Tradition and Transformation commemorates Chu-Tsing Li's achievements as an educator and scholar with essays by friends and former students, marking his long teaching career at the University of Kansas and, in particular, his contribution to the field of Asian studies. The topics of the essays range from early Chinese art history to contemporary Chinese art. When Chu-tsing Li arrived at the University of Kansas in 1966, it was with a mission: to establish the University as the leader in the Midwest, and eventually one of the important centers in the United States, for the study of Asian art. By the end of his teaching career in 1990, the program in Asian art had produced specialists in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean art and had trained and inspired numerous doctoral students, many of whom have gone on to become established scholars in their own right. In 1978 Dr. Li became the first Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor of Art History at the University of Kansas.

Tradition and Transformation: Studies in Chinese Art in Honor of Chu-Tsing Li

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Spencer Museum of Art

With essays by Monica Bethe, Mary M Dusenbury, Shih-shan Susan Huang, Ikumi Kaminishi, Guolong Lai, Richard Laursen, Liu Jian and Zhao Feng, Chika Mouri, Park Ah-rim, Hillary Pedersen, Lisa Shekede and Su Bomin, Sim Yeon-ok and Lee Seonyong, Tanaka Yoko, and Zhao Feng and Long Bo Color was a critical element in East Asian life and thought, but its importance has been largely overlooked in Western scholarship. This interdisciplinary volume explores the fascinating roles that color played in the society, politics, thought, art, and ritual practices of ancient and medieval East Asia (ca. 1600 B.C.E.–ca. 1400 C.E.). While the Western world has always linked color with the spectrum of light, in East Asian civilizations colors were associated with the specific plant or mineral substances from which they were derived. Many of these substances served as potent medicines and elixirs, and their transformative powers were extended to the dyes and pigments they produced. Generously illustrated, this groundbreaking publication constitutes the first inclusive study of color in East Asia. It is the outcome of years of collaboration between chemists, conservators, archaeologists, historians of art and literature, and scholars of Buddhism and Daoism from the United States, East Asia, and Europe.

Color in Ancient and Medieval East Asia

Programs of Medieval Illumination

CALKINS, Robert G.

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Art of the Indian Basket in North America

Fallon, Carol

Monograph on playfulness in Japanese Art. Franklin D. Murphy Lectures VII. Translated from the Japanese by Joseph Seubert. Illustrated with b/w photos & one color plate (frontispiece).

Playfulness in Japanese Art (Franklin D. Murphy Lectures No. VII)

Nobuo, Tsuji

This book examines the impact of visiting Chinese artists on Japanese art between 1600 and 1900. The book is divided into 5 parts: The influence of I Fu-chiu, Bird and Flower Painting, The Influence of Chiang Chia-p'u, chinese Visitors and Japanese Copies, and Japanese Nanga. Introduction. Color Plates.

Japanese Quest for a New Vision the Impact of Visiting Chinese Painters 1600 to 1900

Addiss, Stephen

Painting

Compilation of objects from the Arts and Crafts movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which was a direct response to the rapid industrialization of the era. Black and white and color plates with annotations.

Art With a Mission: Objects of the Arts and Crafts Movement

Patricia J. Fidler

Twenty progressive artists in Brussels among them many of the most important artists then working in Belgium formed the exhibition society Les XX in late 1883. This exhibition catalog includes a generous selection of their prints, drawings, posters, books, and journals (234 illustrations, 19 in color), while six essays explore the bonds between the visual arts, politics, literature, and music and their expression in Belgian graphic arts, and demonstrate the relevance of Les XX to several late 19th-century progressive artistic movements. Produced by the Spencer Museum of Art, U. of Kansas, and distributed by the U. of Washington Press. 9.25x11.5" Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Les XX and the Belgian Avant-Garde: Prints, Drawings, and Books Ca. 1890

Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art

Museum Voor Schone Kunsten (Ghent, Belgium)

Three essays explore three great masterworks of European art that visualize the relationship between spiritual and physical love expressed passionately and graphically in the biblical Song of Songs. Marilyn Aronberg Lavin writes on Cimabue's vast fresco cycle of the Virgin in the apse of San Francesco in Assisi, at the threshold of the Renaissance, where the Franciscan belief in the bodily Assumption is couched in terms of the Old Testament love poem. Irving Lavin demonstrates how the invocation of love in the Song of Songs molded the form of Michelangelo's Medici Madonna as well as his concept for the entire design and meaning of the Medici mortuary chapel in San Lorenzo, Florence. Writing together, the Lavins reveal the generative power of biblical fulfillment in Rembrandt's famous portrayal of a loving couple, called The Jewish Bride.Marilyn Aronberg Lavin is known for her fundamental work on the history of mural decoration in the churches of Italy, and is the recipient of the coveted Morey Award for Distinguished Scholarship from the College Art Association. Irving Lavin, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, is best known for his work on the Italian Baroque sculpture Gianlorenzo Bernini, but his publications range over a wide span of Western art, from Late Antiquity to Jackson Pollock.

The Liturgy of Love: Images from the "Song of Songs" in the Art of Cimabue, Michelangelo, and Rembrandt (Franklin D. Murphy Lectures XIV)

Lavin, Irving

Aronberg-Lavin, Marilyn

Two essays, originally presented as lectures, explore the poetry and paintings of the prolific Japanese artist Yosa Buson (1716–1784). An innovative freethinker, Buson is now recognized as one of the most remarkable artists of the 18th century and a prominent figure in Japan's cultural history. This book explores the ways by which Yosa Buson portrayed a realm of profound beauty and rich invention. Buson moved effortlessly between visual and verbal systems of expression, creating both paintings and poetry of lyrical beauty. The text focuses on a selection of works from the last phase of his career to elucidate the ways in which Buson’s poetic and pictorial sensibilities were intertwined.

Mynah Birds and Flying Rocks: Word and Image in the Art of Yosa Buson (Franklin D. Murphy Lectures, XVIII)

Rosenfield, John M.

Yosa, Buson

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