Lecture: Hokusai: Mad About Painting (Dr. Frank Feltens)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8PbBzM06cQ In this July 28, 2020, presentation, Dr. Frank Feltens, Japan Foundation Assistant Curator of Japanese Art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, introduces the current exhibition Hokusai: Mad About Painting, featuring the renowned works by Hokusai assembled by one of America’s greatest collectors of Asian art, Charles Lang Freer. This exhibition presents a new focus on Hokusai’s…

Lecture: Sacred Journeys and Institutional Rivalries in the Fuji Sankei Mandara (Prof. Talia Andrei)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yn0OT71HdE In this January, 15, 2020, lecture, Talia Andrei, Assistant Professor or Art History and East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University, speaks on sankei mandara (pilgrimage mandalas), which are large-scale, boldly colored paintings that depict sacred places and the roads leading to them. The genre appeared in late-medieval Japan and served as marketing material for temples and shrines in need of financial support after a…