Allen Hockley
Associate Professor
Appointments
Associate Professor of Art History
Area of Expertise
Japanese print culture 1600-1970,
Nineteenth-Century Photography in Asia,
Contemporary Art of Asia
Biography
Allen Hockley's research engages two fields of study: early Japanese photography and woodblock prints and illustrated books from the Tokugawa through early Showa periods. He teaches a broad array of courses on Japanese and Asian art including: Sacred Art and Architecture of Japan, The Japanese Painting Tradition, Japanese Architecture, Japanese Prints, Contemporary Art of Asia, Sacred Architecture of Asia, and Chinese Art. He offers advanced seminars on Colonial-era Photography in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
Education
B.A. University of Victoria
M.A. University of British Columbia
Ph.D. University of Toronto
Taught Courses
Publications
The Women of Shin Hanga: The Judith and Joseph Barker Collection of Japanese Prints, Hanover, NH: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2013
The Treaty of Portsmouth and Its Legacies, (co-edited with Steve Ericson) Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2008
Public Spectacles and Personal Pleasures: Four Centuries of Japanese Prints From a Cincinnati Collection, Cincinnati: Cincinnati Museum of Art, 2006.
The Prints of Isoda Koryûsai: Floating World Culture and Its Consumers in Eighteenth- Century Japan, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2003.
Inside the Floating World: Japanese Prints from the Lenoir C. Wright Collection, Greensboro, N.C.: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, 2002.
Essays
"What Do People See in The Tale of Genji.” in Murasaki Shikibu. The Tale of Genji: A New Translation Contexts and Criticisms. Translated and Edited by Dennis C. Washburn. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2021: 1251-1267.
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