ImayÅ: Public lecture by Japanese art historian John SZOSTAK
October 2, 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Mānoa Campus, ART Auditorium and The Art Gallery
John SZOSTAK presents "Artists of ImayÅ: An Exhibition Overview," a public lecture. SZOSTAK is a professor of Japanese art history and curator of the exhibition "ImayÅ: Japan's New Traditionists" on view at The Art Gallery at the University of Hawai‘i at MÄnoa (Oct. 2 – Dec. 2, 2016) and at the Honolulu Museum of Art (Oct. 13, 2016 – Jan. 9, 2017).
The curator and project director of the exhibition "ImayÅ: Japan’s New Traditionists" is John Szostak, professor of Japanese art history at the 91ƷϳԹM. Szostak’s primary area of research is Japanese neo-traditional painting of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He also harbors an interest in Japan’s contemporary art. Szostak has published essays on a wide range of subjects and themes including modern Japanese painting, propaganda prints, Japanese aesthetics, Korean painting during the Japanese colonial period, and modernist Buddhist art. In 2013 he published "Painting Circles: Tsuchida Bakusen and Nihonga Collectives in Early 20th Century Japan," a book on the Kyoto-based painting collective, the Kokuga Society, and its leader Tsuchida Bakusen (1887–1936). He is currently working on a book entitled "Tradition Redux: Art Historical Re-Visions in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Art."
The reception follows from 3:00-5:00 p.m.
Ticket Information
Admission is free. Parking fees may apply.
Event Sponsor
Art + Art History, Mānoa Campus
More Information
Sharon Tasaka, 956-6888, gallery@hawaii.edu,
