• Painting from Within: Yi Insang (1710–1760) and the Visual Poetics of Subjectivity in late Joseon Korea
• Decorative Arts & Design Council Lecture Series: Brian Dolan
• Lecture: Eccentrics at the Gates of the Academy
  18th-Century Japanese Painting
• Curatorial Talk: Christopher Phillips
• SAVE THE DATE
  The Fourth R.L. Shep Triennial Symposium on Textiles and Dress - Talking Cloth: New Studies on Indonesian Textiles

Painting from Within: Yi Insang (1710–1760) and the Visual Poetics of Subjectivity in late Joseon Korea
Tuesday, August 26 | 6:30 pm
The rise of seo'eol intellectuals in the world of art and literature marks one of the most important historical changes in the eighteenth century. The seo'eol were a class of secondary sons of the commoner concubines of officials and degree-holders, belonging to the ruling yangban class yet deprived of the social privilege. In this talk, Chin-Sung Chang, associate professor at Seoul National University, will explore the ways in which the self-fashioning of the eminent seo'eol intellectual Yi Insang is embodied in the thematic density of his autobiographical works. His works reveal a complex mindscape of psychological dislocation and internal exile that is inseparable from his identity as seo'eol. Professor Chang will discuss how the questions of psychological self-hood and subjectivity played a significant role in the making of Yi Insang's art as well as how the artist used allegorically autobiographical paintings as a means of constructing his self and his identity.
Brown Auditorium | Free, no reservations

This lecture was made possible by the East Asian Art Council and the Chinese and Korean Art Department at LACMA.

Decorative Arts & Design Council Lecture Series: Brian Dolan
Monday, September 8 | 7:00 pm
The yearly series kicks off with Brian Dolan, professor at UC San Francisco. Author of Wedgwood: The First Tycoon, he will outline how Josiah Wedgwood built his pottery business into a formidable empire.
Brown Auditorium | Tickets: Free for Decorative Arts and Design Council members and students; $15 LACMA members; $20 nonmembers | For tickets: 323-857-6528

Lecture: Eccentrics at the Gates of the Academy
18th-Century Japanese Painting
Sunday, September 14 | 2:00 pm
University of London professor Timon Screech discusses Japan's mid-Edo period, which produced what many consider a golden age of creativity. The academy's rigid control of artistic styles led to alternative types of work, giving rise to new, hybrid types of painting. The lecture complements the special exhibition The Age of Imagination—Japanese Art, 1615-1868, from the Price Collection.
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations

Curatorial Talk: Christopher Phillips
Thursday, September 25 | 7:00 pm
Christopher Phillips, curator at the International Center of Photography in New York, will examine recent directions in Japanese photography and video in advance of the exhibition Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan, coming in 2009.
Brown Auditorium | Free | Tickets are required and available one hour before the program begins

SAVE THE DATE
The Fourth R.L. Shep Triennial Symposium on Textiles and Dress - Talking Cloth: New Studies on Indonesian Textiles
Saturday, October 18 | 10:00 am
Lectures focusing on recent research and discoveries in the field of Indonesian textile studies are the subject of this one-day symposium held in conjunction with the LACMA exhibition Five Centuries of Indonesian Textiles: Selections from the Mary Hunt Kahlenberg Collection, on view from September 2008 to September 2009. Scientific dating of early textiles, the history of design interpretation, and issues of identity in Indonesian dress and textiles will be among the topics discussed. A detailed program will be posted in late September.
Bing Theater | 10-4:30 pm | Free, tickets required | 323 857-6010

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