POETIC IMAGINATION SYMPOSIUM - Masatomo Kawai
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Channel: Portland Art Museum · 2018 · Education
Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art: A Symposium The Mildred Schnitzer Annual Asian Art Program for 2018 An Ink Painting Perspective on Poetic Imagination Masatomo Kawai Professor Emeritus, Keiō University and Director, Chiba City Museum of Art A specialist in ink painting of the Kantō region, Kawai Masatomo is a leading scholar of Japanese art history whose interests and publications span from the Kamakura to the late Edo period and a wide variety of artists and schools. As a scholar deeply interested in art history theory and in the Western reception of Japanese art, he has worked closely with scholars, curators, and collectors in North America and Europe for many decades. Recent projects include Gems of Ink Painting from the Drucker Collection: Japanese Art beloved by the ‘Father of Management’ (Bijutsu Shuppansha, 2015) and A Giant Leap: The Transformation of Hasegawa Tōhaku (co-author with Miyeko Murase, Japan Society Gallery, 2018). He is currently co-editing the exhibition catalogue The Life of Animals in Japanese Art (with Robert Singer, Princeton University Press, forthcoming 2019). This lecture was recorded on December 08, 2018 in Portland Art Museum's Whitsell Auditorium. Note: YouTube's automated closed captions may not accurately transcribe the Japanese text and is not able to present two languages simultaneously. We appreciate your understanding.
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