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Visually spell-binding exhibition even if I can’t read or understand Japanese. I find that the content of art is the ungraspable, inherent “art” itself, rather than “story”. It connects and communicates to us as humans.
And yes desire for context comes from the transporting power of the art. It made me wish to revisit the novel, or at least parts of it.
Excellent post! I particularly endorse the point about the growing intellectual disparity between the big museums’ blockbuster shows, which bust ever bigger blocks, while exhibitions about lesser known, historical subjects abandon the lay visitor, who may require some help with context, and let the academics, as you say, talk among themselves. However, may I question the oft-repeated characterization of The Tale of Genji as “the world’s first novel”? What do we call the Satyricon of Petronius, which predates it by more than 1000 years? The principal difference I see between them is that portions of the Satyricon are lost.
Perhaps the editors (and Carrier) should get Mur-A-saki’s name right before critiquing the lack of text in the exhibition.
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