LECTURE: Copies and Copying in Japanese Culture: Calligraphy, Painting, and Architecture

Copies and Copying in Japanese Culture:
Calligraphy, Painting, and Architecture

Yoshiake Shimizu., Ph.D.
Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology
Princeton University

Wednesday, October 10
Cook-Douglass Lecture Halls Room 110
4:00 - 5:15


The evolution of a given medium of art or a discipline
of design never occurs in isolation. Instead, there
is a continuous exchange across all the creative
practices about social concerns and critical positions
expressed through a language of lines, shapes, and
forms. In this talk, Yoshiake Shimizu, the Marquand
Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University,
will share his observations on the interrelationships
between painting, calligraphy, and architecture in
Japanese art.

Professor Shimizu specializes in Japanese and Chinese
painting and calligraphy. He received his B.A. in
Art History from Harvard, an M.A. in Art History
from the University of Kansas and, M.F.A. and Ph.D.
in Art and Archaeology from Princeton. He has taught
at University of California at Berkeley, University
of Heidelberg, and Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto,
and has been a Curator of Japanese Art at the Freer
Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
DC, and Guest Curator, National Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC. Earlier this year, he was co-curator
of "Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan"
at the Japan Society in New York. Beyond presenting
the traditions of Zen Buddhist figure painting in
medieval Japan, it introduced a shift the thinking
about Zen paintings. His publications include: Japanese Ink Paintings (with Carolyn Wheelwright);
Masters of Japanese Calligraphy (with John
Rosenfield); and Japan: The Shaping of Daimyo
Culture, 1185-1868.