No.93

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【The 164th Nichibunken Lecture】

We are pleased to announce that the 164th Nichibunken Lecture will be held as follows:
https://www.nichibun.ac.jp/en/research/lectures/2024/02/13/

Date: February 13，2024 (TUE)
Time: 15:00 – 16:30 (JST)
Place: ONLINE (Zoom) and Seminar Room 1, Nichibunken

Topic: The Aesthetics of Animation in Early Modern Japanese Portraiture
Speaker: Radu LECA (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Discussant: Timon SCREECH （Nichibunken)
Moderator: Edward BOYLE （Nichibunken)

Abstract:
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.

Language: ENGLISH
Admission: FREE. Open to researchers, including students.

ONLINE Participation:
Application required. Please apply using the following form by NOON on February 9.
The URL for the Zoom meeting will be provided by the day before this seminar.
https://forms.office.com/r/zrYkh7DCW0

ONSITE Participation:
First come, first served.

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Contact details for inquiries:
Projects Unit, Research Cooperation Section,
International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Email: kenkyo@nichibun.ac.jp