Arts of Japan, 2003

Moving from contemporary culture back in time to classical art with insights into Japanese culture through installation art, animation, painting and prints, kabuki, music and film.

Term One

• 4 March - Introduction
  Jackie Menzies, Head Curator of Asian Art
   
• 11 March - Love for Sale: Contemporary Japanese Art
  Judy Annear, Senior Curator of Photography
   
• 18 March - Anime and Visual Culture
  Michael Hill, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology, Sydney
   
• 25 March - The Zen and the Zany: Contemporary Japanese Fashion
  Roger Leong, Curator, educator and consultant of 19th and 20th century fashion, textile, object and theatre design
     
• 1 April - From Hanga to Manga: Australia in Japanese Art
  Alison Broinowski, Visiting Fellow, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University, Author The Yellow Lady: Australian Impressions of Asia
   
• 8 April - Workshops
  Ukiyoe or Ikebana
   
• 29 April - Workshops
  Ukiyoe or Ikebana
   
• 6 May-  Metaphor: Representing the Unrepresentable in Contemporary Japanese Architecture
  Jennifer Taylor, Adjunct Professor in Architecture, School of Design and the Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology
     
• 13 May - Japan Encounters Its West: Meiji Painting
  John Clark, Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Theory, University of Sydney
   
• 20 May - Sumo: The Great Tradition and the Uncertain Future
  Peter Armstrong, Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney
   
• 27 May - From Sirens to Super-Heroes: Edo Period Kabuki Theatre
  Anne Phillips, PhD candidate, School of History, University of New South Wales
     
• 3 June - Sex in the Floating World: The Erotic Pictures of Edo Period Japan
  Gary Hickey, Lecturer, School of Fine Arts, Classics and Anthropology, University of Melbourne
   
• 10 June - Revision

Term 2

• 29 July - Swords as Fine Art
  Barry Thomas, Sword Collector
   
• 5 August - Seasons in Classical Japanese Literature
  Hiroko Kobayashi, Honorary Associate, Department of Japanese and Korean Studies, University of Sydney
     
• 12 August - Screens and Screen Poems of Japan’s Courtly Culture
  Yoshiaki Shimizu, Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology and Director, Program in Chinese and Japanese Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
     
• 19 August - Seasons and the Shakuhachi: A Traditional Bamboo Flute in Nature
  Riley Lee, musicologist and shakuhachi Dai Shihan
   
• 26 August - Chinese or Japanese? How two East Asian cultures interpret the seasons in painting
  Haruki Yoshida, art historian
   
• 2 September - The Transfigured Landscape: Japanese Garden Design Through Fourteen Centuries Newell Platten, co-author The Lure of the Japanese Garden 9 September Picture Scrolls: The Art of Storytelling
  Chiaki Ajioka, Curator of Japanese Art
   
• 16 September - Nature in Japanese Film
  Freda Freiberg, Japanese film scholar
   
• 23 September-  Workshop Kimono or Film
   
• 7 October - Workshop Kimono or Film
   
• 14 October - Maki-e, Sprinkling of Gold: An Introduction to Japanese Lacquer
  Lesley Kehoe, Director, Kehoe Galleries, Melbourne
   
• 28 October - Revision
   
• 4 November - Slide test