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SUMMARY:The Natural History of Style: Specimens\, Albums\, and the History
  of Art in Early Modern Japan (Sponsored by the June and Simon Li Foundati
 on) - Kris Kersey
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251119T170000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20251119T180000Z
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DESCRIPTION:This talk asks us to reconsider the origins of art history in 
 Japan. It does so by setting up a comparison between the collecting activi
 ties of those engaged in what we now call the natural sciences and those e
 ngaged in what we now call the history of art. Agents in both fields were 
 invested in finding exemplars\, carefully labeling them\, and arranging th
 em according to morphological taxonomies. In chronological terms\, the tal
 k spans the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. In archival terms\, the prim
 ary focus is _tekagami_\, a genre of albums that compiled the so-called 
 “exemplary hands” of calligraphers or painters. In reading art history
  and the natural sciences alongside one another\, we arrive at a far more 
 nuanced understanding of how the history of form emerged in early modernit
 y.\n\n*Kristopher Kersey* is an Associate Professor in the Department of A
 rt History at UCLA. His latest book is _Facing Images: Medieval Japanese A
 rt and the Problem of Modernity_ (Penn State University Press\, 2024).\nSp
 eakers:\nKris Kersey
LOCATION:Lincoln College (Oakeshott Room)\, Turl Street OX1 3DR
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/f4ed6a26-19df-4fcd-9fa2-f3203e188bde/
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