Sakai Hōitsu 酒井抱一 (1761-1828); Birds and Flowers of the Twelve Months (Detail from Tenth Month); Edo period, c. 1820-1828; Set of twelve hanging scrolls; ink, color, and gold on silk; Promised Gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg, Harvard Art Museums.
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Researching, exhibiting, conserving, and collecting art are activities usually undertaken in settings far removed from the living bodies and conceptual ecologies out of which the works themselves are produced. What are the implications of having separated ourselves from this knowledge historically, and the dangers of continuing to do so now? This talk explores how transdisciplinary slow looking can facilitate intimate encounter with both human and more-than-human beings—including trees, plants, and animals—in early modern School of Kōrin painting, and what it discloses about hope as an active mode of art historical being.