Detail of a Japanese scroll painting depicting a scene from the Tale of Genji.
Tawaraya Sotatsu, "Nine Scenes From the Tale of Genji", 17th century

Benjamin Weisman presents at the Annual AHVA Graduate Symposium

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Benjamin Weisman (MA Candidate) will be giving a talk on March 5, 2020 at the “43rd Annual AHVA Graduate Symposium - Decadence: Flows of Abundance and Decay.” This event is sponsored by the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia. Benjamin’s paper, “Decadence as a Generative Force in the Tale of Genji,” explores the concept of how decadence informed the production of the work, “Nine Scenes from the Tale of Genji” by Tawaraya Sotatsu.

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Art History