Topic: Woodblock Print
TALK: Katsuhika Hokusai, Winslow Homer and the “Great Wave”
By Christine Guth (Stanford University)
Tuesday, January 30, 4:00PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020. UC Santa Barbara
Hokusai’s “Great Wave” is widely recognized as a modern icon, but the question of how it achieved this status is difficult to answer. In her talk, Guth will address this larger issue through an exploration of the early responses to this image in the United States, especially as seen in the paintings of Winslow Homer.
Christine Guth, pre-eminent scholar of Japanese art history now a Stanford Humanities Center Fellow, raise provocative questions on globalization through the lens of visual culture.
Sponsored by the IHC’s East Asian Cultural Studies Research Focus Group, the departments of East Asian Language and Cultural Studies, Global Studies, History of Art and Architecture, History and the East Asia Center.
Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
