Research of History of Japanese Modern Art and Newspaper Article

Abstract

The author has been considering the importance of the newspaper article as a staff in the museum of modern art or a researcher of the history of Japanese modern art. This paper draws attention to some cases with the investigation of the newspaper article related to the art, and especially three cases that the author has tried up to now. 1. practical use of the newspaper clipping scrapbook kept by the Ishibashi Museum of Art, 2. Research of Hakubakai group and the newspaper article, 3. A modern art of Yanagawa, Fukuoka Prefecture appeared to The Yanagawa Shinpo newspaper. This paper, thus, explores the profit and the necessity of the investigation of the newspaper article by the project.