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2007 | Home > Events > Brown Bag Series > 2007 > Tuesday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Inside Asian Images: What the Contents of Religious Statues Can Tell Us About Local Religion in China' |
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Tuesday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Inside Asian Images: What the Contents of Religious Statues Can Tell Us About Local Religion in China' Date: 1/23/2007; 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Location: 202 South Thayer St., Rm 2022, Ann Arbor Host Department: Institute for the Humanities James Robson, Asian Languages and Cultures Featuring our Fellows Series Detailed Information James Robson is the Helmut F. Stern Faculty Fellow in the Institute for the Humanities. He is working on a project that concerns a collection of small religious statuettes from Hunan province in south-central China. Rather than focusing on external aesthetics, Robson is looking inside the images and analyzing items placed in a small cavity carved in the back. They include desiccated insects, medicine, paper money, talismans, and most importantly a short text with a wealth of historical information (identity of the deity, name of the patron who requested the image, and the reasons for its consecration)in order to understand their function in contemporary Chinese popular religion and Daoist ritual. The statues are on display Jan. 22-26 at the Institute for the Humanities. They come from the collection of Eli Rosenblatt and Craig Stone of the Artasia Gallery and Museum in Milwaukee. The exhibition was made possible by pioneering work done by Patrice Fava in Beijing and Alain Arrault in Paris. Free and open to the public. Related Exhibition - "Inside Asian Images: An Exhibition of Religious Statuary from the Artasia Gallery Collection" curated by James Robson Contact Information Doretha Coval 734 936-3518 humin@umich.edu |
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