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The 164th Nichibunken Lecture

Theme

The Aesthetics of Animation in Early Modern Japanese Portraiture

Overview

▶ view PDF Art historical discussions of images as animated or imbued with life often take the form of a rhetorical exercise. However, early modernity in East Asia offers examples of deliberate confounding of pictorial and ‘real’ space, along with claims to the ontological presence of images. This talk will focus on stories of painted portraits coming to life, as well as on actual portraits, produced within the urban vernacular culture of late seventeenth-century Japan. Their analysis points toward a non-visual-centred history of art, based instead on the bodily encounter with the volumetric presence of images. The discussion also suggests a non-human-centred ontological model revolving around scenarios of interaction with images.
Speaker
Radu LECA
Hong Kong Baptist University
Discussant
Timon SCREECH
International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Moderator
Edward BOYLE
International Research Center for Japanese Studies

Information

Date: 2024.02.13 (Tue) 
Place:
ONLINE (Zoom) and Seminar Room 1, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Start time:
15:00(JST)
End time:
16:30
Target audience:
Open to researchers, including students
Language:
English
ONLINE Participation:
Application required. Please apply using this form by NOON on February 9.
The URL for the Zoom meeting will be provided by the day before this seminar.
ONSITE Participation:
First come, first served.
Contact details for inquiries:
Projects Unit, Research Cooperation Section,
International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Email kenkyo*nichibun.ac.jp (Please replace * with @.)
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