Thesiss

The Zen monk Sesshū Tōyō (1420 - ca. 1506) is among the most lauded painters in the history of Japanese art, a reputation in no small part due to his unique status as the first professional painter of the premodern period to travel to China and the only Japanese painter to study…

As Carlos Ginsburg pointed out, “What is much harder to reject in principle (but also as much harder and more laborious to achieve) is an analytical reconstruction of the intricate web of minute relations that underlies the production of any work of art, however simple”, my proj…