SPRING 2009

2010 Franklin D. Murphy Lecturer

Toshio Watanabe
Director of the Research Centre for Transnational Art,
Identity and Nation
University of the Arts, London

Spring 2010 Murphy Seminar:
Modernity and Identity of Transnational Japan: 1850-1950

Lectures:

"Modernity and Censorship: Nude Painting Controversy in Meiji Japan (1868-1912)"

Thursday, April 1, 5:30 pm
Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium

"Modern Japanese Gardens in a Transnational Context"

Thursday, April 8, 6:00 pm
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

2009 Franklin D. Murphy Lecturer

Christopher M. S. Johns
Norman and Roselea Goldberg Professor of History of Art
Vanderbilt University


"China and the Church: Chinoiserie and the Roman Connection"

Thursday, April 15, 5:30 pm
Spencer Museum of Art Auditorium



"The Art and Visual Culture of European Chinoiserie"

Sunday, April 18, 2:30 pm
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art