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Somlak
Charoenpot
Sponsored by the Mary C. Lanius Lecture Fund at the University
of Denver and
the William Sharpless Jackson Jr. Endowment Fund
Phra Buddha Sihing
Phutthaisawan Chapel
National Museum, Bangkok |
Lecture:
"Museum Development in Thailand: A Current Trend"
Somlak Charoenpot returns to the University
of Denver, where she studied museology, to speak about the system
of museums in Thailand. In 1926, King Prajadhipok (Rama VII, 1893-1941)
created the Royal Institute of Art, Literature, and Archaeology,
which then opened a museum in Bangkok at the Wang Na Palace. Today
the Bangkok National Museum exhibits treasures, including the
household effects, regalia, musical instruments, and throne from
Wang Na Palace that represent the historical cultures of Thailand.
At present, there are forty-four national museums throughout Thailand
organized by the Office of National Museums under the authority
of the Ministry of Culture's Fine Arts Department. These art and
archaeology museums are classified into four categories: regional,
provincial, site, and monastery. Discussing a current trend in
cultural heritage management, Charoenpot imparts her views on
the future development of Thai museums and their collections.
March 2, 2006
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2006 Mayer
Center Symposium
Sponsored by the Frederick and Jan
Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art and
the William Sharpless Jackson Jr. Endowment
Basin
(Lebrillo)
Mexico, late 1600s
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Symposium:
"Asia and Spanish America: Trans-Pacific Artistic and Cultural
Exchange, 1500-1850"
During
the sixteenth century Spain established an extensive connection
with Asia through its port at Manila in the Philippines. Asian
merchants brought their trade goods to Manila where they were
purchased by Spanish traders. Loaded onto galleon ships, they
made the journey across the Pacific to Mexico and the Spanish
Americas. A large number of goods were shipped to Spain, but many
objects remained in the Americas where they inspired local artists
in many media. Asian immigrants, including artists, also made
the long journey to the Americas in search of lucrative professions.
A major industry for export goods to Europe and the Americas developed
in Asia–Chinese porcelains, Japanese lacquers, printed cottons
from India, and ivory carvings of Christian saints from China,
Goa, and the Philippines. In exchange, silver coinage was sent
to Asia, where it was used for currency. This symposium brings
together scholars of Asian and Spanish colonial arts and explores
new fields of scholarship that focus on interdisciplinary, multicultural,
and global studies. The proceedings of the symposium will be published
at a future date.
Gauvin Bailey: The
Influence of Asian Art in the Spanish and Portuguese Americas
Clara Bargellini: Asia at the Spanish
Missions of Northern New Spain
Roxanna M. Brown: Shipwreck Evidence
for the China-Manila Ceramics Trade
Gustava Curiel: Asian Motifs in
the Decorative Arts of Viceregal Mexico
Abby Sue Fisher: Trade Textiles—Asia
and Spanish America
Evelyn Hu-Dehart: Asian Diaspora
in Spanish America
George Kuwayama: Chinese Porcelain
in Viceregal Mexico
Meiko Nagashima: Japanese Lacquers
Exported to Spanish America and Spain
Sonia Ocaña: Use of Japanese
Ornamental Motifs New Spanish Enconchado (Shell-Inlay) Painting
Jorge Rivas: Asian Taste in Latin
American Spanish Colonial Furniture
Etsuko Rodríguez: Early Manila
Galleon Trade—Merchants’ Network and the Market in
New Spain
Sofia Sanabrais: The Globalization
of Taste—Japanese and New Spanish Folding Screens
Mari Takamatsu: Namban—Japanese
Screen Paintings
Marjorie Trusted: Baroque Ivory
Sculptures in Viceregal America and the Philippines
November 3 and 4, 2006
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