SHIMIZU Minoru
Faculty of Global and Regional Studies Department of Global and Regional Studies
Professor
Last Updated :2025/05/24

Researcher Profile and Settings

Research Interests

  • Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Thomas Ruff
  • Gerhard Richter
  • Wolfgang Tillmans
  • Ceramic Art, Pottery
  • 森山大道
  • リヒター
  • シュトックハウゼン
  • 電子音楽
  • 写真論
  • Daido Moriyama
  • Richter
  • Stockhausen
  • Electro-acoustic music
  • Photography

Research Areas

  • Humanities & social sciences / Aesthetic practices / History of ceramic art
  • Humanities & social sciences / Art history
  • Humanities & social sciences / Aesthetics and art studies
  • Humanities & social sciences / Literature - European

Education

  • The University of Tokyo, 人文科学研究科, 独語独文学専攻, - 1992
  • The University of Tokyo, Graduate School, Division of Humanities, - 1992
  • The University of Tokyo, 人文科学研究科, 独語独文学専攻, - 1988
  • The University of Tokyo, Graduate School, Division of Humanities, - 1988
  • The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Letters, ドイツ語ドイツ文学科, - 1986
  • The University of Tokyo, Faculty of Literature, - 1986

Degree

  • Master of Literature, The University of Tokyo

Association Memberships

  • 日本独文学会

Awards

  • 重森弘淹写真評論賞
    1995, 東京綜合写真専門学校, Japan

Published Papers

  • Mirrors of Birkenau. Gerhard Richter's "Birkenau"-series
    清水 穣
    Eureka, (6月), May 2022
  • イクイヴァレント2017 — 安村崇「1/1」によるスティーグリッツの再解釈
    清水 穣
    安村崇『1/1』(OSIRIS), Dec. 2017
  • Post-Provoke et Post-Conpora — La Photographie Japonaise depuis les Année 1970
    SHIMIZU Minoru
    Japanorama – Nouveau regard sur la création contemporaine, Oct. 2017, Symposium
  • Beyond the Strip and Standing Panes. A New Restart of Gerhard Richter's Abstract Painting
    SHIMIZU Minoru
    Gerhard RIchter Wako Works of Art, Nov. 2015
  • Impact of the "PIKA"
    清水 穣
    Censure, Autocensure et Tabous” Editions Philippe-Picquer, Oct. 2010, Symposium
  • Impacts of 'PIKA'. A case study in Hiroshima
    Editions Philippe-Picquer, Censure, Autocensure et Tabous, 2010, Scientific journal
  • コラージュとプレゼントネス― スティーヴン・ショアとマイケル・フリード
    清水 穣
    青弓社『写真空間4』, 2010
  • Series, formula and media. Stockhausen's Helicopter-string quartet
    Intercommunication, 64, 2008
  • セリー、フォルメル、メディア ― シュトックハウゼンの『ヘリコプター弦楽四重奏曲』
    清水 穣
    NTT出版Intercommunication, 64, 2008
  • 眼と被写体 柳宗悦・土門拳・青山二郎
    清水 穣
    青弓社『写真空間』, 1, 2008
  • Begegnung mit dem Japanischen durch die europäische Avantgarde: Minao Shibata
    SHIMIZU Minoru
    Musik und Verstehen (Laaber), Oct. 2005
  • On the Color of Musical Tone. Contexts to Itten und Hauer
    SHIMIZU Minoru
    宇都宮美術館, Jul. 2005
  • Potenziale multimedialer Aufführung und "Szenische Musik" -- einige Bemerkungen zum Helikopter-Streichquartett
    SHIMIZU Minoru
    Kongressbericht Stockhausen 2000 LICHT, LIT Verlag, Feb. 2005, Research society
  • Susan Buck-Morss, The Dialectics of Seeing-Walter Benjamin and The Arcades Projects, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1991(Book Reviews related to Walter Benjamin)
    Shimizu Minoru
    Virginia Woolf Review, The Virginia Woolf Society of Japan, 22 68 - 69, 2005
  • 砂漠よさようなら-森山大道の光と影
    清水 穣
    BT美術手帖、美術出版社, March, 2003
  • 絵画の鏡:アブストラクト・ペインティングの成立
    清水 穣
    BT 美術手帖、美術出版社, January, 2003
  • GAKU (asobi/utamai)
    清水 穣
    Handwoerterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie, 2003
  • Gerhard Richter -- 絵画の鏡:アブストラクト・ペインティングの成立
    清水 穣
    美術出版社・BT美術手帖, (1月), 2002
  • What is Plura-Monism?
    清水 穣
    Perspectives of New Music, Winter39, 2001
  • Stockhausen und Japan - Licht und Schatten
    SHIMIZU Minoru
    Signale aus Köln, Band IV, Pfau Verlag, Dec. 1999, Symposium
  • Llappi (...Lapland), or on the 'Foreignness' of Foreign Language
    Shimizu Minoru
    Doshisha studies in language and culture, Doshisha University, 1(1) 221 - 237, Jul. 1998
  • Immanenz und Photographie--Photgraphie und Sprachphilosophie bei Walter Benjamin
    (98), 1997
  • 〈D〉線上のアリア--ベッヒャーシューレ,ヨーロッパ近代そして戦後ドイツ
    清水 穣
    BT美術手帖, (3), 1997
  • 写真と内在--ヴァルター・ベンヤミンの言語哲学と写真論
    清水 穣
    「ドイツ文学」日本独文学会, (98), 1997
  • Es denkt, es blitzt, es sieht -無人の風景とベルント + ヒラ・ベッヒャー-
    清水 穣
    川崎市民ミュージアム カタログ・論文集, 1996
  • und Uber "Die Idee der Naturgeschichte" bei Adorno Ein Exkurs : Holderlins Dialektik
    Shimizu Minoru
    Doshisha gaikoku-bungaku-kenkyu : studies in foreign literatures of Doshisha, Doshisha University, 69 220 - 240, 31 Jan. 1995
  • 〈自然史〉と〈存在〉附論
    清水 穣
    同志社外国文学研究, (69), 1995
  • und : uber "Die Idee der Naturgeschichte" bei Adorno
    Shimizu Minoru
    Doshisha gaikoku-bungaku-kenkyu : studies in foreign literatures of Doshisha, Doshisha University, 68 141 - 160, 15 Mar. 1994
  • From the Zuoye affair to the Anti-Rightist Struggle
    Shimizu Minoru
    同志社外国文学研究 = Doshisha Gaikoku-Bungaku-Kenkyu (Doshisha studies in foreign literature), Alternative:Association of Foreign Literatures of Doshisha University, (64) 89(46) - 86(49), 15 Dec. 1992

MISC

  • Gerhard RIchter's "Abstraktes Bild"
    MInoru Shimizu
    Pola Museum of Art Collection Catalogue, Mar. 2022
  • The impossible Subject in the Japanese sky. Taiji Matsue's JP, Makieta and Panorama-series
    Minoru Shimizu
    FOUR-D, Jul. 2021
  • Sightseeing: Formation of a
    清水 穣
    FOUR-D, Apr. 2021, Introduction commerce magazine
  • Ampo 68th, Koki 2680th
    清水 穣
    Dec. 2020, Introduction commerce magazine
  • A fatal bond. Photography and archive
    清水 穣
    FOUR-D, Jul. 2020, Introduction commerce magazine
  • Infinity of a color. For Kenjiro Okazaki (part 2)
    清水 穣
    UP(University of Tokyo Press), Jun. 2020, Introduction commerce magazine
  • Infinity of a color. For Kenjiro Okazaki (part 1)
    清水 穣
    UP(University of Tokyo Press), May 2020, Introduction commerce magazine
  • Walter Benjamin's "Unsinnliche Ähnlichkeit" and Photography
    清水 穣
    FOUR-D, May 2020, Introduction commerce magazine
  • Emptiness is Being. Hiroshi Sugimoto's New Works
    SHIMIZU Minoru
    京都市京セラ美術館, Mar. 2020
  • Dedicating to Futility. Gerhard Richter's Atelier
    SHIMIZU Minoru
    DVD Gerhard Richter Painting, Feb. 2020
  • Nothing but Photography. Shin Yanagisawa and Japanese Photography of the 1970s.
    SHIMIZU Minoru
    Yumiko Chiba Associates, Oct. 2019
  • Touching the Invisible. Yasuko Iba's Painting
    SHIMIZU Minoru
    東京都美術館, Jul. 2019
  • Teabowls as Readymades
    SHIMIZU Minoru
    Takuro Kuwata, Kosaku Kanechika Gallery, Dec. 2018
  • 低空飛行 — 迫鉄平のssnnaappsshhoott
    SHIMIZU Minoru
    Sprout Curation, May 2018
  • Another Story. "Abstraction as Impact" and Stieglitz
    SHIMIZU Minoru
    Web Real Kyoto, Jun. 2017
  • Locating Wolfgang Tillmans' "Neue Welt"
    SHIMIZU Minoru
    IMA, Sep. 2015
  • Reading Wolfgang Tillmans' Installation at Osaka
    SHIMIZU Minoru
    国立国際美術館通信, Sep. 2015
  • Review: Somehow the Mosaic looks Nice. Kodama Gallery Kyoto
    SHIMIZU Minoru
    Art Agenda (http://www.art-agenda.com/, Jun. 2015
  • Abandonment and Persistence. Risaku Suzuki’s Photography
    SHIMIZU Minoru
    Marugame Municipal Museum of Art, Jan. 2015
  • Monochrome-Pop. Ninagawa Mika's Recent Works
    SHIMIZU Minoru
    Hara Museum of Art, Jan. 2015
  • collage and presentness. Stephen Shore and Michael Fried
    2010
  • The eye and the object
    Seikyusha, 1, 2008
  • 「荒れ・ブレ・暈け」再考--森山大道の『写真よさようなら』復刊 (特集 コミュニケーションの現在・2006--五感へと遡行する多角的考察)
    清水 穣
    インターコミュニケーション, NTT出版, 15(4) 98 - 107, 2006
  • Not entered
    BT Bijtsu-Techo, January, 2003
  • An Air on the 《D》 String--Becher School, earopean modernity and the postwar Germany
    (3), 1997
  • Es denkt, es blitzt, es sieht -deserted landscape and Bernd + Hilla Becher
    Colloquium Becher (Kawasaki Citizens Museum Catalogue), 1996
  • Being and Natural history an appendix
    Doshisha Studies in Foreign Literature, (69), 1995
  • SLAVOJ ZIZEK : FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO : Enjoyment as a political factor Verso, 1991
    Shimizu Minoru
    Doshisha gaikoku-bungaku-kenkyu : studies in foreign literatures of Doshisha, Doshisha University, 64 86 - 89, 15 Dec. 1992

Books etc

  • Gerhard Richter
    桝田, 倫広; 鈴木, 俊晴; 東京国立近代美術館; 豊田市美術館; 朝日新聞社; 森, かおる; 廣瀬, 歩; 太田, 美留久; 浅沼, 敬子; Elger, Dietmar; Richter, Gerhard; 福元, 崇志; 中尾, 拓哉; 清水, 穣; 仲間, 裕子; Schwarz, Dieter; 林, 寿美; 田中, 純; Buchloh, B. H. D.; Gronert, Stefan; Gerhard Richter art foundation; Gerhard Richter Archiv; 和光, 清
    青幻舎, Jun. 2022, Joint work, "Overpainted Photographs"; "Mirroring Music. Gerhard Richter and music"
  • For planes which do not exist. Gerhard Richter's abstract drawings.
    Minoru Shimizu
    Jun. 2022, Single work
  • 写真2 現代写真: 行為・イメージ・態度
    京都芸術大学 東北芸術工科大学 出版局 藝術学舎, 15 Feb. 2021, Joint work, 「絵画と写真 ゲルハルト・リヒター全解」
  • Fifty years of Printimaking at Tama Art University
    清水 穣
    Tama Art University, Jan. 2021, Joint work, Printmaking and Photography, prints and layers
  • On digital photography
    Minoru Shimizu
    University of Tokyo Press, Feb. 2020, Single work
  • 陶芸考 : 現代日本の陶芸家たち
    清水, 穣
    現代思潮新社, Dec. 2016
  • Grainy, Blurry, Out-of-Focus’ : Daido Moriyama’s Farewell Photography
    SHIMIZU Minoru
    Tate Modern, 2012, Joint work, Daido Moriyama. ed. by Simon Baker
  • プルラモン 単数にして複数の存在
    現代思潮新社, 2011
  • Pluramon, the singular-plural being
    Gendai Shicho Shinsha Publishing, 2011
  • 日々是写真
    現代思潮新社, 2009
  • The Concept of Everyday for Photography
    Gendai Shicho Shinsha, 2009
  • あれ・ブレ・暈け再考 ― 森山大道の『写真よさようなら』復刊
    青弓社『森山大道とその時代』, 2007
  • To the revised new edition of Daido Moriyama's "Farewell Photography"
    Seikyusha, 2007
  • 写真と日々
    現代思潮新社, 2006
  • Days of Photography
    Gendai Shicho Shinsha, 2006
  • レクイエムとしてのクラシック
    青弓社『クラシック音楽の政治学』, 2005
  • Classical music as requiem
    Seikyusha, 2005
  • 新宿 インデックス
    大和ラヂエータ森山大道全集, 2004
  • Shinjuku Index
    Daiwa Radiator Co. Catalog Raisonne, Daido Moriyama, 2004

  • Handwoerterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie, 2003
  • GAKU (Asobi/Utamai)
    Handwoerterbuch der musikalischen Terminologie, 2003
  • アブストラクト・ペインティングの変容
    Gerhard Richter カタログ和光ワークスオブアート, 2002
  • 森山大道・暗室の路上
    タカイシイ・ギャラリー森山大道PLATFORM, 2002
  • Transitions of the Abstract Painting
    Gerhard Richter CatalogueWako Works of Art, 2002
  • Daido Neither Nor
    Taka Ishii GalleryDaido Moriyama PLATFORM, 2002
  • ゲルハルト・リヒター一つの基本モデル
    ワコウ・ワークス・オブ・アート, 2001
  • Oel auf Photographie -Ein Grundmodell
    Wako Works of Art, 2001
  • Was ist Plura-Monismus ?
    Signale aus Koeln, Band 4, Pfau Verlag, 1999
  • Stockhausen und Japan - Licht und Schatten
    Signale aus Koeln, Band 4, Pfau Verlag, 1999
  • Was ist Plura-Monismus ?
    Signale aus Koeln, Band 4, Pfau Verlag, 1999
  • Stockhausen und Japan - Licht und Schatten
    Signale aus Koeln, Band 4, Pfau Verlag, 1999
  • アドルノ・アンフォルメル--音楽批評への一序説
    文部省科研論集, 1998
  • Adorno Informelle--notes on the critic of music
    1998
  • Rigorose Freiheit--Drei Bemerkungen zu Takeokas Schaffen
    Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, 1997
  • Rigorose Freiheit--Drei Bemerkungen zu Takeokas Schaffen
    Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, 1997
  • ゲルハルト・リヒター写真論/絵画論
    淡交社, 1996
  • Gerhard Richter Text
    Tanko-sha publishing, 1996
  • 不可視性としての写真 The Photographic Invisible.
    ワコウ・ワークス・オブ・アート, 1995
  • The Photographic Invisible
    Wako Works of Art, 1995
  • 『シュトックハウゼン音楽論集』
    現代思潮社
  • 白と黒で 写真と・・
    現代思潮新社

Presentations

  • Zerrissen zwischen Unersetzlichem und Wiederholbarem. Daido Moriyamas Fotografie
    SHIMIZU Minoru
    Fotografische Sammlung SK Stiftung Köln, 2007, Cologne, Germany
  • Das Woher und Wohin der Farbphotographie
    SHIMIZU Minoru
    "Keep in Touch" Neue Japanische Photographie, 2003, Graz, Austria
  • Begegnung mit dem Japanischen durch die europäische Avandgarde -- Neue Musik und japanische Komponisten
    SHIMIZU Minoru
    University of Cologne, Faculty of Musicology, International Symposium "Musik und Verstehen", 2003, Cologne, Germany
  • Contemporary Art in Japan
    SHIMIZU Minoru
    Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln, Kunsthochschule Bremen, 2001, Cologne and Bremen, Germany
  • Potenziale multimedialer Aufführung und "Szenische Musik" -- einige Bemerkungen zum Helikopter-Streichquartett
    SHIMIZU Minoru
    University of Cologne, Faculty of Musicology, International Stockhausen Symposium, 2000, Cologne, Germany
  • Was ist Pluramonismus?
    SHIMIZU Minoru
    University od Cologne, Faculty of Musicology, International Stockhausen Symposium, 1998, Cologne, Germany
  • Stockhausen und Japan - Licht und Schatten
    SHIMIZU Minoru
    University od Cologne, Faculty of Musicology, International Stockhausen Symposium, 1998, Cologne, Germany

Research Projects

  • German Literature and Media
    ASAI Kenjiro; SHIMIZU Minoru; IKEDA Koichi; FUJII Keiji; HIRANO Yoshihiko; MATSUURA Jun
    The nosthetic and social paradigm of literary and other artintic expressions has begun to go through a significant change as the result of the development of new media technologies such as photography, the motion picture, sound recording and electronic communication, which atarted to appear since the latter half of the nineteenth century. The beginning of today's computer age is functioning as another cause to the rapid change of thin paradigm. Our research project was launched in order to critically examine this phenomenon as well as to relativise the traditional framework of literature studies by focusing upon the media of expression instead of the subject of it. During the 21 colloquia so far, each of which was consisted of study reports from the participants and discussions over them, we have 1.investigated the position of the writing culture within the larger circumstances of the modern media by focusing on Kafka and Musil among others. We examined further the process of how the letter symbols had been used to integrate the voice (or noise), madness and the body, and also discussed its possibilities, focusing on the concrete poetry as a literary attempt for this goal as well as on the "storytelling" as an imitation of the oral tradition. 2.While evaluating the contemporary German media theories positively, examined the media theories, language theories and translation theories of W.Benjamin, who was a critic at the dawning age of verbal and other artistic expressions based on reproduction techniques. In this regard, we have selected for our future discussions such topics as the mediation character of verbal expression, the density of the mediation material of expression, the possibility for word-for-word translation, the delay of perception through the new media and the formation of the mass. 3.discovered that the recognition structure through language has altered under the development of science and technology with regards to the writing activities of authors such as Th.nn, G.Benn and R.Musil, whose texts were examined from this point of view. The literary movements of those writers who were from the former eastern Germany, which was going through a period of major social changes, were also reviewed from the same perspective. 4.stressed the actuality of other fields than literature such as songs, instrumental music, opera and photography as well as that of such problems as narcissism and pigmalionism, as neighboring fields and problems to literature from the points of views of artistic expression, mediation material of expression and virtual reality. Further, we discussed the problem of the contrast between inside and outside of the world that is caused by the media. Our research project has thus been concentrating on raviewing literary expressions from the perspective of the media. It was, however, also pointed out that it was impossible to separate the subject of perception and expression as the "body" which stands against the media from the above perspective. It will be critically important to commence an approach from the perspective of the body in order to examine the paradigm change through the modern media as a whole., Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, 1995 -1997, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A), University of Tokyo
  • Theory of Contemporary Photography
    Competitive research funding
  • Contemporary Music Theory(electro-acoustic music)
    Competitive research funding
  • 現代写真論
    Competitive research funding
  • 現代音楽論(電子音楽論)
    Competitive research funding