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Authority On Japanese Woodblock Prints To Give Gallery Talk At
University Of Virginia Art Museum November 10, 2003 -- WHAT: Weedon Lectures in the Arts of Asia WHO:
Sandy Kita, assistant professor of Japanese Art History TITLE: “Edo Then, America Now: Understanding Japanese Prints and their Appeal” WHEN: Sunday, Nov. 23, 2 p.m. WHERE: U.Va. Art Museum, Main Gallery In conjunction with the University of Virginia Art Museum exhibition, “The Moon Has No Home: Japanese Woodblock Prints from the Collection of the University of Virginia Art Museum,” Japanese art historian Sandy Kita will give a gallery talk. Japanese color woodblock prints, often known as Ukiyo-e or pictures of the floating world, are among the most collected and appreciated genres of Japanese art in both Japan and the United States. The U.Va. Art Museum possesses a striking collection of these prints from the 19th century. Responding to rapid changes in Japanese society, which eventually ended with the fall of the repressive Tokugawa regime, Ukiyo-e artists of the late 18th and 19th centuries created work that was intensely imaginative and innovative. They daringly broadened the range of traditional subject matter without ever abandoning the beauty and poetry that was inherent in Ukiyo-e. Kita
served as co-curator of the exhibit with Stephen Margulies, the
museum’s
curator of works on paper. Kita is also the co-author (with Margulies)
of the exhibition catalog. He is assistant professor of Japanese
art at the University
of Maryland and has curated numerous exhibitions. An authority
on Japanese painting and prints, he has frequently taught at
the Rare Book School of the University
of Virginia. Among his For details about the lecture, call the University of Virginia Art Museum at (434) 924-3592 or visit the Web site: http://www.virginia.edu/artmuseum. Contact: Jane Ford, (434) 924-4298 |
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