Museum Events featuring Asian Art in California

 

 

 

UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
presents:

 

Oct. 5, 2003-April 2004
"The Art of Rice: Spirit and Sustenance in Asia"
This major traveling exhibition examines the extraordinary significance of rice in Asian society through a cross-cultural study of the visual arts. "The Art of Rice" combines the research of an international group of twenty-two anthropologists, arts specialists, artists and museum specialists working in universities and museums. The exhibition is the first of its kind to apply a comprehensive approach to this subject, and its interdisciplinary scholarship provides new insights through the comparative analysis of materials from India, Bali, Japan, Nepal, China, Korea, Vietnam, Java, Laos, Thailand and the Philippines. "The Art of Rice" introduces audiences to the wide range of rice-related artistic expression - ranging from Javanese puppets to Balinese rice god figures, from 19th-century textiles to Zen paintings - while exploring issues of economics, politics, history, philosophy and religion.

Curated by Roy Hamilton, curator for Asian and Pacific Collections at the Fowler Museum, and made possible in part by support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation and the Getty Trust.

Related Programming for "The Art of Rice: Spirit and Sustenance in Asia"
October 19, 2003, Noon-5 pm
Rice Festival
Live music and dance, art workshops, and more, all relating to rice.

	Balinese rice farming Bali, Indonesia 1930s Paint on cloth W: 86 cm. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, LX74.289.
	Snow Boots Japan Rice straw H: 48 cm. UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, X88.1244b, c.
	Pair of granary figures (bulul) Ifugao people Kababuyan, Luzon, Philippines Wood H: 46 cm. Collection of Thomas Murray. Bulul normally consist of a male and female pair, but this set is unusual in including an infant, therefore making explicit the connection between the rice crop and human fertility.
	Mr. Rhu in Eunhang Dong Jonggu Lee Korea 1991 Acrylic on paper H: 138 cm. Collection of the artist.

For more information, please contact:
Stacey Ravel Abarbanel, Director of Communications, 310/825-4288
All photos by Don Cole and courtesy of the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History

UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Box 951549
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1549
Tel:310-825-4361