Dr. Patricia J. Graham Research Associate

Center for East Asian Studies

Office:
Phone: (785) 841-1477
Fax: (785) 841-1477
E-Mail: pgraham@ku.edu

Webpages:

http://www.patriciagraham.net

Date Appointed: 1998

Previous Appointments:

*Japan Program Director, Kansas-Asia Scholars Program, University of Kansas (2002-2006)
*Consultant for Japanese Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo (1993-2001)
*Study Leader/Scholar for tours of Japan for the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Distant Horizons, Santa Monica, CA, and The American Museum of Natural History, NY.
*Lecturer, Graduate Program in Museum Studies, KU, 1997-2001
*Lecturer, History of Art and Religious Studies departments, KU, 2000
*Assistant to the Director, Center for East Asian Studies, KU (1998-1999)
*Director, Japan Summer Study Abroad Institute in Hiratsuka, Japan, l998
*Assistant Curator of Asian Arts: Saint Louis Art Museum, 1991-1993
*Assistant Professor, Art and History Departments, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, 1988-1990
*Assistant Professor, Japanese Art, Cornell University, 1986-1988

Education

University of Kansas, Japanese Art History, Ph.D., 1983
University of Kansas, Asian Art History, M.A., 1977
Ohio University, Art History, B.F.A., 1974

Languages:

Japanese, French, Chinese

Overseas Experience:

Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, PRC

Courses:

At KU: Freshman seminar on Contemporary Japanese Culture and Society; Introduction to Museum Exhibits; Material Culture in Japanese Religious Traditions; Connoisseurship of Japanese Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum; Japanese culture and society; Survey of East Asian art history.

At other universities: Japanese art; Japanese painting; Japanese architecture and gardens; Cultural history of Kyoto; Edo period Japanese painting; Japanese prints; Survey of Ancient and Medieval Western Art; Art and architecture of ancient Greece.

Research Statement:

My new book (FAITH AND POWER IN JAPANESE BUDDHIST ART, 1600-2005) on the largely overlooked tradition in Japanese visual culture of devotional pictures, sculpted icons, and buildings associated with Buddhism in Japan from the 17th century to the present, has just been published by the University of Hawaii Press. Scholars generally dismiss these materials because they have been preconditioned to regard only Japanese Buddhist arts of more ancient times as among the supreme monuments of Japan‘s cultural heritage. This study aims to dispel this myth and show that Buddhist arts have continued to thrive in modern Japan, where they have evolved in response to the needs of new generations of parishioners.

Awards and Distinctions:

Monbusho Fellowship 1980-81
Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Grants 1978 and 1987
Association for Asian Studies, North East Asia Council Travel Grants, 1997, 1991, 1985
Fulbright Scholarship, 1991
Asian Cultural Council (Rockefeller Brothers Fund Affiliate) Grant, 2001
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2003-2005
Kajima Art Foundation, Japan, 2007

Outreach, Consulting, and Other Activities Outside the University:

Since 1993, I have been an Independent Consultant on Japanese art to Businesses, Private Individuals and Art Museums throughout the USA. In 2002, I was admitted to the Appraisers Association of America as a qualified appraiser for a wide range of Asian artworks, with special expertise in Japanese arts.
www.patriciagraham.net

References

Graham, Patricia J. 2003."Karamono for Sencha, Transformations in the Taste for Chinese Art". In Japanese Tea Culture: Art, History, and Practice, Morgan Pitelka, ed. London: Routledge-Curzon, 110-136.

Graham, Patricia J. 2002."The Later Flourishing of Literati Painting in Edo-period Japan,". In Enduring Vision: Paintings from the Manyo, Kobayashi Tadashi et al., ed. New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 69-87.

Graham. Patricia J. 2002. "Early Modern Japanese Art History: An Overview of the State of the Field,". Early Modern Japan: An Interdisciplinary Journal 10(2): 2-21.

Graham, Patricia. 1998. Tea of the Sages: The Art of Sencha . Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press.

Graham, Patricia J. 1992. "A Heterodox Painting of Shussan Shaka in Late Tokugawa Japan" Part Two. Artibus Asiae 52(1): 131-145.

Graham, Patricia J. 1991. "A Heterodox Painting of Shussan Shaka in Late Tokugawa Japan" Part One. Artibus Asiae 51(3): 275-292.

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