ARTH 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dari Language, Japanese Calligraphy, Zoomorphism

• School: UBC Okanagan, UBC OK
• Department: Art History and Visual Culture
• Course: ARTH 301
• Professor: T'ai Smith

Document Summary

In last friday"s moa exhibition tour traces of words: art and calligraphy from asia, dr. Fuyubi nakamuta, who is interested in japan and the diaspore of india, told us the collection constitutes of a vast asian collection that is the largest in the museum about. During the 3-year preparation of the exhibition, she invites professors of different departments to make research on collections, as she can"t specialise in all cultures. I was impressed by how the exhibition makes us reflect on the cultural significance and artistic representations of asian words and writing along time, from calligraphy, incised tools, painting to digital and mixed media. The words represented are physical traces of time and space. From arabic manuscripts to words as objects that marked the beginning of writing in the ancient mesopotamia, by incising writing on east asian tools like clay, animal bones and turtle shells. Asia has an enormous diversity of languages and writing systems.