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Monday | 06:15 PM | Re-creating the Past The Landscape Paintings by Sesshu (1420-1506) in the style of Xia Gui (1195-1224) Prof. Shimao Arata, Gakushūin University, Tokyo (Japan), Department of Philosophy In landscape painting of the Muromachi period (15th c.), Japanese painters were eager to follow the style of Xia Gui, a court painter of Southern Song dynasty China (1127-1279). Two masterpieces by Sesshu, one of the representative Zen monk painters of this age, also present this same Xia Gui mode. However, they do not resemble what we now identify as authentic works of Xia Gui. What Sesshu referenced was not ‘The Southern Song Xia Gui’ but rather works attributed to him from the later Ming dynasty (1368-1644). It might seem counterintuitive for our current ‘Art history of authentic works’ that masterpieces of the Muromachi period were born from the interpretation of later copies or fakes of Sothern Song paintings. In this talk, I will focus on what I refer to as the generative system of East Asian painting, particularly the relationship among lineal affiliation, historiography, and the (re)creation of a new painting. Address CATS – Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies, Gebäude 4400 Raum: R.400.02.12 Voßstraße 2 69115 Heidelberg Organizer Institut für Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens Homepage Organizer Contact Institut für Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens Contact URL |