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Hiroshi Yoshioka was born in Kyoto, and studied philosophy and aesthetics at Kyoto University. He teaches aesthetics and art theory at Kyoto University and IAMAS. He was the editor in chief of the journal Diatxt. (vol.1-8, Kyoto Art Center, 2000-2003) and Yorobon: Diatxt./Yamaguchi (YCAM, 2008), and the general director of Kyoto Biennale 2003 and Ogaki Biennale 2006.

He is the author of Shiso no genzaikei: Fukuzatsukei, dennokukan, afodansu (The Present Tense of Thought: Complex Systems, Cyberspace, and Affordance Theory, Kodansha, 1997) and Joho to seimei: No, kompyuta, uchu (Information and Life: The Brain, Computers, and the Universe, with Hisashi Muroi, Shin’yosha, 1993). He has also published translations of works such as Mark Poster’s The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Context, Bruce Mazlish’s The Fourth Discontinuity: The Co-Evolution of Humans and Machines, and Hal Foster’s The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture.

He maintains an online presence at the website: Space in Cyberspace, which includes electronic versions of some of his essays in English and Japanese.

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CV at: the Directory of Researchers on Kyoto University Databse.

　"Rembrandt's Workshop and Rembrandt as a Teacher", Exh.cat., Rembrandt, his Teachers and his Pupils, The Tokyo Shimbun, Tokyo, 1992, pp.27-45 (in Japanese), 199-209 (in English).
Rubens and his Workshop, The Flight of Lot and his Family from Sodom, coauthored with A.Balis et al.,The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 1994 (in English).
"On Rubens and Titian: From Imitation to Emulation", Studies in Aesthetics and Art History, 16-18, Department of Aesthetics and Art History, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 1995-1997, no.16, pp.57-91; no.17, pp.29-78; no.18, pp.35-75 (in Japanese).
"Marten de Voss 'The Last Supper' ", Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art, .27-28, Tokyo,1996, pp.13-19 (in Japanese and English).
"A Question of the Art Dealer Vachey: Reflections on the Position of Fakes in Art History", On Imaginaton, ed. K.Iwaki, Department of Aesthetics and Art History, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 1996, pp.131-147 (in Japanese).
"An Investigation of Rubens's 'The Hero(Tugendheld) Crowned by Victory and Drunken Hercules' ", Journal of the Japan Art History Society, 45/2, 1996, pp.138-157 (in Japanese).
Exh.cat., European Baroque Paintings from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art and the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, coauthored with M.Koshikawa, The Tokyo Shimbun, Tokyo, 1997(in Japanese and English).
"Art History and Connoisseurship: Reflections on the Attribution Problems of Paintings", Introduction to Studies of Arts, ed. T.Ota, The Sekaishisosha, Kyoto, 1999, pp.31-54 (in Japanese).
"A Study of 'The Horrors of War' by Rubens: The Story of Mars and Venus, its Allegorical Meanings and Iconographic Tradition", Studies in Western Art, 1, The Sangensha, Tokyo, pp.49-82(in Japanese).
"'Was dis door de beste meester in Holland geschildert?': A Consideration of Van Royen's Still-life of Flowers", Bijutsu Forum 21, 4, The Daigoshobo, Kyoto, 2001, pp.59-67 (in Japanese).
"Rubens's Representaions of 'Perseus and Andromeda': Allegory, Sculpture and Nature", From Text to Image: Relationship between Literature and Visual Arts, ed. Jo Yoshida, Kyoto University Press, Kyoto, 2002, pp.105-186 (in Japanese).
"Rubens's Travel to Spain in 1603 and his Two Paintings", Studies on Artists' Travels and their Meaning in the Development of Art, ed. Shigetoshi Osano, Department of Art History, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociologies, Tokyo University, Tokyo, 2002, pp.59-82, 168-171 (in Japanese).
"Rubens's Approach to Ancient Sculpture and his Relationship with Annibale Carracci", Studies in Western Art, 7, The Sangensha, Tokyo, 2002, pp.57-75 (in Japanese).
"Resta, Rubens, and van Diepenbeeck", Studies in Western Art, 8, The Sangensha, Tokyo, 2002, pp.177-182 (in Japanese).

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CV at: the Directory of Researchers on Kyoto University Databse.

Selection of Publications:
Books:
1. The challenge of Unkei : the Buddhist Sculptural genius at dawn of the medieval period, The Bun'eido, 1999, (multiple authors) (in Japanese)
2. The concise history of Japanese Buddhist sculpture, The Bijutsu Shuppansha, 2001, (multiple authors) (in Japanese)
3. The collections of fudamental resources. Japanese Buddhist sculptures with inscription in the Kamakura Period, 1－４, The Chuokoron Bijutsu Shuppansha, 2003－2006, (co-editors) (in Japanese)
4. The Preservation and Conservation of the Sculptures, The Shibundo,2004,(in Japanese)
5. Japanese Medival Buddhist Sculptors and Society－Unkei,the Kei School,and the Shichijo Busshi－,The Hanawa Shobo,2006, (in Japanese)

Articles:
1. Problems related to the production of the wooden sculpture of Hoto Kokushi at Kokokuji Temple, ARS BUDDHICA, 241, 1998, (in Japanese)
2. Views of the portraits of Chogen, Studies in Aesthetics and Art History, 20, The Department of Aesthetics and Art History ,Faculty of Kyoto University, 1999
3. Kochi and Enku,BIJUTSU FORUM 21, 1, 1999, (in Japanese)
4. The appearance of Buddhist sculptors called 'Sogo Busshi', Studies in Aesthetics and Art History, 21, 2000, (in Japanese)
5. Buddhist sculptors of 'Kofukuji Temple' during the Insei period, ARS BUDDHICA, 253, 2000, (in Japanese)
6. 'After Unkei, there was no more sculpture in Japan': the transmission of Unkei's fame, Studies in Aesthetics and Art History, 22, 2001, (in Japanese)
7. An essay on Kuninaka-no-Muraji-Kimimaro, Journal of the Study of Shosoin Documents, 8, 2002, (in Japanese)
8. Problems Related to Unkei's Two Titles, Kyoto Studies in Aesthetics and Art History, 2, 2003, (in Japanese)
9. The State of Research on the History of Ancient and Medieval Sculpture and Related Issues, ACTA ASIATICA, 85 ,2003(in English)
10.Tendency of Buddhist Sculptors in about the First Half of 10th Century, Kyoto Studies in Aesthetics and Art History, 4, 2005, (in Japanese)
11.A Reconsideration of Priest Portrait Sculpture :Focusing on Issues of Likeness and Idealization ,KOKKA,1321,2006, (in Japanese)

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• NAKADA, Asuka History of European art, landscape paintings in the Southern Netherlands
• OTA, Yoshitaka Theory of sensation by Gilles Deleuze, theory of media art
• KIM, Eun-ah Chinese Buddhist sculpture in the Tang period
• SEO, Nam-young Iconology of Buddhist sculpture
• TAKASHIMA, Megumi Theory of contemporary art
• TANAKA, Kenichi Japanese Buddhist sculpture in the Nara period
• JEONG Hyeona History of Modern Korean and Japanese art
• YAZU, Eriko History of Modern Japanese art, esp. "Bijin-ga"
• NISHIJIMA, Ami History of European art in the 18th Century France
• FUKADA, Yusuke Film studies and film production
• OZAKI, Keiko Study of the altar paintings in the 17th Century Spain, esp. of El Greco
• KURAMOCHI, Miki Study of paintings by Nicolas Poussin and his contemporaries
• RYU, Su-Jing History of Japanese Buddhist sculpture

• EJIRI, Ikuyo History of the Renaissance art
• KATO, Takafumi Study of Pragmatist aesthetics
• HAGIHARA, Saki History of Modern Japanese art, esp. Suzuki Ki-itsu
• NAKANO, Noriyuki History of Modern Japanese art, esp. Yokoyama Taikan
• KUSUMOTO, Ai
• KATO, Shohei
• TAKAHASHI, Sakiko
• NOMURA, Ayano

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