A seminar celebrating the launch of a new book by University of Sydney graduate Rhiannon Paget.
Ando Hiroshige, Asakusa Ricefields and Torinomachi Festival, 1857
Why do cats feature so popularly in Japanese art? Join us on a book talk by Dr Rhiannon Paget, who will be exploring the stories and rich symbolism behind the depictions of these charming feline figures, examining woodblock prints, paintings, screens, and more. All welcome!
Presented by the discipline of Art History at the University of Sydney
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Rhiannon Paget
Rhiannon Paget is the Curator of Asian Art at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Florida State University. She has published research on paintings, textiles, popular visual culture, and especially woodblock prints. Her most recent books are Divine Felines: The Cat in Japanese Art (2023), Japanese Prints in Transition: From the Floating World to the Modern World (2023), and Saitō Kiyoshi: Graphic Awakening (2021). Co-authored titles include Hiroshige: Nature and the City (2023) and Hiroshige & Eisen: The Sixty-Nine Stations along the Kisokaidō (2017, winner of the 2018 IFPDA Book Award). She has curated numerous exhibitions, including Mountains of the Mind: Scholars’ Rocks in China and Beyond (2023–24), and Saitō Kiyoshi: Graphic Awakening (2021). Prior to joining The Ringling, she was the A. W. Mellon Fellow for Japanese Art, where she curated the exhibition A Century of Japanese Prints (2017) and co-curated Conflicts of Interest: Art and War in Modern Japan (2016–17). She holds a PhD from the University of Sydney, Australia.