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Now Available: Impressions 43 Part One (2022)

Impressions 43 Part One of a Double Issue (2022) has been mailed to members! This issue examines the life and work of the potter Kitaōji Rosanjin from three viewpoints. Monika Bincsik and John Weber have fun discussing the Weber kimono collection. Julia Meech introduces textiles acquired by the famed print collector Louis Ledoux. Kendall Brown explains the marketing of prints by Ohara Koson. We pay…
February 23, 2022
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Lecture: Avant-Garde Calligraphy and Zen between Postwar Japan, Europe, and the United States (Dr. Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer)

https://youtu.be/Ka66JoDCORM (This talk recording is audio only!) On February 9, 2022, Dr. Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer presented a talk on postwar Japanese calligraphy. Based on her recent book Bokujinkai: Japanese Calligraphy and the Postwar Avant-Garde,  she introduced the Kyoto-based avant-garde calligraphy group named Bokujinkai, and explored their international trajectories. Bokujinkai—or “People of the Ink”—was a group formed in 1952 by five calligraphers: Morita Shiryū, Inoue Yūichi, Eguchi…
February 13, 2022