History of Japanese Gardens in North America
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To welcome the arrival of spring, Study Group will host a lecture on the history of Japanese gardens in North America by Professor Kendall Brown. This talk explores the 150-year history of Japanese-style gardens in North America, analyzing how they have been used as emblems of national heritage, social status, civic pride, gender cultural politics, ethnic identity and employment, education, and wellness. The lecture explores Japanese gardens as a national and international phenomenon while focusing on those in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Kendall Brown is a professor of Asian art history at California State University Long Beach. He holds a PhD in Art History from Yale University and an MA from UC Berkeley. He publishes actively in several areas of Japanese art and has curated exhibitions for several American museums, exploring topics from modern woodblock prints to Art Deco. He was a co-founder and past president of the North American Japanese Garden Association, and is the author of three books on American Japanese gardens: Japanese-style Gardens of the Pacific West Coast (Rizzoli, 1999), Quiet Beauty: The Japanese Gardens of North America (Tuttle, 2012), and Visionary Landscapes (Tuttle, 2016).
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