[BCMA] UBC lecture: Gender & Class as Performance in Edo Culture

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Lecture by MARIBETH GRAYBILL
The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer, Curator of Asian Art,
Portland Art Museum  
at the UBC Asian Studies Auditorium
January 09, 2012   5:30pm

Co-Sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies and the
Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory

"Gender and Class as Performance in Edo Culture and Prints"

Gender and class identity were fraught with tensions in Edo-period society,
especially during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Under 
Tokugawa military rule, occupations and social identities were ostensibly 
hereditary and fixed, but the rapid rise of cities led to unanticipated fluidity-no 
where more so than in Edo itself, which reached a population of one million 
by 1720. Actors and courtesans, the denizens of Edo's Floating World, were
ostensibly at the bottom of Edo's social ladder-but in reality they were icons 
of sexual desire and cultural sophistication, setting standards for samurai, 
wealthy merchants, and the intellegentsia alike. This talk will focus on 
gender and social status as depicted in works currently on view at the 
Portland Art Museum in the exhibition The Artist's Touch, The Craftsman's 
Hand: Three Centuries of Japanese Prints. 


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