"23rd Annual Michele Berton Memorial Lecture on Japanese Art 23rd Annual Michele Berton Memorial Lecture on Japanese Art Japanese Modern Art in the World: Global Modernism from a Local Perspective"

Alicia Volk, Assistant Professor of Japanese Art History at the University of Maryland, will focus on oil painter Yorozu Tetsugorô, who devoted his career to the defining challenge of Japanese modern art: resolving the sometimes uneasy relationships between native and foreign, and past and present.