National Museum of Ethnology
11 September - 25 November 2008
The National Museum of Art, Osaka
30 September - 24 November 2008
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
6 December 2008 - 25 January 2009
The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama
7 February - 29 March 2009
Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Cultural History
7 February - 29 March 2009
The exhibition asks how people in Asian and Europe have understood the self and how they have accepted each other. A travelling exhibition, it has been created through a collaboration between cultural museums and art museums in 18 countries in Asia and Europe, who are members of the Asia-Europe Museum Network (ASEMUS).
List of works included in a separate booklet.
Onsite
Brian DURRANS, 
Yukiya KAWAGUCHI, 川口幸也, 
Raiji KURODA, 黒田雷児, 
Tsutomu MIZUSAWA, 水沢勉, 
Masao MOMIYAMA, 籾山昌夫, 
Toshiko RAWANCHAIKUL, ラワンチャイクン寿子, 
Motohiro SHIMAMURA, 嶋村元宏, 
Masahiro YASUGI, 安來正博, 
English, 
Japanese
painting,  group exhibition
2008
320
Nil
2
catalogue
Foreword
Introduction. Portraits from Asia and Europe: How have people depicted each other? - Kenji YOSHIDA, 吉田憲司
Preface - Brian DURRANS
Chapter 1 Portraits of the Self
Portraits of the Self: Characteristics and development of Asian portraits - Yukiya KAWAGUCHI, 川口幸也
European Portraiture - Brian DURRANS
Chapter 2 Before Contacts: imagined others
Imagined Asia, Imagined Europe - Kenji YOSHIDA, 吉田憲司
Portraits of China and Japan: the case of the Dutch Golden Age - Thijs WESTSTEIJN
Chapter 3 After Contact: representing the other in one's own style
Japanese Thinking about Foreign Countries and Peoples in the Early Modern: Fascination, curiosity, fear and slight - Motohiro SHIMAMURA, 嶋村元宏
Peopling Landscapes, ethnographic and otherwise: European images of Asians from the 15th to the 19th centuries - Angus LOCKYER
Chapter 4 The Modern Look: adopting the other's style
Japanese Western-Style Painting: from assimilation to blending - Masao MOMIYAMA, 籾山昌夫
Detachment from the Self: the change in modern awareness brought about by the other's style in Asia - Tsutomu MIZUSAWA, 水沢勉
Modernism: Self and Other represented in (or by incorporating) other's style - Toshio WATANABE, 渡辺俊夫
Chapter 5 Self and Other in the Contemporary World
The Asia and the Others, the Others for the Asian: the act of adjusting contemporary world - Raiji KURODA, 黒田雷児
Contemporary Portraits: What supports their reality - Masahiro YASUGI, 安來正博
'Self' and 'Other' in the Late Consumer Capitalism - Katy DEEPWELL
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