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Nature in Asian art, 2002 series

From landscape to bird-and-flower painting in East Asian art to nature motifs in architecture, carpets and painting in South Asian art.

 

Term One

  • 5 March - Notions of Naturalism in Eastern and Western art 
    Edmund Capon, Director, Art Gallery of New South Wales
       
  • 12 March - Sacred mountains in Chinese art 
    Liu Yang, Curator of Chinese Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales
       
  • 19 March - Spring flowers, Autumn grasses: the spirit of nature in Chinese and Japanese art in the National Gallery of Victoria collection 
    Mae Anna Pang, Senior Curator of Asian Art, National Gallery of Victoria 
     
  • 9 April - Untrammelled spirit bamboo in East Asian art 
    Ann MacArthur, Co-ordinator of Asian Programs, Art Gallery of New South Wales
       
  • 16 April - Seasons: The Japanese passion 
    Chiaki Ajioka, Curator of Japanese Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales
     
  • 23 April - Nature through jade 
    Liu Yang
     
  • 30 April - Haiga: imaging haiku 
    Chiaki Ajioka
     
  • 7 May - Nature and the Chinese scholar-recluse
    Mae Anna Pang
      
  • 14 May - Gardens in China  
    Peter Valder, author of The Garden Plants of China (1999) and Gardens in China (2002)
     
  • 21 May - The origins of the Japanese garden tradition 
    Peter Armstrong, Lecturer, Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney
     
  • 28 May - The resonance of nature in Chinese calligraphy 
    Edmund Capon
     
  • 4 June - Coolness in summer, warmth in winter: responding to nature in Japanese tea  
    Ann MacArthur
     
  • 11 June - Revision  (Note: Queen’s Birthday 10 June)
     
  • 18 June - 100 views of Mount Fuji 
    Timothy Clark, Assistant Keeper of Japanese Antiquities, The British Museum

  

Term two

  • 30 July - Yakshi and Yaksha: nature deities in South Asian art 
    Haema Sivanesan, Assistant Curator of Asian Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales
     
  • 6 August - Flowers in the desert: an introduction to the tenets of Islamic art 
    Craig Judd, Art Historian
     
  • 13 August - Plant and animal forms in Middle Eastern rugs and textiles 
    Ross Langlands, Nomadic Rug Traders
      
  • 20 August - Songs of the seasons: the Baramasa tradition in Rajput painting  
    Haema Sivanesan
      
  • 27 August - Nature imagery in Tibetan art  
    David Templeman, Independent scholar
     
  • 3 September - The influence of nature on Indian textiles 
    Joyce Burnard, journalist, textile historian and author of Chintz and Cotton India’s Textile Gift to the World (1994)
     
  • 10 September - Source, river, world: the river of a thousand lingams and cosmogonic symbolism at Angkor 
    Michael Tawa
     
  • 17 September - Facile nature and 'cultural transcendentalism': an anthropologist reads the works of Simryn Gill  
    Yao Souchou, Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney
     
  • 24 September - Nature and narrative in Southeast Asian art  
    Robyn Maxwell, Senior Lecturer, Department of Art History, Australian National University, and Senior Curator of Asian Art, National Gallery of Australia
      
  • 8 October (Note: Labour Day 7 October) - Nature and environment in contemporary Southeast Asian art 
    Julie Ewington, Head Curator of Australian Art, Queensland Art Gallery
     
  • 15 October - Geoffrey Bawa: a Sri Lankan orchestration of nature and the arts 
    Jennifer Taylor, Adjunct Professor in Architecture, School of Design and the Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology
     
  • 22 October - Revision
     
  • 29 October - Slide test

  

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