Join The Loeb as we celebrate the opening of Bunmei Kaika: Political Landscape in Early Modern and Modern Japan, an exhibition featuring works by Hokusai, Hiroshige, and many others who contributed to a thriving print culture that cleverly navigated waves of political and social upheaval in 19th-century Japan.

Chelsea Foxwell, Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College at the University of Chicago, will give a lecture entitled “Art in a Time of Profound Change: Japanese Woodblock Prints of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.” She will then be joined by exhibition curator Monique D’Almeida, The Loeb’s Deknatel Curatorial Fellow in Japanese Works on Paper, for Q&A.

A reception in The Loeb’s atrium follows the program, and the galleries will remain open until 5:00 p.m.

Free and open to the public.

Speaker Bio

Chelsea Foxwell is Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College at the University of Chicago, where she also serves as Director of the Center for East Asian Studies. She is the author of Making Modern Japanese Painting: Kano Hōgai and the Search for Images (2015) and co-author and co-curator, with Bradley Bailey, of Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan (2023). Her articles include “Access Granted: Art Historical Art and Woodblock-Printed Books in Eighteenth-Century Japan,” Ars Orientalis 49 (2019), and “Mediated Realism in Kuwagata Keisai’s Illustrated Book of Birds From Abroad,” Journal18 (Fall 2017). Her current book in progress is provisionally titled Painting Everything: Art and the Public Sphere in Early Modern Japan.