Fri, 10 Nov
|Stoke D'Abernon
JAPANESE ART AND THE WEST: FROM NAMBAN TO JAPONAISERIE
This morning of lectures and discussion will provide a broad introduction to the arts of Japan and historic encounters between Japan and the West.
Time & location
10 Nov 2023, 10:00 – 11 Nov 2023, 13:00
Stoke D'Abernon, Cobham Rd, Stoke D'Abernon, Great Bookham, Cobham KT11 3QQ, UK
About the event
It will focus on episodes of artistic interaction and exchange beginning with the 16th century depictions of Portuguese traders and missionaries in namban screen paintings to the Dutch presence in Japan during the Edo Period.
With the re-opening of Japan to the West in the mid-19th century, such artistic encounters intensified as ukiyo-e, Japanese woodblock prints, and other traditional artefacts poured into Europe and America and came to transform the visual vocabulary of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionist painters.
Professor Marie Conte-Helm OBE is an established Lecturer of The Arts Society with a BA in History of Art and an MA in Asian Art. She has most recently served as Executive Director of the UK-Japan 21st Century Group and as Visiting Professor at Northumbria University.
She is currently a Member of the Board of Governors of the University for the Creative Arts and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She was Director General of the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation from 1999-2011 and has held senior academic positions at various UK universities.
She is widely published and has lectured throughout the UK and abroad. She is also an experienced cruise speaker and a resident historian with cruise companies, lecturing on many aspects of Asian Art and East-West Encounters. She was awarded an OBE in the 2011 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to UK-Japan educational and cultural relations, and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette by the Government of Japan in 2019.
PROGRAMME FOR THE MORNING:
10.00 am Registration and Welcome (coffee / tea available)
10.30 am Lecture I
11.30 am Break for coffee / tea and biscuits
12 noon Lecture II
1.00 pm Approximate end of Special Interest Morning
TICKET COST:
£22.00 per person (two lectures, coffee / tea on arrival and during the interval)
VENUE:
THE MENUHIN HALL
Cobham Rd, Stoke D'Abernon, Great Bookham, Cobham KT11 3QQ
TO BOOK:
Email: esaartssociety2020@gmail.com