Wednesday, November 3, 2010

The folding screen has been used in monumental Japanese paintings for more than twelve centuries. Over time styles have varied; however certain elements reappear. In this visual presentation, Melissa Rinne, Associate Curator at the Asian Art Museum, will look at examples from the museum’s current exhibit “Beyond Golden Clouds: Five Centuries of Japanese Screens.” Dr. Patrick Lloyd Hatcher, Kiriyama Distinguished Fellow at the USF Center for the Pacific Rim, will moderate.

Melissa M. Rinne is Associate Curator of Japanese Art at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Educated at Brown University, Kyoto City University of Arts, and Kyoto University, she lived in Japan for nearly sixteen years, researching Japanese textiles and working on the staff of two Japanese national museums. She is the author of Masters of Bamboo: Artistic Lineages in the Lloyd Cotsen Japanese Basket Collection, and a co-author of the 2009 exhibition catalogue of the Hosokawa collection, Lords of the Samurai: Legacy of a Daimyo Family.

Location:
USF Main Campus, Fromm Hall
Parker Street at Golden Gate Avenue
San Francisco, CA
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Date & Time:
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
5:45 pm: Program

Cost:
Free and open to the public. For reservations please call the USF Center for the Pacific Rim’s Event Registration Line at (415) 422-6828.

This event is hosted by the USF Center for the Pacific Rim and cosponsored by the Japan Policy Research Institute at the USF Center for the Pacific Rim and the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning.