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THE FREER HOUSE AND THE DIA SUPPORT
ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH
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present a...
LIVE DISCUSSION
with Edo Avant Garde
filmmaker, Linda Hoaglund,
and Japanese art expert,
Professor Yukio Lippit, Harvard.
Moderated by DIA curators,
Katherine Kasdorf & Elliot Wilhelm.
May 20, 6:30pm EDT.
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Linda Hoaglund. Yukio Lippit, Ph.D. |
The Freer House, Wayne State University, is joining with the Friends of Asian Arts and Cultures (FAAC) and the Friends of the Detroit Film Theater (FDFT) at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) to host a special discussion with Edo Avant Garde film director, Linda Hoaglund, and Japanese art expert, Professor Yukio Lippit, in conversation with DIA curators, Katherine Kasdorf and Elliot Wilhelm. Yukio Lippit will highlight the unique role Charles Lang Freer and Detroit played in introducing Japanese art to America. This event will be livestreamed on the DIA's Facebook page and YouTube channel on May 20, 6:30pm EDT. Registrants for the Q&A will receive a viewing reminder on May 19.
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Katherine Kasdorf, Ph.D.,
Arts of Asia and the Islamic World, DIA.
Elliot Wilhelm, Curator of Film, Detroit Film Theater, DIA.
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Edo Avant Garde is available for free home viewing with registration. A link and password to access the film will be provided to each registrant for use anytime now through May 23. Viewing instructions will also be emailed to each registrant within 24 hours.
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Edo Avant Garde reveals the story of how Japanese artists of the explosively creative Edo period (1615-1868) pioneered innovative approaches to painting that many in the West associate most readily with so-called modern art of the 20th century. Through groundbreaking interviews with scholars, priests, art dealers, and collectors in Japan and the U.S., the film explores how the concepts of abstraction, minimalism, and surrealism are all to be found in Edo painting. The documentary highlights the role of Detroit's Charles Lang Freer as a pioneering collector of Edo period Japanese art. Watch the intriguing trailer HERE. |
LIVE DISCUSSION
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
LINDA HOAGLUND is a bilingual film director and producer who has subtitled 200 Japanese films and translated works by Japan's most esteemed artists. In 2014, she completed The Wound and The Gift, a film about rescued animals told through an ancient Japanese fable. Previously she created a trilogy of feature documentary films relating to the Pacific War and postwar US-Japan relations: Things Left Behind (2012) explores the transformative power of photographs of clothing left behind by those who perished in Hiroshima, taken by Ishiuchi Miyako. ANPO: Art X War (2010) tells the story of resistance to US military bases in Japan, through a treasure trove of paintings, photographs, film clips and interviews with the artists who created them. She also produced and wrote Wings of Defeat (2007), about Kamikaze pilots who survived WWII and tell the truth about a military that could not accept defeat.
YUKIO LIPPIT, Ph.D., Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University and Freer House Board of Advisors Member, received his B.A. (1993) in Literature from Harvard University and his M.A. (1998) and Ph.D. (2003) in Art and Archaeology from Princeton University. He specializes in Japanese painting of the medieval and early modern periods. His book, Painting of the Realm: The Kano House of Painters in 17th-Century Japan, explores the ways in which attendant painters to the Tokugawa shogun developed a genealogical mode of painting that conditioned emerging historical views of Japanese art. Painting of the Realm was awarded both the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award and the John Whitney Hall Book Prize. Dr. Lippit is also active in the museum field, having curated exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art and the Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery.
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KATHERINE KASDORF, Associate Curator of Arts of Asia and the Islamic World, DIA, collaborated with colleagues on the reinstallation of the DIA's Asian collection, opening new galleries of Chinese, Korean, Japanese, South & Southeast Asian, and Buddhist art in November 2018. She received her Ph.D. in South Asian art history from Columbia University in 2013. In addition, she serves on the Editorial Board of the Bulletin of the DIA and works with the membership support auxiliary group, Friends of Asian Arts and Cultures (FAAC), who are committed to fostering understanding and appreciation of the diverse visual and material cultures of Asia, the Ancient Middle East, and the Islamic World.
ELLIOT WILHELM has been the Curator of Film at the Detroit Film Theater, DIA, since it began its film series in 1974. He frequented the various movie palaces in Detroit throughout his youth, which fueled his love for film. During his tenure at the DFT, Mr. Wilhelm's curation has inspired a large and devoted membership community. He has also organized several restoration projects, including reupholstering the theater's seats and adding digital high-definition projection. He works with the membership support auxiliary group, Friends of the Detroit Film Theatre (FDFT), who are dedicated to cultivating awareness, appreciation, understanding, and knowledge of the cinematic medium and its history.
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