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Christine Guth

Independent Scholar
Art History

Christine Guth is an independent scholar who has taught Japanese art history at Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Stanford and Berkeley. Her publications focus on collecting and canon formation in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her current project builds on this foundation to explore the reception, appropriation, and transformation of a single Japanese woodcut that has become a global icon.

Project Summary

Popularly known as “The Great Wave,” Hokusai’s woodcut Under the Wave off Kanagawa is arguably the single most famous work of Japanese art outside of Japan. Guth's project in Beyond Influence: The Great Wave as a Global Icon is to elucidate the changing metaphorical readings that have given this image such widespread and lasting resonance.