Christine Guth considers some of the ways in which Hokusai's celebrated 1831 woodcut Under the Wave off Kanagawa, popularly known as The Great Wave, has participated in American popular culture during the past twenty-five years. She focuses particularly on the role of the museum store in mediating its reception, interpretation, and dissemination through the sale of consumer goods featuring adaptations of the design.
Return to Krannert Art Museum on March 5 at 5:30 pm for Collecting East Asian Art Gallery Conversation and Book Discussion of Longfellow's Tattoos: Tourism, Collecting, and Japan with Christine Guth, Lee Wonsik (Professor Emeritus, Kinki University, Osaka, Japan) and Anne Burkus-Chasson.

Hosted by:  Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion

In conjunction with: Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, College of Fine and Applied Art, Department of Anthropology, Department of East Asian Languages and Culture, Department of English, Department of History, Japan House, Program in Art History, School of Art and Design, Society of Art History and Archaeology, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory