Timon Screech / The Shogun’s Silver Telescope: Art in the First English Encounters w Japan 1611-1616 скачать в хорошем качестве

Timon Screech / The Shogun’s Silver Telescope: Art in the First English Encounters w Japan 1611-1616

The University of Sydney’s China Studies Centre, The Power Institute and VisAsia, with support from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, are proud to present the third of our Sydney Asian Art Series talks for 2018, with a lecture by Timon Screech; professor of the history of art at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. ABOUT THE LECTURE In 1611, the East India Company in London planned a voyage to Japan, hoping finally to read that rich and fabled land. An appropriate gift was selected for the Japanese ruler, and when one of the ships duly arrived in 1613, Tokugawa Ieyasu was presented with a large, silver-gilt telescope, in the name of King James. It was the first telescope ever to leave Europe and the first built as a presentation object. Before news of this success was reported home, the English sent another ship, this time loaded with oil paintings and prints. Screech’s talk will investigate the reasons for the Company’s interest in Japan, for the selection of these unexpected items, and for their impact in Japan. 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. In 1985, Timon Screech received a BA in Oriental Studies (Japanese) at the University of Oxford. In 1991, he completed his PhD in art history at Harvard University, since which he has been at SOAS; and he has also been visiting professor at the Universities of Chicago and Heidelberg, and guest researcher at Gakushuin and Waseda universities in Tokyo. He had recently completed a book on the early history of the English East India Company, and its first sailings to Japan (1613–26), and is now writing the Oxford History of Japanese Art. This event took place on 23 August 2018 at the University of Sydney. PRESENTED BY The Sydney Asian Art Series is presented by the University of Sydney’s China Studies Centre, The Power Institute, and VisAsia, with support from the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Sydney Ideas.