 Public programs are free of charge unless otherwise noted. For information, call 212-998-6780. Lectures
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Wednesday, September 20, 6 pm Global Strategies of Multinational Firms Thursday, September 14, 11:30 am, Henry Kaufman Management Center, New York University, 44 West Fourth Street, Room 260 A lecture by Yoshiharu
Fukuhara, Chairman, Shiseido Co., Ltd., followed by a panel discussion
with Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Samuelson, Professor Emeritus,
Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and
three faculty members of The Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New
York University: Ryuzo Sato, Director, Center for U.S.–Japan Business
and Economic Studies; Susan Douglas, Professor of Marketing and
International Business; and Richard Sylla, Professor of Economics, who
will moderate. Women, Youths, and Men: Male-Male Eroticism and the Age/Gender System of Tokugawa Japan Friday, September 22, 4 pm, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1 East 78th Street Aspects of physical
appearance such as hairstyle and apparel have functioned throughout the
history of Japan as important markers of personal identity and social
status. Gregory M. Pflugfelder, Assistant Professor, Department of East
Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, examines the Tokugawa
period preceding the emergence of modern Japan, in particular the
tonsorial and sartorial practices that regulated and structured erotic
desires. Special attention will be given to semiotic codes surrounding
the male body and to the status of the wakashu (youth), who was
regarded as a legitimate object of male as well as female sexual
desires. Creating Classics: Uses of the Past in
Shiseido Advertising and Package Design Wednesday, October 11, 6 pm, Main Building, New York University, Room 300 (enter at 32 Waverly Place)
The Art of Selling Beauty: Michiko Shimamori, Editor in Chief of Koukoku Hihyo (Advertising Critique), and a cultural and literary critic, presents perspectives on advertising's methods, language and cultural effects, exploring the media’s role in the shaping of beauty culture in Japan. Sayoko Yamaguchi: At her Paris debut in 1972, Sayoko Yamaguchi created a sensation, and she soon achieved international fame as the ultimate Japanese beauty. She will discuss her role in showing Japanese beauty to the world through her work as a model, costume designer, and dancer. Moderated by Christine Shea, Director of Beauty, Harper’s Bazaar. Followed by a reception. The Role of Cosmetics in Art, Fashion,
and Society Cosmetics have had a tremendous impact on society by shaping and promoting ideals of beauty. This panel discussion examines the evolution of twentieth-century concepts of beauty in the arts and fashion and explores issues of aesthetics, gender, ethnicity and cultural values—particularly the interplay between Japanese and Western ideals. Panelists are Keiko Imai, Fashion Director, Shiseido Corporate Culture Department; Kathy Peiss, Chair, Department of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and author of Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture; Gennifer Weisenfeld, Assistant Professor of Art History, Duke University. Moderated by Lynn Gumpert. Cosponsored by the Grey Art Gallery, Japan Society, Sepia International, Inc., and Shiseido Co., Ltd. Transportation provided by JAL. Series subscription: $27; Japan Society members and NYU i.d. holders, $21. Single tickets, $10, Japan Society members and NYU i.d. holders, $8, students $5. For more information and to purchase tickets, call 212/752-3015.
Seeing His Own Absence: Yasumasa Morimura's Photographic Self-Portraits Yasumasa Morimura's self-portraits put into question the relation of East and West, male and female, photography and self-portraiture; Joonsung Yoon, doctoral candidate, Department of Art and Art Professions, New York University, re-examines this process as a form of deconstruction and a cultural paradigm of the self. Making-Up Gender, Sexuality, and Self-Presence: Annie Liebovitz’s Women and Helmut Newton’s Immorale Drawing on photographs by Annie Liebovitz and Helmut Newton among others, Susan Sterling, makeup artist for fashion and art photography represented by FRAME agency, New York, addresses the role of makeup in the representation of gender, sexuality, and individual/ethnic identity.
Benjamin Binstock, Assistant Professor of Art History and Critical Theory and Head, Critical Studies Area, Department of Art and Art Professions, New York University, relates his colleagues’ discussions back to vicissitudes of the face in the history of art from Rembrandt to Warhol, offering an account of deconstruction as art history. Cosponsored by the Grey Art Gallery and
the Department of Art and Art Professions, School of Education, New York
University, in conjunction Derrida Month. For more information, call
212/998-5799 or visit www.nyu.edu/projects/derrida. Shinzo and Roso Fukuhara: Photographs by
Ginza Modern Boys, 1913–1941 Drawn from the Shiseido Corporate Museum collection, this exhibition presents photographs and related objects demonstrating the contributions of Shinzo and Roso Fukuhara—two "modern boys" who were sons of Shiseido’s founder—to the development of modern photography in Japan. On Friday, September 15, at 5:30 pm, Yoshiharu Fukuhara, Chairman, Shiseido Co., Ltd., and nephew of Shinzo and Roso Fukuhara, will discuss their lives and work with Mr. E. Alkazi, Founder and Chairman of Sepia International, Inc. and The Alkazi Collection of Photography. Followed by an opening reception. Seating is limited. For required reservations, call 212/645-9444. |