modern Japan"
18. 2000 "Present and Future of Art Historical Web sites in Japan"
19. 2000 "Social Function of Aesthetics in Modern Japan: The Case of NISHI Amane"
20. 2000 "Warburg and Berenson: Jewish Character of Their Texts and Contexts"
21. 2000 "Art History as Institution and Its Objects of Research"
22. 2000 "Vienna Genesis and the Picture Reading"
23. 1999 "Memory of Image, and Its historical Function: On Warburg's Mnemosyne"
24. 1999 "Corporal Expressions in Western Art and the 'Aesthetics' of Warburg"
25. 1999 "Development of Art History"
26. 1999 "Art in Global Context and Its Intercultural Exchanges"
27. 1999 "The Study of Aesthetics and Art History in Modern Japan"
28. 1999 "Image and Text: Narrative Painting and the Problem of Interpretation"
29. 1999 "Overcoming the 'Crisis' of Art History"
30. 1998 "'Holbein Streit' and the Problem of Interpretation in Art History"
31. 1998 "Art Management"
32. 1997 "The Problem of Time in Aesthetic Recognition"
33. 1997 "Velazquez: Las Meninas"
34. 1997 "Toward Art outside the Modern World: Aby Warburg and the Comparative Study of Art"
35. 1996 "MNEMOSYNE: the Problem of Memory and Imagination in Warburg"
36. 1996 "Picture Reading: the 'Vienna Genesis'"
37. 1995 "Keywords to Understanding of Art Today"
38. 1995 "Temporarity of the Aesthetic: Gadamer and the Problem of Art-Reading"
39. 1993 "To the Intellectuall Art History"
40. 1993 "On Hildebrand's 'Problem of Form in the Plastic Arts'"
41. 1992 "An Unappreciated Iconology: Warburg and the Hermeneutics of Image"
42. 1992 "Picture Reading: The Case of Botticelli's 'Primavera'"
43. 1992 "W. Kemp and the Reception Aesthetics of Painting"
44. 1992 "'Crisis' and its Overcoming in Art History"
45. 1990 "Interpretation and Evaluation: From Gombrich's Viewpoint"
46. 1988 "Picture-Reading?: Gombrich and the Hermeneutics of Art"
47. 1988 "The Axiological Horizon of Reading Theory: Interpretation and Relativism"
48. 1987 "The Role of the Beholder: A Basic Theory for Pictorial Interpretation"
49. 1987 "Picture Reading: The Case of Vermeer's 'Model and Painter'"
50. 1987 "Overcoming the Aesthetic Consciousness: From Gadamer's Viewpoint"
51. 1985 "Art as 'promesse de bonheur': Benjamin and the Modernity"
52. 1985 "W.Iser's Theory of Reading"
53. 1984 "Over the 'Modern' in the Arts"
54. 1983 "Art as Mediation: Possibilities and Limits of Hermeneutical Aesthetics"
55. 1981 "The Problem of Art in Gadamer's Hermeneutics"
56. 1980 "H.-G.Gadamer's Philosophy of Art"

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