Helen Frankenthaler, Woodcuts, and the Tale of Genji
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Thursday, Sep 17, 2020 5:30 PM - 7 PM
Location
Sheldon Museum of Art
12th and R Streets
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Recently acquired by Sheldon, Helen Frankenthaler’s thirty-four-color woodblock print "Tales of Genji I" is a visual meditation on the text and earliest illustrations of the eleventh-century literary work "The Tale of Genji" that is generally considered the world’s first novel.
To learn more about the print and the story that inspired it, join us for "Helen Frankenthaler, Woodcuts, and the Tale of Genji: A conversation with Karen Kunc and Ikuho Amano" on September 17 at 5:30 pm (Central). Karen Kunc, artist/printmaker and professor emeritus, and Ikuho Amano, associate professor of Japanese at the University of Nebraska, will give insight to the work in a live, museum-from-home event moderated by Melissa Yuen, associate curator of exhibitions at Sheldon.
Registration is available at go.unl.edu/tale-of-genji.
"Tales of Genji I" is on view in the Focus Gallery through December.
