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50 Jahre Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens

Celebrating Fifty Years of East Asian Art History at the University of Zurich

1970 hielt Professor Helmut Brinker die erste Vorlesung zur Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens an der Universität Zürich und legte somit den Grundstein für das nachfolgende, bisher halbe Jahrhundert der Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens als akademische Disziplin an der Universität Zürich. In dieser Zeit erarbeitete und realisierte die Abteilung für Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens (KGOA) mit Hunderten von Studierenden und Dutzenden von Doktorierenden zahlreiche Museumsausstellungen und internationale Symposien. Das grosse Jubiläum des 50-jährigen Bestehens feiert die KGOA in diesem Jahr mit zahlreichen Aktivitäten. Das Institutskolloquium bietet hierbei eine Plattform für Vorträge renommierter Experten der japanischen, chinesischen und koreanischen Kunst zu den Schlüsselaspekten der Disziplin.

 

The first lecture in East Asian art history at the University of Zurich was held by Professor Helmut Brinker in 1970, thereby inaugurating half a century of courses on East Asian art history at the university. During this time, the Section for East Asian Art (KGOA) has worked with hundreds of students, dozens of doctoral students, as well as numerous museum exhibitions and international symposia. The KGOA will celebrate this year with numerous activities, including this institute colloquium, which will use this opportunity to invite leading experts on Japanese, Chinese, and Korean art to Zurich to give lectures on key aspects of the discipline.

Institutskolloquium

Das Institutskolloquium findet wie folgt statt:

Zeit: Mittwoch 18:15–19:45 (siehe Daten im Programm unten)
(Der Vortrag am 16. Dezember findet 12:15–13:45 statt)
Ort: Onlineveranstaltung

Fragen können an Sabine Bradel (sabine.bradel@khist.uzh.ch) gesendet werden.
 


Programm

Mittwoch, 19. Februar 2020
Prof. Dr. Hans Thomsen, Universität Zürich
Celebrating 50 Years of East Asian Art History in Switzerland
RAA-G-15 (Rämistrasse 59, 8001 Zürich)
 


Mittwoch, 04. März 2020
Prof. Dr. Lukas Nickel, Universität Wien
Die frühesten Darstellungen des Buddha in China
RAA-G-15 (Rämistrasse 59, 8001 Zürich)

Die überaus reiche chinesische Überlieferung gibt vielfach Auskunft über die Anfänge des Buddhismus in China. Sie entwirft ein Bild des Eindringens des Buddhismus, das mit einer kaiserlichen Botschaft nach Indien im 1. Jh. u.Z. beginnt und über die folgenden Jahrhunderte stetig zunimmt und sich im ganzen Land verbreitet. 

Der Vortrag wird archäologischen Spuren nachgehen, die die frühe Buddhistische Religion in China hinterliess. Vor allem die ersten Abbildungen der Buddhaikone erlauben einen Einblick in die frühen Stadien der Religion. Dabei zeigt sich, dass archäologische Quellen zahlreiche Informationen bieten, die die schriftliche Überlieferung ergänzen und korrigieren können. 

Flyer zum Vortrag (PDF, 1 MB)
 


Mittwoch, 07. Oktober 2020
Prof. Dr. JP Park, University of Oxford
Rescuing Art History from the Nation: Late Chosŏn Korea between Europe and Edo Japan
(Vortrag findet online statt)

For the past couple of decades, a growing number of historians of Korean art has investigated artistic connections between late Chosŏn Korea and Europe. By pointing out the acceptance of European painterly techniques such as one-point perspectives, chiaroscuro, camera obscura, repoussoir, and visual artifice taken up by late Chosŏn elites, recent scholarship has explained how and why early modern Korean artists were able to adopt and learn the new styles and programs of Western art, which were based upon a completely different pictorial tradition. This research path may itself not pose any analytical disparities, but it rides on a certain level of historical nuance: Even though late Chosŏn was known to be a period of high conservatism and isolation, the seeds of modernity and globalization were nonetheless explored and largely embraced by its artists and critics. But the unbiased and unprejudiced minds of late Chosŏn artists celebrated in modern scholarship have not been equally illuminated when it comes to their relationship to the Japanese art of the time. By introducing evidence that testifies to the late Chosŏn public’s active interest in Japanese art, this paper will point to the neglected exchange of art and ideas between early modern Korea and Japan, and expose how age-old academic conventions and nationalism remain firmly fixed in the study of East Asian art history.

Flyer zum Vortrag (PDF, 284 KB)
 


Mittwoch, 21. Oktober 2020
Em. Prof. Dr. Matthi Forrer
Dating Hokusai's Great Wave and his Fuji Series
(Vortrag findet online statt)

Katsushika Hokusai’s The Great Wave, also known under its full name of Under the Wave off Kanagawa, is arguably the most famous example of Japanese art. It was created around 1831 as part of a series of woodblock prints called Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji (Fugaku sanū-rokkei). The breathtaking composition of this woodblock print is said to have inspired Debussy’s La Mer and Rilke’s Der Berg, and it has become an icon of world art. Hokusai cleverly played with perspective to make Japan’s grandest mountain appear as a small triangular mound within the hollow of the cresting wave, in a landscape created using a palette of indigo and imported Prussian blue.
Em. Prof. Dr. Matthi Forrer has spent a lifetime studying Japanese woodblock prints, including the works of Hokusai. He has written extensively on Japanese prints and on Hokusai. In this process, he became the most famous Western print scholar. In this talk, he will be discussing the Great Wave and the Mt. Fuji series from which it came, indicating, among other points, the problems of dating this iconic series. For anyone interested in Japanese art, this is not an opportunity to be missed.

Flyer zum Vortrag (PDF, 347 KB)
 


Mittwoch, 04. November 2020
Prof. Dr. Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik, Univesität Ljubljana
Cosmology in Han Grave Art
(Vortrag findet online statt)

The excavations of tombs with murals from the Han dynasty (206BC–220CE) brought to light a great quantity of very rich archaeological material which has contributed considerably to our knowledge of how the Han people viewed the afterlife and their place in the cosmos, and how this view was reflected in their posthumous, underground home.
The present lecture will therefore focus on the reflection of cosmology in the architectural and pictorial design of the Han tombs with murals. We will discuss how the Chinese understand the cosmos, its shape and its functioning, how did they divide the sky and how all these ideas reflected in their construction of the Han tombs with murals. We will thus step by step build a Han dynasty tomb to construct a micro-cosmos.

Flyer zum Vortrag (PDF, 369 KB)
 


Mittwoch, 02. Dezember 2020
Prof. Dr. Beatrix Mecsi, Eötvös-Loránd-Universität (ELTE) Budapest
Bodhidharma in East Asian Art and Popular Culture
(Vortrag findet online statt)

According to tradition the founder of Chan or meditational Buddhism, Bodhidharma, originated from India, yet his legend and first representations are more typically associated with China and his legendary figure is frequently seen in the visual art and popular culture of the East Asian countries. In my talk I focus on the visual representations of Bodhidharma as they became popular in Korea and Japan, attempting to show the basic differences in the popularization of the visual images of Bodhidharma in these countries, focusing mainly on the visual appearance and iconography. The power of the image is seen in the commercialization of representations of Bodhidharma, particularly in Japan, where this practice occurred much earlier than in Korea and developed different traditions compared to those in China, where the legend came from.

Flyer zum Vortrag (PDF, 300 KB)
 


Montag, 14. Dezember 2020, 18:15–19:45
Dr. Misa Sugahara, Universität Zürich
Gegenbilder als Schlüssel einer singulären Wahrnehmung der Geschichte—Fotografie von Miyako Ishiuchi
(Vortrag findet online statt)

Der Vortrag befasst sich mit der Frage, ob und wie Fotografien historischer oder persönlicher Ereignisse jenseits der Sensationsfotografie und ihrer affektiven Wirkung Geschichte abbilden können. Diese Frage wird mithilfe des Suchbegriffs Gegenbilder am Beispiel der Arbeiten Miyako Ishiuchis (*1947) diskutiert. Ishiuchi fotografiert verletzte Körper oder Gegenstände des täglichen Gebrauchs von Verstorbenen, welche ein Körpergedächtnis evozieren. Unter Berücksichtigung der Folgen der Katastrophe in Hiroshima und in Bezugnahme auf bekannte historische Bildbeispiele, werden die Bedeutung dieser spezifischen Körperlichkeit diskutiert und (inter-)mediale Strategien vorgestellt.

Flyer zum Vortrag (PDF, 272 KB)
 


Mittwoch, 16. Dezember 2020, 12:15–13:45
I.K.H. Prinzessin Akiko von Mikasa von Japan, Kyoto Sangyo University
The Art of Copying: Creating Reproductions for the West
(Vortrag findet online statt)

This paper focuses on the role of reproductions of Japanese works in the collection of the British Museum, such as fine reproductions of the Kudara Kannon and the wall painting of the Golden Hall of Hōryū-ji temple. These works played a crucial role in introducing authentic Japanese art to the West, but this role has been overlooked in current scholarship because they are not ‘originals’. This paper aims to examine the close cultural interactions between Britain and Japan through the role of reproductions and the activities of Japanese art specialists of the two nations.

Flyer zum Vortrag (PDF, 188 KB)
 


Die öffentliche Vortragsreihe wird organisiert von der Abteilung Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität Zürich) mit Unterstützung der Swiss Japanese Chamber of Commerce (SJCC) und der Schweizerisch-Japanischen Gesellschaft (SJG).

Weiterführende Informationen

50JahreKGOA

50 Jahre KGOA

Yi Taek-gyun, Bücher und Gelehrtenaccessoires, Ende 19. Jh., Wandschirm, Tusche und Farbe auf Seide, Cleveland Museum of Art. (Ausschnitt)