Our final lecture, which winds up the series (except for a postlude and two addenda), deals with the many Chan-associated paintings preserved in Japan that are grouped here, loosely, under the term Sōgenga. It concludes with the surviving works from two series of "Eight Views of the Xiao-Xiang Region," one attributed to Muqi, the other by Yujian—paintings that can be taken as representing the last stage in the long development of landscape painting in China that has been the central subject of this series.
Patenaude will discuss his new book, Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary, which describes Leon Trotsky's last years in Mexico in the late 1930s. At the center of this gripping and tragic story are Trotsky's tumultuous friendship with painter Diego Rivera; his affair with Rivera's wife, artist Frida Kahlo; and his torment as his family and comrades become victims of the Great Terror and Stalin's assassins close in.
Bertrand Patenaude is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a lecturer in History and International Relations at Stanford University. He is the author and editor of several books, including most recently Trotsky: Downfall of a Revolutionary (HarperCollins, 2009).
"Saving the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: An Ecosystem & Water Delivery System in Crisis"
Richard M. Frank - Executive Director, California Center for Environmental Law & Policy; Professor, UC Berkeley School of Law
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