Join the School of History of Art for the next talk in the Research Seminar Series - 'An Exclusive Fashion? Reconsidering the Socio-historical Background of Akita Ranga Painting' by Katharina S. Rode-Kaya. This seminar will be chaired by Dr Halle O'Neal.

Drawing on European prints and Chinese painting, the so-called Akita Ranga School produced literally outstanding works with a visual language that appealed to a particular audience within the political center of Edo in the late 18th century. This talk will examine the group with a two-pronged approach as a freak fashion related to the transcultural taste of a select group of high-status figures within the confines of Edo high society.

This talk will be in person only. The seminar will be followed by a drinks reception in the John Higgitt Gallery. 

About the speaker

Katharina S. Rode-Kaya is Assistant Professor of Japanese Art History in the Institute of East Asian Art History at Heidelberg University since 2019, where she teaches classes on ancient Japanese cultures up to contemporary art. Her core research examines the role of models in the modernisation of late 19- and early 20th-century Japanese painting with a focus on the painter Kawabata Gyokushō 川端玉章 (1842–1913).

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