Kaigetsudô Dohan. Courtesan Playing with a Cat, about 1715. Clarence Buckingham Collection.
Scholar Adam L. Kern, University of Wisconsin-Madison, explores the influence of Japanese woodblock prints from the Edo period on contemporary manga artists. This lecture is presented as a complement to the exhibition Painting the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Masterpieces from the Weston Collection, opening November 4.
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About the Speaker
Adam L. Kern (アダム•カーン) is professor of Japanese Literature and Visual Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned a PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University, where he was also on the faculty for nearly a decade.
His significant experiences in Japan (apart from research affiliations with the University of Kyoto, the University of Tokyo, and the National Institute of Japanese Literature) include an editorial internship in the manga division of Kōdansha Publishers, a stint as a staff reporter for a major metropolitan newspaper (Kyoto Shimbun), and the day student radicals set the roof of his boarding house on fire.
His books include A Kamigata Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Metropolitan Centers, 1600–1750, edited by Sumie Jones and Adam L. Kern (University of Hawai’i Press, under contract); The Penguin Book of Haiku (London: Penguin Classics, 2018); and Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyōshi of Edo Japan (Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2006).
Sponsors
This program is presented in partnership with the Chicago Humanities Festival.
The Richard Gray Visual Art Series recognizes a significant gift from founding CHF board member Richard Gray.
