The Roles and Representations of Animals in Japanese Art and Culture, Part 5
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audio
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Arts
Museums
Visual Arts
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Arts
Visual Arts
Publication Date |
Jul 09, 2019
Episode Duration |
00:51:22
Daniel McKee, adjunct assistant professor and bibliographer, department of Asian studies, Cornell University Artworks representing animals—real or imaginary, religious or secular—span the full breadth and splendor of Japanese artistic production. As the first exhibition devoted to the subject, The Life of Animals in Japanese Art covers 17 centuries (from the fifth century to the present day) and a wide variety of media. At the symposium held on June 7, 2019, in conjunction with the exhibition, Daniel McKee focused on the importance of historical context in interpreting Japanese art. The first part of his talk demonstrated the value of adding iconography and the circumstances of production to the aesthetic analysis of a single work from the exhibit. The second and main part outlined chronologically the history of animal representations in Japanese painting, finding that social and political interests outweighed the commonly assumed “Japanese love of nature.”

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