Shades of Jealousy: Gendered Ghosts and Gendered Actors in Early Modern Kabuki Satoko Shimazaki Assistant Professor University of Colorado, Boulder The female ghost of Oiwa in Tsuruya Nanboku’s canonical kabuki play Ghost Stories at Yotsuya (Tōkaidō Yotsuya kaidan, 1825) was constructed as a sort of visual montage of images deeply rooted in gendered religious [...]
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VMPEA: Chelsea Foxwell
Angels and Demons: Toshio Aoki (1853 -1912), A Japanese Artist in California Chelsea Foxwell Assistant Professor, Art History Department, Chicago University Feb 17, 4-6 pm In the 1880s, a little-known Japanese painter named Aoki Toshio traveled from Yokohama to California, where he would spend the rest of his life practicing art -broadly defined- at the [...]
May 6-7, Screens in East Asia Symposium
THE SCREEN IN EAST ASIA AND BEYOND A Symposium Organized by the Center for the Art of East Asia, Department of Art History, University of Chicago, May 6-7, 2011 Location: Franke Institute for the Humanities, 1100 East 57th Street, Chicago IL The folding or standing screen is a mobile partition that creates a space at [...]
Jan 21, Andrew Shih-ming Pai
Andrew Shih-ming Pai Associate Professor, National Taiwan Normal University Friday, January 21, 4- 6 pm CWAC 156 Modernity in Agony: Contemporaneity and the Representation of Modern Life in Colonial Taiwanese Art Abstract: Since the Japanese took power in Taiwan, the colonial government initiated “modernization” programs systematically and carried out political, economic, cultural and educational reforms [...]
Jan 14, Kao Chien-Hui
Kao Chien-Hui Independent curator and art critic Friday, January 14, 2- 4 pm CWAC 156 The Transformation of Line and Form –The Linking Context of the Chinese Figure/Narrative Painting and the Comic World Abstract: The special subject exhibition of the 7th International Ink Art Biennale of Shenzhen, ‘Com(ic)media on Line’, re-interprets the lines of comics [...]
Nov 19, Maki Fukuoka
Maki Fukuoka Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures University of Michigan Friday, November 19, 4- 6 pm CWAC 156 Site of transformation: Asakusa, Photographic Studios, and Media in Modern Japan Abstract: In the early days of Japan’s photographic history, the area known as Asakusa in the capital Tokyo became the hotspot for photographic studios. There, [...]
Oct 22, Dorothy Wong
Dorothy Wong Associate Professor, East Asian Art University of Virginia Friday, October 22, 4- 6 pm CWAC 156 Divergent Paths: Early Representations of Amoghapasa in East, South and Southeast Asia Amoghapāśa Avalokiteśvara (Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva with the Unfailing Rope; Chi. Bukongjuansuo Guanyi, J. Fukūkenjaku Kannon) is one of the manifestations of Avalokiteśvara, with widespread worship in [...]