"Four Times Twenty: The Many Lives of Art Historian Doris Croissant"

Friday, 29 May
18:00
at the Cluster of Excellence, Voßstr. 2, 69115 Heidelberg
with a special lecture by our current Ishibashi Foundation Visiting
Professor

Melanie Trede, Institute of East Asian Art History, Heidelberg University:
Welcome and Introduction

Michael Lucken, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, Paris:
Kishida Ryusei’s Portraits of Reiko or, How Can Ghosts Be at Work

Saturday, May 30
10:30am to 12:30pm
at the Institute of East Asian Art History, Seminarstraße 4, Graimberg
Room, 69117 Heidelberg
Five short presentations by colleagues in the field of East Asian Art
History: Youngsook Pak (London), Adele Schlombs (Cologne), Alexander Hofmann (Berlin), Mio Wakita (Heidelberg), Stephan von der Schulenburg (Frankfurt).

10:40 Youngsook Pak on contacts between Korean and Japanese painters
in the early twentieth century
11:00 Adele Schlombs on innovative findings in contributions by
Doris Croissant in her edited exhibition catalogue Splendid
Impressions
11:20 Alexander Hofmann on a hanging scroll of the eighteenth
century and buddhist painting studios in the Edo period
11:40 Mio Wakita on aspects of gender and realism in souvenir
photography of the late nineteenth century
12:00 Stephan von der Schulenburg on encounters and joint projects
with Doris Croissant

More on the program is at:
http://www.iko.uni-hd.de and
http://www.iko.uni-hd.de/md/zo/iko/events/2015/2015_0530_4x20.pdf

Prof. Doris Croissant teaches, researches and publishes since 1966 at the Heidelberg Institute of East Asian Art History. Her countless presentations and publications in Japanese, English and German have enriched our field and have broadened our horizon of thinking thanks to her ever new approaches and innovative thematic choices. She is, among others, a pioneer in modern Japanese art history and research on yoga painting, which she began in the 1970s. Her fearless challenges of established theories was a model for many whose lives she touched.
She is the author of Sotatsu und der Sotatsu Stil (1978), the editor of Japan und Europa, 1543-1929 (1993), as well as Splendid Impressions: Japanese Secular Painting, 1400-1900 (2011), and co-editor of Performing "Nation", Gender Politics in Literature, Theater and the Visual Arts of China and Japan, 1880-1940 (2008), among others. Articles focused on the Nihonga-Yoga relationship (1977), Takahashi Yuichi and the realism of early Meiji portraiture (1982), Fenollosa's Art Theories (1987), Genji and Shojo manga (2002), Mimesis in Early Modern Japan (2005), Portraiture and Photography (2006), and the forthcoming article on Myths of artists in East Asia and Europe (edited by Ulrich Pfisterer and Matteo Burioni, Kunstgeschichte der Vier Erdteile/Art History of the Four Continents, Darmstadt).