Ukiyo-e between Pop Art and (Trans)cultural Appropriation: On the Art of Muhamed Kafedžić (Muha)

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  • Srđan Tunić
    Civil Association ARTIKAL, Belgrade, Serbia. Currently student at the University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia.
    Art historian, freelance art curator and cultural manager based in Belgrade, Serbia.
This article is based on a curatorial study of Muhamed Kafedžić’s oeuvre and our collaboration between 2012 and 2015. The work examines the paintings of the Sarajevo-based artist and questions the meaning and applicability of cultural appropriation theories to his work. The goal is to present a complex procedure of the appropriation of processes and styles in art history, usingin Kafedžić’s example of a hybrid of Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock printing (17th–19th centuries) and American pop art painting (20th century), predominantly in the style of Roy Lichtenstein. My intention is to emphasize how Muha’s artwork has an element of dislocation, or outside-ness, in both place and national tradition, which consequently develops into a trans-cultural perspective, using Japanese (pop) art as a trans-national networking point.
Published in Vol. 8 No. 1 (2017), 259-283
Date
2017-10-10
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.ts.2017.1.23706
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Ukiyo-e between Pop Art and (Trans)cultural Appropriation: On the Art of Muhamed Kafedžić (Muha). (2017). The Journal of Transcultural Studies, 8(1), 259-283. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.ts.2017.1.23706
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Section:
Reports from the Field
Keywords:
Ukiyo-e, pop art, Muha
Language:
en
Academic discipline and sub-disciplines:
Art History, Bosnian Art, Herzegovinian Art, Japanese Art, Transcultural Studies
Published in Vol. 8 No. 1 (2017), 259-283
Date
2017-10-10
DOI
https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.ts.2017.1.23706
URN
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Copyright (c) 2017 Srđan Tunić

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

 

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

     
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

     
  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
How to Cite
Ukiyo-e between Pop Art and (Trans)cultural Appropriation: On the Art of Muhamed Kafedžić (Muha). (2017). The Journal of Transcultural Studies, 8(1), 259-283. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.ts.2017.1.23706
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