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Misha Lewinson presents "Chieko Takamura: A Psychoanalytic and Feminist Analysis"

Abstract Chieko Takamura is a Japanese woman who developed as an artist during the turn of the 20th century. She began her art career as a student at Nihon Joshi Daigaku, Japan Women’s University, studying figure drawing and Western art techniques. The University was one of the earliest institutions to foster and support progressive women as Japan experienced their first wave feminist movement. At the University, Hiratsuka Raicho was a “New Woman” advocate fighting for equality between the sexes. She and Takamura became fast friends. Raicho invited Takamura to design the front cover of the Seito Magazine, a publication dedicated to giving women space to create and write freely. During this time, Takamura switched her art style from figure drawing and oil painting to colorful paper cutouts. The art she creates exemplifies her love for life and nature and her vibrant personality. At 26 years old, Takamura married, and accounts of her life after marriage become dubious. The few written records known – letters and interviews from family members, friends, and neighbors – describe odd behavior from the young woman. Her husband, Kotaro Takamura paints a picture of their life together through poetry and prose composition detailing Chieko Takamura slowly losing herself to mental instability and psychosis. In 1931, diagnosed with symptoms of schizophrenia, she attempted suicide. In 1932, she stopped making art. In 1935, she was committed to a psychiatric hospital. Before she dies in 1938 at 52 years old, medical treatments helps her to regain her creativity and she creates paper cutouts of flowers, fruits, fish, and vegetables. With acknowledgment to the limited records of Chieko Takamura’s life, in this project I used psychoanalytic and feminist methodological lenses to analyze her work. Throughout Takamura’s oeuvre, her history, culture, and desires are intentionally expressed and shared as an extension of herself. Takamura’s story exemplifies the connection and interaction between the unconscious and art. With this research, I hope to demonstrate the use of poetry and creative prose as an avenue to investigate and interpret artwork. Biography Micaela “Misha” Lewinson is an artist and student at Kennesaw State University. She studied Architecture and Design before focusing her studies on Art History. Prior to attending Kennesaw State University, she explored four additional disciplines at Agnes Scott College: Studio Art, Women’s Studies, Queer Studies, and Cultural Anthropology. Her other areas of interest include Asian, Native American, and African Studies, Linguistic Anthropology, and Narrative Theory. Her research focuses on how art creates a narrative with limited use or without words, and how different cultures and experiences affect how stories are interpreted and understood. She has an interest in studying human culture and history as a dialogue and as a story.