December 14
Looking In, Looking Out: The Arts of China and Japan
with Ruth Kurzbauer and Carol Morland
December 14, 1:00-2:30 pm
What can the arts of China and Japan tell us about the societies and histories of those countries - their ideals, aspirations, and traumas, past and present? Join Ruth Kurzbauer and Carol Morland as they delve into these questions.
With a brief reference to China’s long painting past, Ruth will provide an introductory “dim sum” of some of the many trends in Chinese 20th century painting which, along with other forms, has taken a major place in today’s international art world.
Carol Morland will talk about Japanese art through the lens of three moments of contact with China: the 15th century importation of Chinese culture by Zen Buddhist monasteries; the 18th century implantation of Chinese literati culture to a very different Japanese milieu; and the joint creation in the early 20th century of a “national style” that was both traditional and modern.
Carol Morland’s interest in Japanese art and culture took her to Japan in the 1970s where she studied and taught. She holds a PhD from The University of Michigan, with a specialty in painting of the Edo period when age-old traditions and ways of thinking were being challenged by China and the West. Ruth Kurzbauer served as a US diplomat to the People’s Republic of China numerous times over 40 years. Thanks to on-the-ground opportunities and her husband, a serious collector of Chinese 19th Century art, Ruth has collected 20th Century Chinese art and is continuing to learn as a “passionate amateur.”
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