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Toshio Watanabe: Ryoanji Garden as the Epitome of Zen Culture
The final lecture in the 2012 Frank Davis Lecture Series was given by Prof Toshio Watanabe, from the University of the Arts, London. At its centre was an extraordinary object, the Ryoanji Garden in Kyoto, regarded as one of the finest … Continue reading
Categories: Research Forum | Tags: Aesthetics, art history, canon, Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series, gardens, Japan, Lorraine Kuck, narratives, Orient, Research Forum, ritual, sculptural forms, spatial forms, Toshio Watanabe, Zen Buddhism | 1 commentORIENTALISM AND “ISLAMOPHILIA”
This year’s Frank Davis Memorial Lecture Series, titled Histories in Transition, explores the theme of historicism in visual art of the modern period. For the third lecture in the series, Rémi Labrusse, of Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre, described idealist visions … Continue reading
Categories: Research Forum | Tags: Aesthetics, Alhambra, art, colonialism, decorative art, figuration, Frank Dillon, geometric abstraction, Great Exhibition of 1851, Histories, history painting, idealism, idealist visions, imperialism, industrial capitalism, Islamophilia, Jean-Léon Gerôme, Labrusse, Middle East, narratives, nineteenth-century art, Orient, Orientalism, painting, Research Forum, Transition, visual art | Leave a comment
