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The Living Image: Mythologies of Artistic Production during Japan's Edo Period - Timon Screech |2018

View the accompanying PowerPoint slideshow (pdf): https://www.uvic.ca/research/centres/... This Albert Hung Chao Hong lecture was presented as part of CAPI's "The Nonhuman in Japanese Culture and Society: Spirits, Animals, Technology" conference, which took place at the University of Victoria, Canada, September 21-24th, 2018. The Albert Hung Chao Hong lecture series is named in honour of Dr. Hung, a Chinese entrepreneur who received an Honourary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Victoria in May 2005 (more about the Hung lecture series: https://www.uvic.ca/research/centres/...) ABOUT THE SPEAKER Timon Screech is a professor of the history of art at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He is a specialist in the art and culture of early modern Japan. ABOUT THE TALK Since early times in East Asia there have been tales of images that come to life. The feat is attributed to the creative power of the maker. The first such stories were about dragons, that is, forms that we cannot know. Then tales were made about painted tigers, horses, or people. Commenters considered what might happen to such images. A dragon would dissipate into air, but how could a painted animal or person continue its life within the human world? Would encountering once-painted entities be thrilling or terrifying? Should they be negated, returned to the status of picture, and if so, how? This presentation discusses such issues in the context of the Edo Period - a time of vast picture-making in paint and print, and also a time when European mythologies of artistic production entered Japan.