Allen Hockley
Associate Professor
Asian
Ph.D. University of Toronto, 1995
M.A. University of British Columbia
B.A. University of Victoria

allen.hockley@dartmouth.edu
tel: 646-3429
office: 304A Carpenter

Courses Taught at Dartmouth
Art History 60, The Arts of China
Art History 63, Sacred Art and Architecture of Japan
Art History 64, The Japanese Painting Tradition
Art History 65, Japanese Prints
Art History 66, The Camera in Nineteenth-century Asia
Art History 67, Contemporary Arts of Asia

Course Descriptions

In addition to these core courses, Allen Hockley offers at least one course per year in an area of his research interests. Examples include: Prints and Photographs of the Meiji Era; Heroes and Heroines in Japanese Popular Culture; Pilgrimage Travel and Tourism in Japanese Art

Special Interests
Japanese Art; Print Culture/Ukiyo-e; Photography

Selected Publications

•Public Spectacles and Personal Pleasures: Four Centuries of Japanese Prints From a Cincinnati Collection, Cincinnati: Cincinnati Museum of Art, 2006.

 •“Chikanobu’s Warrior Prints: New Heroes for a New Japan,” Chikanobu: Modernity and Nostalgia in Japanese Prints, Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing, 2006: 109-115.

 •“Expectation and Authenticity in Meiji Tourist Photography,” Challenging Past and Present: The Metamorphosis of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Art, edited by Ellen P. Conant, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2006: 114-132.

 •The Zenning of Shikô Munakata,” Impressions, (2004, no 26): 77-87.

 •“First Encounters – Emerging Stereotypes: Westerners and Geisha in the Late Nineteenth Century,” Peabody Essex Museum, Geisha: Beyond the Painted Smile, New York: George Braziller, (2004): 51-65.

•"Packaged Tours: Photo Albums and Their Implications for the Study of Early Japanese Photography,” Reflecting Truth: Photography in Nineteenth-Century Japan, edited by Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere and Mikiko Hirayama, Amsterdam: Hotei Publishing (2004): 66-85.

 •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.

 •“Cameras, Photographs, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century Japanese Prints,” Impressions, no. 23 (2001): 42-63.

 •“Shunga: Function, Context, Methodology,” Monumenta Nipponica, vol. 55, no. 2, (Summer 2000): 257-269.

Links

Japanese Prints at the Hood Museum of Art

Screens and Scrolls: Japanese Painting from the Ackland Museum of Art