Making Sense of Glances and Gestures: A Japanese Poet-Portrait
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By analyzing placement, posture, breaks in formality and iconography in a pair of 17th-century Japanese folding screens, Assistant Professor of Art and Art History Tomoko Sakomura places the two screens within the vibrant histories surrounding the "immortal poets" they depict. Read the transcript [rtf].
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