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A Legacy Of Persuasion: Japanese Photography And The Artful Politics Of Remembering Manchuria, Kari Shepherdson-Scott

Kari L Shepherdson-Scott

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Shared Landscapes, Cloth And Meaning In The Mindanao Highlands, Cherubim Quizon

Cherubim A Quizon

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Portugal, Jesuits, And Japan: Spiritual Beliefs And Earthly Goods, Victoria Weston

Victoria Weston

This exhibition catalogue brings together an international group of scholars addressing various topics related to Nanban trade screens and the objects and ideas represented in them. The catalogue accompanied the exhibition of the same title at the McMullen Museum, Boston College. Weston authored the Introduction and an essay on trade screens in the show.

Greek Bronze: Holding A Mirror To Life, Expanded Reprint From The Irish Philosophical Yearbook 2006: In Memoriam John J. Cleary 1949-2009, Babette Babich

Babette Babich

To explore the ethical and political role of life-sized bronzes in ancient Greece, as Pliny and others report between 3,000 and 73,000 such statues in a city like Rhodes, this article asks what these bronzes looked like. Using the resources of hermeneutic phenomenological reflection, as well as a review of the nature of bronze and casting techniques, it is argued that the ancient Greeks encountered such statues as images of themselves in agonistic tension in dynamic and political fashion. The Greek saw, and at the same time felt himself regarded by, the statue not as he believed the statue divine …

White Snake, Black Snake Folk Narrative Meets Master Narrative In Qing Dynasty Sichuanese Cross-Stitch Medallions, Cory Willmott

Cory A. Willmott

The cross-stitch medallion in figure 1 was collected by my grandmother, Katherine Willmott, in the early 1920s when she was a missionary in Renshow, Sichuan Province, West China. Many years after I inherited it, I learned that it depicts a folk narrative called “White Snake; Black Snake” that was traditionally performed both on stage in the legitimate theaters and in Chinese shadow puppet dramas (Highbaugh n/d:6).

The story may be summarized as follows: There were two female snakes, White Snake and Black Snake, who were inseparable friends. They both changed into beautiful young women. White Snake got married and bore …

The Paradox Of Gender Among West China Missionary Collectors, 1920-1950, Cory A. Willmott

Cory A. Willmott

During the turbulent years between the Chinese nationalist revolution of 1911 and the communist victory of 1949, a group of missionaries lived and worked in West China whose social gospel theologies led to unusual identification with Chinese. Among the regular social actors in their lives were itinerant “curio men” who, amidst the chaos of feuding warlords, gathered up the heirlooms of the deposed Manchurian aristocracy and offered these wares for sale on the quiet and orderly verandahs of the mansions inside the missionary compounds of West China Union University. Although missionary men and women often collected the same types of …

Divan Japonais: Toulouse-Lautrec And Japanese Art, Eva Maria Raepple

Eva Maria Raepple

The French nineteenth century artists Henry Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) is known for his distinctive style and bold character portraits of the theatrical scene of the gaslight era in Paris. The paper examines some of the formative influences of eighteenth century Japanese art on the development of visual characters, with specific focus on a lithograph entitled Divan Japonais. Alluding to the refined representation of Japanese courtesans, subtle nuanced reminiscences to an ideal of elegance create an allusion to highly respected courtesans in the Japanese ‘Green Houses’ of the Asian Yoshiwara the famous “Good Luck Meadow” in Edo, present day Tokyo. I argue …

Indigenism, Painting And Identity: Mixing Media Under Philippine Dictatorship, Cherubim Quizon

Cherubim A Quizon

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Japanese Painting And National Identity: Okakura Tenshin And His Circle, Victoria Weston

Victoria Weston

Japanese Painting and National Identity is the first monograph in English to address the art and philosophy of a group of Meiji painters regarded by many as seminal figures in the development of modern Japanese painting. Lead by the outspoken and widely published art critic Okakura Tenshin, this group, including artists Yokoyama Taikan, Shimomura Kanzan, Hishida Shunsô, and others, wrestled with the vexing problem of how to modernize traditional media, methods, and styles while keeping the results authentically Japanese. Yet they saw themselves not just as artists but as servants of the nation. Their task, they believed, was to give …

Copying The Master And Stealing His Secrets: Talent And Training In Japanese Painting, Victoria Weston

Victoria Weston

This edited volume explores the roles of innate talent and art studio/school training as developed in the Kano school of painters. The chapters are case studies of particular painters and training practices. Weston is author of "Institutionalizing Talent and the Kano Legacy at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts, 1889-1893," co-author with Martha McClintock of "Okuhara Seiko: A Case of Funpon Training in Late Edo Literati Painting," and co-author with Brenda Jordan of the Introduction.

East Meets West: Isabella Stewart Gardner And Okakura Kakuzō, Victoria Weston

Victoria Weston

This exhibition catalogue accompanied the exhibition of the same name shown at the Gardner Museum in 1993. The exhibition featured the fusuma and folding screen sets owned by the Gardner of generally seventeenth century Kano authorship. The catalogue essay discusses the relationship between Mrs. Gardner and Japanese art critic Okakura Kakuzō during the years 1904 to 1913 and the development of the Chinese Room. The painting "Two Dragons Contending for the Moon" by Yokoyama Taikan (ca. 1904/5) and his quick sketch inside the cover of Mrs. Gardner's guest book (discovered and identified by Weston) were included in the exhibition.