A Contested Canvas: War Paintings, Fake Reconciliation, and Memory Politics in Post WWII US-Japan Relations

• In Event: Aesthetics and Human Rights

Brief Overview

Via the case of returned Japanese war paintings from the US, the paper offers a Dual-structure model of reconciliation. It argues that high Internal Thresholds enable states to maneuver art's dual nature, forging an opportunistic Fake Reconciliation.

Author

• Ran Peng, Peking University