MCLC: Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Vivian Li <vli at umich.edu>
Subject: Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930
**************************************************************

Dear all,

We are happy to announce the scholarly symposium at the University of
Michigan Museum of Art this May, to coincide with the opening of the new
exhibition Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi: Beijing 1930.

For information of the exhibition, please see UMMA's website:

http://www.umma.umich.edu/view/exhibitions/2013-beijing1930.php

Isamu Noguchi/Qi Baishi: And Other Inspiring Encounters In and Beyond
Modern Asian Art

Symposium in conjunction with the exhibition Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi:
Beijing 1930

Saturday, May 18, 9 AM - 5:00 PM
Helmut Stern Auditorium
University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)
525 South State Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Free and open to public

 
In conjunction with the opening of the exhibition Isamu Noguchi and Qi
Baishi: Beijing 1930, UMMA presents a one-day symposium on the
significance and legacy of the creative relationship between the
Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi and the Chinese ink painter Qi
Baishi. As Noguchi¹s Peking Drawings from this period dramatically
demonstrate, this collaboration was far more complex and unpredictable
than can be understood by the over-determined binary framework of
Japonisme in Euro-America and the Westernization of culture in East Asia.
The drawings are one striking manifestation of the broad range of
encounters between different positions within and beyond modern Asian
visual cultures that proliferated throughout the late nineteenth and
twentieth centuries.  This symposium will bring together an impressive
group of scholars of Asian art history to explore a diverse range of the
kinds of inventions catalyzed by modern encounters such as that between
Isamu Noguchi and Qi Baishi in Beijing in 1930.

 
Participants in the symposium include David Clarke (University of Hong
Kong), Bert Winther-Tamaki (University of California, Irvine), Jo-Anne
Birnie Danzker (Frye Art Museum, Seattle), Yasuko Tsuchikane (Parsons The
New School for Design), Christina Spiker (University of California,
Irvine), Jason Steuber (Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida) and
Natsu Oyobe (UMMA).

For questions, please send messages to David Choberka (dchoberk at umich.edu).

Schedule

9:00 ­ 9:30
Coffee/tea
 
9:30 ­ 9:45
Welcome remarks
Joseph Rosa (Director, UMMA)
Jenny Dixon (Director, The Noguchi Museum)

9:45-10:00
Introduction to the exhibition Isamu Noguchi/Qi Baishi/Beijing 1930
Natsu Oyobe (UMMA)
 
10:00 ­ 11:15  Session 1
Artistic Encounters between China and the West from the Eighteenth to the
Twentieth Century
David Clarke (University of Hong Kong)

Grabbism: 1930
Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker (Frye Art Museum)

Response by Celeste Brusati (University of Michigan)
 
11:15 ­ 11:30 break
 
11:30 ­ 12:45  Session 2
Untangling a "Hairy" Encounter: Making Sense of Ainu Representation at the
World's Fair
Christina Spiker (University of California, Irvine)

Artists Abroad East and West: Some Early Twentieth Century Encounters
Jason Steuber (Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida)
 
Response by Kevin Carr (University of Michigan)
 
12:45 ­ 2:30    Lunch and exhibition viewing
 
2:30 ­ 3:45      Session 3
Isamu Noguchi: A Sculptor's Brush with Ink
Bert Winther-Tamaki (University of California, Irvine)

Invention of "Traditional" and "International" in Post-World War Two
Japanese Ceramics: the Picasso Boom and Koyama Fujio
Yasuko Tsuchikane (Parsons The New School for Design)

Response by Alex Potts (University of Michigan)
 
3:45 ­ 4:15      Coffee/tea break
 
4:15­ 5:00       Discussion moderated by Bert Winther-Tamaki

Natsu Oyobe, Ph.D.
Associate Curator of Asian Art
University of Michigan Museum of Art
+1 734 647 0523 <tel:%2B1%20734%20647%200523> phone
+1 734 764 2540 <tel:%2B1%20734%20764%202540> fax

525 South State Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1354
www.umma.umich.edu <http://www.umma.umich.edu/>
www.facebook.com/ummamuseum <http://www.facebook.com/ummamuseum>