The Katsura Village in the Modern Imagination
Dr. Jonathan M. Reynolds
Wednesday, January 19, 2022.
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM (Eastern Time)
Online via Zoom
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The 17th Century imperial villa at Katsura has loomed large in the modern imagination. It has by turns been praised as a masterpiece of Japan’s rich artistic heritage and been embraced as a precocious expression of modernist aesthetics ideals. Photography has played an especially important role in making this at times remote architecture and garden complex accessible to a world audience. This talk will discuss some of the most influential photographic interpretations of Katsura, paying special attention to the two remarkable and distinctive portfolios produced by the Japanese photographer Ishimoto Yasuhiro.
Jonathan M. Reynolds is Professor of Art History at Barnard College and Columbia University. His research and teaching focuson the history of modern Japanese architecture and Japanese photography. His publications include: Allegories of Time and Space:Japanese Identity in Photography and Architecture (2015) and Maekawa Kunio and the Emergence of Japanese Modernist Architecture (2001).
This program is brought to you by the Asian Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh and made possible with the generous support of the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership