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Publication The Prints of Mary Huntoon(University of Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art, 2021-08-24) Meyer, Kate; Arft, SadiePublication Color in Ancient and Medieval East Asia(Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 2015) Dusenbury, MaryColor was a critical element in East Asian life and thought, but its importance has been largely overlooked in Western scholarship. This interdisciplinary volume explores the fascinating roles that color played in the society, politics, thought, art, and ritual practices of ancient and medieval East Asia (ca. 1600 B.C.E.–ca. 1400 C.E.). While the Western world has always linked color with the spectrum of light, in East Asian civilizations colors were associated with the specific plant or mineral substances from which they were derived. Many of these substances served as potent medicines and elixirs, and their transformative powers were extended to the dyes and pigments they produced. Generously illustrated, this groundbreaking publication constitutes the first inclusive study of color in East Asia. It is the outcome of years of collaboration between chemists, conservators, archaeologists, historians of art and literature, and scholars of Buddhism and Daoism from the United States, East Asia, and Europe.Publication Trees & Other Ramifications: Branches in Nature and Culture(Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 2009-01-01) Goddard, Stephen; Hardy, Saralyn Reece; Krishtalka, LeonardTrees & Other Ramifications explores both works of art that were inspired by trees and images from the arts and sciences in which trees have served as a metaphor for real and imagined branching systems—for example, works about family trees, the tree of knowledge, and Darwin's evolutionary tree of life.Publication Savior as Ascetic, Shakyamuni Undergoing Austerities by Kano Kazunobu(University of Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art, 2010-07-01) Graham, Patricia J.An introduction of the Japanese Buddhist painting portraying a haunting image of an emaciated, half-naked man by the Japanese artist Kano Kazunobu (1815–1863), collected by the Spencer Museum of Art’s Asian art gallery.Publication Early Modern Japanese Art History: An Overview of the State of the Field(University of Kansas, Center for East Asian Studies, 2002-09-01) Graham, Patricia J.