The Unfathomable Art of Sesson (Lecture by Professor Yukio Lippit)
Even after a century of prolific scholarship, the life and work of the monk-painter Sesson Shūkei (ca.1492-1577) remain enigmatic. This January 12, 2021, lecture by Professor Yukio Lippit, Jeffrey T. Chambers and Andrea Okamura Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, addresses questions of artistic geography and pictorial meaning through a study of one of his most famous works, Dragon and Tiger, in the Cleveland Museum of Art.