A two-day symposium organized in conjunction with the special exhibition
NIHONGA, Transcending the Past: Japanese-Style Painting, 1868-1968 will be
offered at The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, November 3-4,
1995. The exhibition will feature over 170 works of art, shown in two
rotations of four weeks each, and represents the works of 61 artists,
including such masters of NIHONGA as Kishi Chikud=F4, Tomioka Tessai,=
Takeuchi
Seih=F4, Yokoyama Taikan, Hishida Shuns=F4, Kawabata Ry=FBshi, Maeda Seison,=
and
Kayama Mataz=F4. The exhibition will have an exclusive showing at The Saint
Louis Art Museum.
This international symposium has been organized for students, scholars, and
other interested persons to promote a broader recognition of Japanese art
after the Meiji Restoration, which began with the opening of Japan to the
West in 1868, and its enduring aesthetic and intellectual impact on modern
Japanese culture. Prominent art historians and curators from Japan, Europe,
and the United States will discuss the historical and cultural aspects of
NIHONGA, including its influence on other art forms and its interaction with
the more familiar Western-style Japanese painting known as y=F4ga.
We are pleased to announce the Honorary Chairs of the Symposium as
Shinichiro Asao, President, The Japan Foundation, Tokyo; Hideo Tomiyama,
Director, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; and James D. Burke,
Director, The Saint Louis Art Museum. The program has benefitted from the
expertise of the Senior Symposium Committee: Marius B. Jansen, Professor
Emeritus, Princeton University; John M. Rosenfield, Professor Emeritus,
Harvard University; and Takeo Uchiyama, Deputy Director, The National Museum
of Modern Art, Tokyo.
The symposium has been made possible by a generous gift from Frances L.
Blakemore, with additional assistance from The Japan Foundation Center for
Global Partnership, New York, and the Honorary Consul General of Japan at
St. Louis, Bruce S. Buckland.
Session I: Traditional Sources of Nihonga
Friday, November 3, 1:30 pm-5:00 pm
Welcome: James D. Burke, Director, The Saint Louis Art Museum
Kyok=F4 Nakayama, Executive Vice President, The Japan Foundation,=
Tokyo
Chairs: John M. Rosenfield, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of East=
Asian
Art Emeritus, Harvard University
Takeo Uchiyama, Deputy Director, The National Museum of Modern=
Art,
Tokyo
Speakers: Christine Guth, Independent Scholar, New Jersey
Common Threads: Yamato-e, Rinpa, Nihonga
James Cahill, Professor in the Graduate School, History of Art,
University of California, Berkeley
Nihonga Painters in the Nanga Tradition and their Chinese
Connections
Speaker to be announced
Discussants: Ellen P. Conant, Independent Scholar, New York, and guest=
curator
William H. Matheson, Professor of Comparative Literature, and
Director of the Ph.D. Program in Chinese/Japanese=
Comparative
Literature, Washington University, St. Louis
Cocktail Buffet: Evening (Optional; $30.00)
Session II: Nihonga: New Dimensions
Saturday, November 4, 9:30-Noon
8:00-9:30 am: Coffee and rolls
Chairs: Marius B. Jansen, Professor Emeritus, Japanese History,=
Princeton=20
University
Hideo Tomiyama, Director, The National Museum of Modern Art,=
Kyoto
Speakers: Paul Berry, Associate Professor, University of Washington,=
Seattle
Japanese Painting on a New Scale: The Development of=
Nihonga
for the Exhibition Hall
Lawrence Smith, Keeper of Japanese Antiquities, The British=
Museum,
London
The Japana-Britain Exhibition of 1910: Two Rediscovered
Textiles
Kaoru Kojima, formerly Curator of the National Museum of Modern=
=20
Art, Tokyo; Curator, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo
Traditional Teachers of Leading Taisho Painters
Discussants: Thomas Rimer, Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and
Literature, University of Pittsburgh
Marvin Marcus, Associate Professor of Japanese Language and
Literature, Director of East Asian Studies, Washington
University, St. Louis
Lunch: Optional box lunch ($6.50) Museum Cafe and snack bar open.
Session III: Nihonga and Other Media
Saturday, November 4, 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Chairs: Oliver Impey, Senior Assistant Keeper, Department of Eastern=
Art,
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University
Gunhild Avitabile, Director, Japan Society Gallery, New York
Speakers: Emiko Yamanashi, Researcher, Tokyo National Research Institute=
of
Cultural Properties
Conflicted Aspirations: Nihonga Artists and Western Art
Toshio Watanabe, Professor, Chelsea College of Art and Design,
The London Institute
Meiji Watercolor Painting: Its Role in the Nihonga/Y=F4ga
Dichotomy
Mitsunobu Sat=F4, Director, Hiraki Ukiyo-e Museum, Tokyo
Nihonga Painters as Illustrators
Discussants: Steven Owyoung, Curator of Asian Art, The Saint Louis Art=
Museum
Mark S. Weil, Professor and Chair, Department of Art History=
and
Archeology, Washington University, St. Louis
Please register for the Nihonga symposium using the registration form below
and return it with payment to Symposium, Education Office, The Saint Louis
Art Museum, 1 Fine Arts Drive, St. Louis, MO 63110-1380. Faxed
registrations, with credit card number, will be accepted. FAX:=
(314)721-6172.
Symposium fees are $50 per person; $35 for students and Friends of the
Museum. The box lunch on Saturday at $6.50 and the Cocktail Buffet on Friday
at $30 are extra. The deadline to register for the box lunch or cocktail
buffet is October 21.
Participants are responsible for travel arrangements and hotel
accomodations. The Museum has arranged for a group of rooms at a nearby
hotel where participants are eligible for a special room rate of $65, single
or double. You must make your own reservations directly through the hotel
by October 14, 1995.
Radisson Hotel Clayton
(314) 726-5400 or (800) 333-3333
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