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In conjunction with the exhibition Zen Mind, Zen Brush:
Japanese ink paintings from the Gitter Yelen collection
Saturday 17 June 2006, 10am-5pm, Art Gallery of New South Wales
 PROGRAM
Welcome:
Jackie Menzies, head curator of Asian art
People's Zen: popularisation of Zen Buddhism in the Edo period
Gary Hickey, lecturer, School of Fine Arts, Classics and
Archaeology, University of Melbourne By the end of the
16th century Zen Buddhism no longer enjoyed official patronage.
During the Edo period (1605-1868) Zen flourished as a
counterculture producing some outstanding Zen masters. These
monks travelled the countryside of rural Japan popularising Zen
among people of all social and economic classes.
The Spiritual Dimensions of Zen Art
John Stevens, exhibition curator and professor of Buddhist
studies, Tohoku
Fukushi University How can one appreciate and interpret the
meaning of Zen painting and calligraphy? This lecture focuses on
the aspects of Zen brushwork that have a universal and timeless
appeal and describes how the Zen mind transcends religious and
cultural boundaries to express itself in brush, ink and paper.
LUNCH and EXHIBITION VIEWING
The origins of our Zen collection and its salvage from Katrina
Kurt A. Gitter and Alice Rae Yelen, collectors This New Orleans
based Zen painting collection began in the 1960s and continues
to the present. This lecture traces the collections background
and history up to the recent salvage from the horrific Katrina
storm that forced the largest evacuation and displacement of
people since the American civil war.
Film preview
A Zen Life: D.T. Suzuki dir Michael Goldberg 2005
Introduced by Susan Murphy, Diamond Sangha roshi
2006 is the 40th anniversary of the death of Daisetz Suzuki, who
is largely credited with introducing Zen to the West. This new
documentary includes rare footage and audio recordings of Suzuki
himself, Father Thomas Merton, Eric Fromm, John Cage and others
influenced by Suzuki, all inspiring in their own right.
Cost $80 $70 members
Bookings 02 9225 1878 or email
bookings@artgallerysociety.org.au
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/media/coming/zen
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Arts and Archaeology of Southeast
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| The next seminar in the Arts and Archaeology of
Southeast Asia series - 16 May, 2006 at 4.00pm.
The speaker is: Dr Chaya Chandrasekhar, Curator of South and
Southeast Asian Art at the Art Gallery of NSW. Her topic is "Newar Revisioning of the Buddha Biography:
Image, Text and Practice".
Room 202, Mills Building, Dept of Art History and Theory,
University of Sydney |
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