East West Center - ASDP

Honolulu, 9 august 2013

Rosana Pereira de FreitasProfessor I CoordinatorHistory of Art (new undergraduate degree)Fine Arts SchoolFederal University of Rio de Janeiro

Infusing Chinese and Japanese Religion, Art

and Literature into the Undergraduate Curriculum

In Brazil !!!

Infusing Chinese and Japanese Religion, Art

and Literature into the Undergraduate Curriculum

First infusionIslam in China

In the required course History of Art II

Unit 3: Islamic Art

(the unit already exist, but we go until the Iberian Peninsula and stop there).

First infusionIslam in China

In the required course History of Art II

Unit 3: Islamic Art

(the unit already exist, but we go until the Iberian Peninsula and stop there).

First infusion

Islam in China

In the required course History of Art II

Infuse examples of sino-islamic art and architecture.

Second infusion

Buddhism

  In the required course Oriental Arts: India/China/Japan

BAH364

Second infusion

Buddhism

  Infuse Buddhism as a key theme to connect the 3 units:

India/China/Japan

 

c.11th centuryblack sandstone, 28 x 75 cmAsian Art Museum, Berlim

in Parallel

Second cup of Buddhism

Long-term project:• “Buddhist Art: from the

aniconic times until Murakami’s Oval Buddha”

c.11th centuryblack sandstone, 28 x 75 cmAsian Art Museum, Berlim

Lastinfusion

Special Topic

“Art & Text”

(or “Word and Image”)there are electives courses called “Tópicos Especiais”

Reading Contemporary Asian Art through Literature

(or the vengeance of the art historian)

Context

The Fine Arts School of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro is the oldest institution of arts in Brazil.

Since colonial times we have had courses in Engraving, Painting, Sculpture, among others. But only in 2009, the degree in History of Art was created.

Context

Even being a bicentenary institution – The Fine Arts School was created by the King of Portugal, when the Portuguese Royal Family moved from Portugal under Napoleon threat – it’s the first time that the institution has promoted a course in Asian Arts.

Challenge

There is no text-book (no Clunas, no Masson, no Stanley-Baker)Ex.

*Wong, Eva (tr), Seven Taoist Masters: a Folk Novel of China (Boston: Shambhala, 1990).

We have 3 others books translated into Portuguese on the shelves of self-help books (“Feng Shui” etc.)

*Pauline C. Lee recommended readings

 but we have:

**Watson, Burton (tr), Chuang Tzu (New York: Columbia University Press, 1968).

Translated from English (!)

Rugendas, 1822

Tea Plantation

The first Chinese

Immigrants arrived in Brazil in 1810

(400)

A poster used in Japan to attract immigrants to Brazil.

The first Japanese immigrants arrived in Brazil in 1908.

Brazil is home to the largest Japanese population outside of Japan. 

“As of 2004, there were some 1.6 million people of Japanese descent estimated to live in Brazil, accounting for 62 percent of the 2.6 million Japanese and their descendents in total living abroad, according to the Association of Nikkei and Japanese Abroad”. The Japan Times Online, 2008-01-15

Invitation

Museu Dom João VI

Par de porta pincéis. Museu Dom João VI, Coleção Jerônimo Ferreira das Neves,Rio de Janeiro, Acervo n° 1398A e 1398B. 10 por 5,8 cm, c. 1780 – 1850

Shan Xing I Escalada da Montanha

Du Mu (803 – 852)

“Por este caminho sinuoso de pedras escalo a montanha até o topo, onde faz frio.O caminho me conduz a um lugar de nuvens brancas onde vivem pessoas.Detenho a minha carruagem e sento-me para apreciar as árvores de bordo,cujas folhas geladas são tão vermelhas quanto as flores de primavera.”

(trad. Maria Fernanda Lochschmidt)

Porta pincéis. Museu Dom João VI, Coleção Jerônimo Ferreira das Neves,Rio de Janeiro, Acervo n° 1400. 10 x 6 cm. ca. 1780 – 1850

• Art and Literature are tied

• The importance of narrative

• The role of the spectator

Assumptions

Reading Contemporary Asian Art through Literature

(or the vengeance of the art historian)

Reading Contemporary Asian Art through Literature

Unit 1:

“Under Confucians Eyes”

 

Unit 2:

Under Buddha’s Smile

 

Unit 3:

Under the Moonlight

A detail of “He Xie,” an installation of ceramic crabs at thethat refers to a dinner celebrating Ai Weiwei’s studio shortlybefore its razing by the Chinese government

Visitantes tentam ler A Book from the Sky. 4 mil blocos de madeira

A Book from the Sky

In Chinese, the word for river crab, hexie, sounds very similar to that for “harmony”, the ideological buzzword of the current regime referencing the censorship of China

Zhang Huan – Confúcio (2011)

Zhang Huan – Buddha (2011)

Artist: JochoTitle: Amida BuddhaMedium: Gold leaf and lacquer on woodSize: height 9'8" (2.95 m)Date: Heian period, c. 1053 CESource: Phoenix Hall, Byodo-in

Artist: JochoTitle: Amida BuddhaMedium: Gold leaf and lacquer on woodSize: height 9'8" (2.95 m)Date: Heian period, c. 1053 CESource: Phoenix Hall, Byodo-in

Mariko Mori, Oneness, 2003; Pure Land 1996-1998; Dream Temple, 1997-1999

• Pure

Old themes +Travel literatureYoshitomo Nara

Yoshitomo Nara

Travel literature

Wenceslau de Moraes(Lisbon, 1854 - Tokushima, 1929)

Bibliography  1/4

• Bashô. Trilha estreita ao confim. São Paulo, Iluminuras, 1997 ("Oku no hosomichi")

• Contos Populares Chineses. São Paulo: Landy, 2000.• Ching, S.C. & Wei, L. S. China – Lendas e Mitos. São

Paulo: Kempf, 1984• Cleary, T. Meditações taoístas. Brasília: Teosófica, 2001

(recolha de textos taoístas)• Cleary, T. O essencial de Confúcio. São Paulo: Best

Seller, 1992• Cleary, T. O essencial do Tao. São Paulo: Best Seller,

1992• Cleary, T. Wen tzu. Brasilia: Teosófica, 2002.• Confucio Analectos. São Paulo: Pensamento, 1997.

Bibliography  2/4

• Confúcio Conversações. São Paulo: Ibrasa, 1999 (trad. Anne Cheng)

• Franchetti, Paulo, org. Haikai; antologia e história. 3a. ed. Campinas, SP, Ed. da Unicamp, 1996

• Gonçalves, R. (org) Textos Budistas e Zen Budistas. São Paulo: Cultrix, 1995.

• Goga, H. Masuda & ODA, Teruko. Natureza - berço do haicai; kigologia e antologia. São Paulo, Empresa Jornalística Diário Nippak, 1996

• Guerra, J.J. Dicionário semântico de Chinês – Português. Macau, Jesuítas Portugueses, 1981. 

• Hamill, S. & Seaton, J. Chuang Tzu. São Paulo: Cultrix, 2000.

Bibliography  3/4

• Kenkô, Yoshida. A Arte de transformar tempo útil em tempo fútil. São Paulo: Landy, 2001. • Laozi - Tao te Ching, o livro do Caminho Perfeito. São Paulo: Pensamento, 1985 (trad. M Azevedo)• Laozi - Tao Te King São Paulo: Attar, 1995• Laozi Daodejing. São Paulo: Hedra, 2002 (trad. M. Sproviero)• Laozi. Tao te king. São Paulo: Paulus, 2001• Laozi - Tao te ching. São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2004. (trad. B. Watson)• Meireles, C. Poemas Chineses. Rio de Janeiro: Nova Fronteira, 1996• Merton, T. A Via de Chunag Tzu. Petropolis: Vozes, 1999.•  • Merton, T. Místicos e mestres zen. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização brasileira, 1972.•  • Ming, L.I. O Despertar do Tao. São Paulo: Pensamento, 1992.•  • Savary, Olga, trad. Haikais de Bashô. São Paulo, Hucitec, 1989, 84 p. Antologia de haicais

traduzidos do mestre japonês.• Watson, B. Chuang Tzu. São Paulo: Cultrix, 1988•  • Wilhelm, R. A Sabedoria do I Ching. São Paulo: Pensamento, 1991•  • Wilhelm, R. I Ching. São Paulo: Pensamento, 1986.•  • Wilhelm, R. Tao Te King. São Paulo: Pensamento, 1989.•  

Bibliography  4/4

• Merton, T. Místicos e mestres zen. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização brasileira, 1972. 

• Ming, L.I. O Despertar do Tao. São Paulo: Pensamento, 1992.

• Savary, Olga, trad. Haikais de Bashô. São Paulo, Hucitec, 1989, 84 p. Antologia de haicais traduzidos do mestre japonês.

• Watson, B. Chuang Tzu. São Paulo: Cultrix, 1988• Wilhelm, R. A Sabedoria do I Ching. São Paulo:

Pensamento, 1991• Wilhelm, R. I Ching. São Paulo: Pensamento, 1986.• Wilhelm, R. Tao Te King. São Paulo: Pensamento, 1989.

Supplementary Bibliography 1/2

• Campos, H. (org.) Ideograma. São Paulo: Cultrix, 1977.• Conze, E. Budismo. Rio de Janeiro: Civilização

Brasileira, 1973 • Cooper, J. C. O Taoísmo. São Paulo: Martins Fontes,

1986• Eliade, M. História das Crenças e idéias religiosas. Rio

de Janeiro: Zahar, 1978.• Kudielka, Robert. "Arte do mundo – arte de todo o

mundo?". In: Novos Estudos, São Paulo, CEBRAP, n.67, nov./2003, p. 131-142.

• Kuniyoshi, Celina. Imagens do Japão: uma utopia de viajantes. São Paulo: Estação Liberdade; FAPESP,1998.

Supplementary Bibliography 2/2

 • Leite, José Roberto Teixeira. A China no Brasil:

influências, marcas, ecos e sobrevivências chinesas na sociedade e na arte brasileiras. Campinas: Editora da Unicamp, 1996.

• Sullivan, M. A Arte da China e do Japão. Lisboa,1971.• The “Eating Crabs” Youth Book. In: Mann, Susan &

Cheng, Yu-Yin. Under Confucian Eyes. Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press

• Thornton, Sarah. A visita ao Ateliê. In: Sete dias no mundo da arte. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Agir, 2010. 

• Zimmer, Heinrich. Mitos e símbolos na arte e civilização da Índia. São Paulo: Palas Athenas, 1989.

Further infusions

How about a panel?

Revisiting the Past, Living the Present, Envisioning the Future: Twentieth National Conference of the Asian Studies Development Program

Zhang Xiaogang b. Kunming, China, 1958. Lives in Beijing

Bloodline, 1995

Further infusions

On the red tread: (non-)authorized genealogies

Obrigado(a)!

• Islam in China in the unit Islamic Art

• HAV 2