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The Association of Print Scholars invites you to the
seventh annual Distinguished Scholar Lecture

"The Great Picture Book of Everything
and Late Hokusai Print Culture"


        
Timothy Clark FBA
Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Asia, British Museum
 

Timothy Clark FBA is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Asia at the British Museum. Until 2019, he was Head of the Japanese Section at the Museum, where he led a major reinstallation of the museum’s permanent collections in the Mitsubishi Corporation Japanese Galleries (2018). During his tenure at the British Museum, Mr. Clark curated and co-curated a succession of special exhibitions, including Shunga (2013), Hokusai (2017), Manga (2018) and Nara (2019). Between 2016 and 2019, he was the Principal Investigator in the UK for the AHRC-funded international research project, Late Hokusai: Thought, Technique, Society.

In his lecture, Mr. Clark will talk about The Great Picture Book of Everything and late Hokusai print culture.

Katsushika Hokusai, 'Virudhaka (Ruriō) killed by lightning' (illustration for The Great Picture Book of Everything). Block-ready drawing, ink on paper, 1820s–40s. British Museum, purchase funded by the Theresia Gerda Buch Bequest, in memory of her parents Rudolph and Julie Buch, with support from Art Fund (with a contribution from the Wolfson Foundation).

DATE: Friday, May 13, 2022

TIME: 9:00 AM (PST) / 12:00 PM (EST) / 5:00 PM (GMT)

Please note the lecture will be virtual. It is free and open all.

Pre-registration is required.

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Participants will be welcome to ask questions during the Q&A after the lecture.
The talk will be recorded and made available on our website after the event.