Name: Asian Artists in 1920s–1940s Paris: Japanese Engagement under the French Colonial Empire
Start: 2026-02-24T18:00:00+09:00
End: 2026-02-24T19:30:00+09:00
Location: École française d'Extrême-Orient - EFEO Kyoto

$Asian Artists in 1920s\u20131940s Paris: Japanese Engagement under the French Colonial Empire$

KYOTO LECTURES 2026
Asian Artists in 1920s–1940s Paris:
Japanese Engagement under the French Colonial Empire
Speaker: INAGA Shigemi
Tuesday, February 24th, 18:00 (JST)

This lecture is related to the groundbreaking exhibition, City of Others: Asian Artists in Paris, 1920s–1940s, which was held at the National Gallery Singapore in 2025. The talk will focus on Japanese artists in relation to other Asians active in the French capital during the Art Déco period (1925) and the Exposition coloniale (1931). It will address questions such as: What challenges did they face to cope with the Parisian art market at the margins of the École de Paris? What was their destiny? How and why was Léonard Foujita, for example, singled out among his compatriots?
Inaga Shigemi is professor emeritus at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies and the Graduate University for Advanced studies. His main publications include Le Crépuscule de la peinture (1997), L’Orient de la peinture (1999), Painting on the Edge (2014), and In Search of the Haptic Plasticity (2024).

This hybrid lecture will be held on site (Registration required) and via Zoom.
Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84071262659
Meeting ID: 84071262659

Registration required: https://forms.gle/FpbQp6bEixWuCMe1A
Venue: EFEO Kyoto, 29 Kitashirakawa Bettō-chō, Sakyō-ku, Kyoto 606-8276
(You can find the place on Google Maps with the words 'EFEO Kyoto')
Poster download:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QMI4pERHGyCUpOfaVt-cwwXHSCAufLL4/view?usp=sharing

École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO)
Italian School of East Asian Studies (ISEAS)
Co-hosted by Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University