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Society for Asian Art Newsletter for Members July-August 2016 No. 4 A Welcome from Our Incoming President As the new SAA President, I want to extend my warmest greetings to the entire SAA family! I’m honored to be given the opportunity to lead such a distinguished organization, and my principal objective will be to continue the Society’s tradition of providing outstanding cultural programs relating to Asian art for our SAA members. Before highlighting upcoming programming, please join me in thanking my predecessor, Linda Lei, for her exemplary leadership during the past two years. I would also like to applaud the important contributions made by our outgoing board members (Rick Beleson, Jeanne Dorward, Mel Hetzel, and Teri Sandison) and welcome our new board members (Melissa Abbe, Margaret Edwards, Pamela Royse, Ehler Spliedt, Kasey Yang, and Carolyn Young). All SAA members can take special pride in celebrating the Asian Art Museum’s 50th anniversary this year because it was a small group of Society members who originally convinced Avery Brundage to donate his collection of Asian art to the city of San Francisco – thereby initiating the creation of what was to become the Asian Art Museum. I suspect that small group would be very pleased to see how the Society has grown and flourished ever since! In light of the Museum’s anniversary, this year we will emphasize programs supporting the Museum’s blockbuster Emperors’ Treasures and Ramayana exhibits. However, regular programs like the Arts of Asia lecture series will continue to achieve high standards by recruiting top scholars – addressing the progression of 19th century to contemporary Asian art (“From Monet to Ai Weiwei: How We Got Here”) this Fall and examining women’s roles (“Women and Asian Art”) this Spring. The SAA’s travel program will also prove exciting with trips planned for places like Japan, India, Houston and San Antonio. The primary goal, however, is to keep you, the SAA audience, interested and stimulated. To that end, please give your input to board members and myself so new programs can be initiated and existing ones improved. Let’s all work together to make a great organization even more extraordinary! Sincerely, Anne Kahn Ewer in the shape of a monk’s cap with poem by Emperor Qianlong carved on the bottom. Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, Ming dynasty, reign of Emperor Xuande (1426–1435). Porcelain with red glaze. National Palace Museum, Taipei, Guci 017764 Lü-1804-30. Photograph © National Palace Museum, Taipei. Glass vase with design of peony blossoms, by the Imperial Workshop, Beijing. Qing dynasty, reign of Emperor Kangxi (1662–1722). Glass with polychrome decoration. National Palace Museum, Taipei, Guci 017588 Lie-360-73. Photograph © National Palace Museum, Taipei. Ritual vessel with phoenix-shaped handles, by the Imperial Workshop, Beijing. Qing dynasty, reign of Emperor Yongzheng (1723–1735). Copper alloy with cloisonné enamel inlays. National Palace Museum, Taipei, Gufa 000116 Lie 427–16. Photograph © National Palace Museum, Taipei. The Society for Asian Art is a support organization for the IN THIS ISSUE Saturday and Sunday, June 25 and 26 Weekend in Monterey at Orientations Saturday, July 2 Society for Asia Art Kunqu Chinese Opera Demonstration with Hou Shao Kui July - August 2016 No. 4 Saturday, July 9 Members’ Newsletter Lecture: The Monochrome Wares, Where Elegance Lies with Jennifer Chen Edited by Trista Berkovitz, Jeanne Dorward, Saturday, July 16 and Jean Karnow Study Group: Traditional Japanese Costumes and Textiles with Alan Kennedy published bimonthly by: Wednesday, August 3 Society for Asian Art Visit to the Chinese Culture Center with Abby Chen 200 Larkin Street San Francisco, CA 94102 Fridays, August 19 – December 2 www.societyforasianart.org Arts of Asia Fall Lecture Series Copyright © 2016 Society for Asian Art Friday, August 26 Souk Donation Drop-Off Day Board of Directors 2015-2016 Saturday, August 27 President Linda Lei Lecture: Emperors as Patrons, Participants, and Producers of Painting Vice President Anne Adams Kahn with Richard Vinograd Vice President Maureen Hetzel Vice President Peter Sinton Wednesday, September 7 Secretary Jeanne Dorward Visit to the Berkeley Art Museum with Julia White Treasurer Mel Hetzel Asst. Treasurer Vince Fausone Sundays, September 11, 18, October 9, 16, 23 Literature and Culture of Asia: Gods on Earth: Ten Incarnations of Vishnu Richard Beleson with Robert and Sally Goldman Trista Berkovitz Deborah Clearwaters* Anne Dorsey Sheila Dowell UPCOMING EVENTS (subject to change) Elizabeth (BJ) Johnson Jennifer Kao Kristl Lee Fridays, September 9, 23, and October 7 Sheryln Leong Souk Donation Drop-Off Days Forrest McGill* David Menke Sunday, September 11 Julie Kim Nemeth Conversation with Stan Lai Greg Potts Merrill Randol Saturday, October 1 Teri Sandison Lecture: Material Culture in the Dream of the Red Chamber Nazneen Spliedt Lucy Sun Saturday, October 8 Alice Trinkl Lecture: Understanding the Ramayana through Dance Kalim Winata Barbara Wirth Thursday, November 17 Sylvia Wong Lecture: Joan Mirviss on Contemporary Japanese Ceramics *ex officio Saturday, November 19 Rama Symposium Society Book Sale 2017 Donations for our Annual Book Sale are accepted throughout the year. If you have any Asian related books on art, culture, travel, cooking, or novels, please call the SAA office. If you have a couple of boxes, we will pick them up from your home in the Bay Area! 2 ARTS OF ASIA FALL 2016 LECTURE SERIES From Monet to Ai Weiwei: How We Got Here When: Fridays, August 19 - December 2 Time: 10:30 am - 12:30 pm Place: Samsung Hall Fee: $175 Society members, $200 non-members (for the series after Museum admission) $20 per lecture drop-in (after Museum admission, subject to availability) Where did modern Asian art come from? What is contemporary Asian art? Sign up for this lecture series and find out! Inspired by the recent exhibitions Looking East, 28 Chinese, and First Look, the Society for Asian Art’s Fall 2016 Arts of Asia lectures will explore how art trends beginning in the late 19th century influenced modern and contemporary Asian art. The series will start with a two-lecture overview covering important 19th and 20th century art movements, such as impressionism, surrealism, abstraction, and conceptualism. Prominent scholars like Joan Kee and Ming Tiampo will then examine the development of late 19th century and early 20th century pre-war Asian art from areas like Meiji Japan and colonial Southeast Asia through post-war movements like the Gutai Group in Japan, the '85 New Wave in China, and Korea's Avant-Garde Association. The legacy of classical Chinese traditions, Indian nationalism, and Islamic attitudes toward art will also be considered against the backdrop of Mid-Autumn Festival, 1969, by Liu modernism, concluding with an examination of globalism, new media, and biennials. Guosong (Chinese, b. 1932). Ink and colors on paper. Asian Art Museum, 2003.22. © Liu Guosong. August 19 October 7 Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Warhol and Mid-Century Modernisms: Art is anything you can get Gauguin and Early Global Modernism away with Karin Oen, AAM Karin Oen, AAM August 26 October 14 European Modernism and Its Global Repercussions in the First Half Post-War Japanese Art of the 20th Century Ming Tiampo, Carleton University (Ottawa) John Zarobell, University of San Francisco October 21 September 2 Thirteen Ways of Looking at Abstraction The Rise of Imperial Japan: Japanese Arts and Crafts of the Taisho Joan Kee, University of Michigan and Showa Eras Kendall Brown, California State University Long Beach October 28 Looking for the Contemporary in “Islamic” Art September 9 Talinn Gregor, UC Davis The Bauhaus in Bengal: Reflections on Art and Design in Modern India November 4 Saloni Mathur, UCLA Everyday Partitions: Contemporary South Asian Art Sonal Khullar, University of Washington September 16 Where the Ancient Never Tread: Dunhuang as a Source of Artistic November 11 Inspiration Extreme Reverberations and the Existing Real: The Birth of Joseph Scheier-Dolberg, Metropolitan Museum of Art Contemporary Chinese Art Taliesin Thomas, Director – AW Asia September 23 Rise of the East: Modernity and Modern Diaspora Chinese Art of November 18 the Postwar Era Who Am We? Five Contemporary Artists of Korea An-yi Pan, Cornell University Hyonjeong Kim Han, AAM September 30 December 2 Artisans to Artists: Colonial and Post-Independent Art Education in Globalism and New Media: The Long History of World’s Fairs and Vietnam and Cambodia Biennials Nora Taylor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Caroline Jones, MIT 3 MEMBER EVENTS Weekend in Monterey at Orientations When: Saturday and Sunday, June 25 and 26 Time: 5:00 pm Saturday - Sunday morning Place: Orientations, 700 Camino El Estero, Monterey Fee: $75 Society members, $85 non-members As always Jerry Janssen at Orientations will pull out all the stops and treat us to an elegant evening with a fabulous meal which will be Japanese inspired American, accompanied by a sushi bar and koto music. His special exhibit and sale will be recently arrived Japanese bronzes from the Meiji and early Taisho periods as well as an extensive collection of rare Japanese tansu. The bronzes include flower containers, hibachi, and sculptural figures. Other wonderful pieces from his extensive collection will also be on view. On Sunday morning an expert will give a talk on the bronzes while we have coffee and breakfast goodies. Kunqu Chinese Opera With Master Hou Shao Kui, Sabrina Hou, and Xiaomu Hou When: Saturday, July 2 Time: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Place: Samsung Hall Fee: $15 Society members, $20 non-members (after Museum admission) See a demonstration of the Chinese opera style Kunqu, by the Master actor Hou Shao Kui with his famous daughters Sabrina and Xiaomu. The art of Kunqu has continued from the 14th century and is acclaimed by UNESCO as one of the Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage.
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