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Paneled Art in East Asian Handscrolls and Comics

Exhibit: East Asian Handscrolls and Comics at UCSB Library

Posted on | by Thomas Mazanec

Visual Pleasure through Private Gaze: Paneled Art in East Asian Handscrolls and Comics

Fri, 10/07/2022 – 8:00am to Tue, 06/20/2023 – 5:00pm
Exhibition Location: Art & Architecture Collection
UCSB Library is pleased to present this exhibition of handscrolls and comics from its Art & Architecture Collection. Both forms of art are consumed and enjoyed by individual users, panel by panel, and both are used in teaching and research at UCSB.
Painted horizontally on narrow sheets of paper or silk, handscroll paintings are a unique type of  East Asian painting. Handscrolls are typically 0.7-1.2 feet in width, but their length varies from just a few feet to dozens of feet. Viewed frame by frame, handscroll paintings present art that progresses temporally and spatially. Handscrolls are considered the prototype of modern comics, a medium which similarly expresses ideas with images. The Japanese handscroll Chōjū-jinbutsu-giga 鳥獣人物戯画 (literally Animal-person Caricatures), for example, is considered the oldest Japanese comic, or manga.
Exhibition curated by librarians Chizu Morihara and Yao Chen.
To learn more about the collections, please see the UCSB Library’s announcement.
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East Asian Information Literacy Tutorial Series

Posted on | by Thomas Mazanec

We are pleased to share the news that the East Asian Information Literacy Tutorial Series (Phase I), created by UCSB Librarian for East Asian Studies Yao Chen, has been completed and released. This is a series of short tutorials to contextualize Information Literacy concepts in the field of East Asian Studies. Phase I includes 13 close-captioned videos about 3-6 minutes long each. This series can support and complement research-related courses and be used by students at their point of need.

This project is funded by the Librarians Association of the University of California and the University of California, Santa Barbara Library. It was created by Yao Chen, with the collaboration of a group of librarians in North America on it. EALCS Ph.D. candidate Linshan Jiang was also a part of the project.

We hope you could consider using this Series to supplement teaching and learning and welcome your feedback and suggestions. Please help share with whoever may find it useful.