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Feltens, Frank

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Selected Publications

  • Article

    • Feltens, Frank and Lippit, Yukio. 2022. "Mind Over Matter: Zen Monk-Painters in Medieval Japan." Arts of Asia, Mar 15, 2022, 52, (no. 1), 2022
    • Feltens, Frank. 2022. "Mind Over Matter: Zen in Medieval Japan." Orientations, Mar 1, 2022, 52, (2), 2022
    • Feltens, Frank. 2020. "Meeting Tessai: works by Tomioka Tessai from the Mary and Cheney Cowles Collection." Orientations, 51, (3 (May/June)) 84–93. 2020
    • Feltens, Frank. 2020. "「忘れられた巨匠:コウルズ・コレクションにみる富岡鉄斎」 (A Forgotten Star: Tomioka Tessai in the Cowles Collection)." Shūbi, 35, (Spring) 12–19. 2020
    • Feltens, Frank. 2019. "Ogata Kōrin: Stumbling into His Artistic Legacy." Impressions (New York), 40 163–183. 2019
    • Feltens, Frank. 2019. "東瀛屏話-佛利爾美術館日本屏風館藏訪談錄 (Visiting Japanese Screens at the Freer Gallery of Art: An Interview with Frank Feltens." 湖上 Hushang, 12, (Spring) 179–190. 2019
    • Feltens, Frank. 2018. ""Butsuzō: Katachi ni natta shinkō" (Buddhist Sculptures: Embodied Faith)." Bessatsu taiyō, 269 41–53. 2018
    • Feltens, Frank. 2018. ""Chūsei kaigaL Sumi to iro no kōkyōkyoku" (Medieval Painting: Symphony of Ink and Color)." Bessatsu taiyō, 269 11–39. 2018
    • Feltens, Frank. 2018. ""Edo kaiga: Kenran wo himotoku" (Edo-Period Paintings: Discovery Beauty)." Bessatsu taiyō, 269 117–139. 2018
    • Feltens, Frank. 2018. ""Kano-ha: Kaiga to kōbō" (The Kano School: Paintings and Workshop Practice)." Bessatsu taiyō, 269 55–73. 2018
    • Feltens, Frank. 2018. ""Rinpa: Monogatari to ka no hazama" (Rinpa: Between Tales and Flowers)." Bessatsu taiyō, 269 75–98. 2018
    • Feltens, Frank. 2018. ""Sakai Hōitsu Ume zu" (Sakai Hōitsu's Plum Tree)." Kokka, 1477 32–36. 2018
    • Feltens, Frank. 2018. ""Ukiyo-e nikuhitsu: Ukiyo-e no hatō" (Ukiyoe Paintings: Ukiyoe Waves)." Bessatsu taiyō, 269 99–115. 2018
    • Feltens, Frank. 2018. "「仏像:形になった信仰」(Buddhist Sculptures: Embodied Faith)." Bessatsu taiyō, 269 41–53. 2018
    • Feltens, Frank. 2017. "Sartorial Identity: Early Modern Japanese Textile Patterns and the Afterlife of Ogata Kōrin." Ars Orientalis, 47 117–157. 2017
    • Feltens, Frank. 2017. "「フリーア美術館、アーサー・M・サックラー・ギャラリー:アメリカの首都にある日本美術の殿堂」(The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: Treasure Houses of Japanese Art in the United States Capital)." Shūbi, 25 60–69. 2017
    • Feltens, Frank. 2017. "「光琳:天才の裏の人間像を探りながら」(Kōrin: Searching for the Human Being Behind the Genius)." Shūbi, 25 97–109. 2017
    • Feltens, Frank. 2015. "Traversing time: three centuries of Japanese art at the Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin." Orientations, 46, (7) 78–86. 2015
    • Feltens, Frank. 2015. "「新出浅草寺蔵酒井抱一下絵「南無仏庵本尊天竺仏像記」について 」(A Newly Discovered Handscroll at Sensōji with Paper Decor by Sakai Hōitsu)." Kokka, (1440) 30–39. 2015
    • Feltens, Frank. 2013. "Asian art treasures at the Toyokan: an interview with Matsumoto Nobuyuki." Orientations, 44, (5) 36–39. 2013
    • Feltens, Frank. 2012. "Immaculate concepts: in conversation with Hiroshi Sugimoto." Orientations, 43, (4) 66–70. 2012
    • Feltens, Frank. 2011. "Realist betweenness and collective victims: Domon Ken's Hiroshima." Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs, 11, (1) 64–75. 2011
  • Book

    • Feltens, Frank. 2021. Ogata Korin: Art in Early Modern Japan. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2021
    • Ulak, James T. and Feltens, Frank. 2018. Hokusai no nikuhitsu (Hokusai’s Brush: Paintings, Sketches, and Drawings by Katsushika Hokusai). Kyoto: Seigensha. 2018
  • Chapter

    • Feltens, Frank. 2020. "酒井抱一の料紙下絵 (Paper Décor by Sakai Hōitsu)." In Sensōji shozō jūhō mokuroku Kaigahen. Tokyo: Inshōsha. 2020

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Presentations

  • Presentation

    • Feltens, Frank. 2022. Art Talk with Smithsonian Curators [presentation]. April 22, 2022. Virtual, Zoom: Japan Information and Culture Center, JICC.
    • Feltens, Frank. 2021. Evolving Traditions: The Japanese Painting and Calligraphy Collection in the Freer Gallery of Art [presentation]. October 2, 2021. Richard J. Wood Curator Series. Zoom: Pulitzer Art Foundation, St. Louis.
    • Feltens, Frank. 2021. Evolving Traditions: The Japanese Painting and Calligraphy Collection in the Freer Gallery of Art [presentation]. October 7, 2021. Richard J. Wood Curator Series. Zoom: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
    • Feltens, Frank. 2022. Garden of Resonance: Jun Kaneko [presentation]. September 28, 2022. Zoom: Portland Japanese Garden.
    • Feltens, Frank. 2021. Hokusai: A Curatorial Perspective [presentation]. December 1, 2021. Japanese Art Society of America.
    • Feltens, Frank. 2022. Intercultural Art and Theory [presentation]. June 3, 2022. CASVA.
    • Feltens, Frank. 2022. Japanese Art And Why It Matters [presentation]. July 1, 2022. Foreign Service Institute.
    • Feltens, Frank. 2022. Japanese Art and Why It Matters [presentation]. September 2, 2022. US Department of State, Foreign Service Institute.
    • Feltens, Frank. 2020. Katsushika Hokusai and Charles Lang Freer [presentation]. Asian American Forum, February 28, 2020. Washington, DC.
    • Feltens, Frank. 2022. Mad About Painting: Hokusai & Freer [presentation]. May 24, 2022. Detroit Institute of Arts / Freer House.
    • Feltens, Frank. 2021. Modes of Making: Ogata Korin and Art in Early Modern Japan [presentation]. July 12, 2021. Heidelberg University.
    • Feltens, Frank. 2022. Ogata Korin [presentation]. February 20, 2022. Virtual, Zoom: Ikebana International.
    • Feltens, Frank. 2021. Ogata Korin: Art in Early Modern Japan [presentation]. November 4, 2021. Oriental Ceramics Society Hong Kong.
    • Feltens, Frank. 2022. Painting Flowers: The Art of Rinpa [presentation]. February 24, 2022. Wesleyan University.
    • Feltens, Frank. 2021. Painting Paradise Unraveling the Art of Daisuke Nakano [presentation]. July 8, 2021. Portland Japanese Garden.
    • Feltens, Frank. 2020. Painting flowers: the art of Rinpa [presentation]. April 30, 2020. Middletown, Connecticut.
    • Feltens, Frank. 2021. Towards the Future: Between Photographs and Prints in Meiji Era Japan [presentation]. Photography in Asia, 1839-1939, September 30, 2021. Charles University, Prague U6.

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