POETIC IMAGINATION SYMPOSIUM - Shinobu Ikeda

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Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art: A Symposium
The Mildred Schnitzer Annual Asian Art Program for 2018

A Yamato-e Perspective on Poetic Imagination
SHINOBU IKEDA

Professor, Division of Historical Studies, Faculty of Letters, Chiba University

Shinobu Ikeda is Professor in the Department of History at Chiba University in Japan. Among her key publications are the monograph The Image of Women in Japanese Painting (日本絵画 の女性像 : ジェンダー美術史の視点 から, Chikuma Shobō, 1998) and the scholarly essay “Imperial Desire and Female Subjectivity: Umehara Ryūzaburō’s Kunyan Series,” translated by Ignacio Adriasola (Ars Orientalis 47, 2017). Professor Ikeda is currently writing a book on gender, locality, and empire in the popular arts movements of the modern period (mingei, nōmin bijutsu, and shugei), as well as doing research
on the fourteenth-century handscroll painting Illustrated Biography of Priest Kakunyo (Bokie), with a focus on the people and religious spaces of early-period Honganji Temple.

This lecture was recorded on December 08, 2018 in Portland Art Museum's Whitsell Auditorium.

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