Recently acquired by the Sheldon, Helen Frankenthaler's 34-color woodblock print Tale of Genji I is a visual meditation on an 11th-century literary work written by Murasaki Shikibu, a lady-in-waiting in Japan's imperial court. The Tale of Genji follows the life of fictional Prince Genji, the disowned son of an ancient emperor.
Karen Kunc, artist/printmaker and professor emeritus, and Ikuho Amano, associate professor and Japanese at the University of Nebraska, will give insight to the Frankenthaler artwork - and the novel that inspired it - in a live Zoom event, Thursday, September 17, 5:30 pm Central, moderated by Melissa Yuen, associate curator of exhibitions at Sheldon.
Register at go.unl.edu/tale-of-genji