Netsuke Lectures

On September 30, 2006 the Department of Archives & Special Collections hosted a lecture and special viewing of the library's Netsuke exhibition titled Treasure in Miniature: Netsuke from the Kinsey Collection. Here you will find the audio file of the lectures, as well as Powerpoint presentations that provide an overview of the Robert and Miriam Kinsey collection and illustrates Dr. Katherine Harper's lecture on Japanese classicism and Western barbarism.

Lectures (audio)
With an introduction by Kristine Brancolini, Dean of University Libraries
1 hour and 5 minutes long

Robert and Miriam Kinsey: Collectors of Japanese Art
by Dr. Errol Stevens
Powerpoint #1
podcast

Japanese Classicism versus Western Barbarism: New Traditions in Art
by Dr. Katherine Harper
Powerpoint #2
podcast