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Screens and Scrolls
Japanese Painting from the Ackland Museum of Art
This exhibition offers a rare opportunity
to experience the thematic scope and stylistic diversity of the
Japanese painting tradition. A full range of formats brings to
life the unique viewing experiences and aesthetic sensibilities
of Japanese painting. Majestic folding screens, often used to
decorate aristocratic homes and the castles of military rulers,
explore a variety of auspicious themes. A wide selection of hanging
scrolls depict such subjects as Buddhist devotional icons, Zen
landscapes designed to challenge the imagination, Chinese inspired
narratives, and even the ukiyo-Japan's "floating
world" of pleasure and entertainment. The delightful world
of flower and bird themes is explored in both album and scroll
formats. Colorfully painted hand scrolls, rendered in the indigenous
yamato-e style, offer an especially intimate perspective
of both scenes of everyday life and the Tale of Genji,
Japan's most well known classical narrative.
Most of the paintings in this exhibition
are from the Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. Two important Buddhist icons are on loan from
The Harvard University Art Museums and two works, an eighteenth-century
Tale of Genji scroll and an ukiyo-e painting, are
from the Hood Museum of Art's collection.
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Curator:
Allen
Hockley, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History |
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Hood Museum of Art:
Juliette Bianco, Exhibitions Manager
Katherine Hart, Barbara C. and Harvey P. Hood 1918 Curator of
Academic
Programming
Evelyn Marcus, Curator of Exhibitions
Katherine A. Josephs, Exhibitions Assistant |
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Visiting Speakers:
Anne Nishimura Morse, Curator of Japanese Art, Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston
Anne Rose Kitagawa, Assistant Curator of Japanese Art, Harvard
University Art Museums
Victoria Weston, Assistant Professor of Asian Art, University
of Massachusetts, Boston |
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Website Design:
Mayumi
Ishida, Senior Lecturer in Japanese, Department of Asian
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Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures |
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Image Scanning:
Janice B. Smarsik, Assistant Curator of Visual Resources, Department
of Art History |
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