Spencer Museum of Art

The Franklin D. Murphy Lectures in Art is a series of lectures by distinguished art historians delivered annually at the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, in honor of Franklin D. Murphy, former chancellor of the University of Kansas. The lectures are published in handsome, fully-illustrated cloth-bound volumes. (Numbers II, IV, VI were never published) Booksellers obtain the Murphy Lecture publications through University of Washington Press 1-800-441-4115.

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Murphy Lecture I
Chardin: New Thoughts, by Pierre Rosenberg, chief curator of paintings at the Louvre in Paris, resolves several perplexing details of Chardin's life and addresses the difficult problem of his drawings. 1983
94 pages; 57 b&w and 1 color illus.; ISBN 0-913689-11-4; $25.00

Murphy Lecture III
Jade and Silk of Han China, by Xia Nai, director of the Institute of Archaeology in Beijing, focuses on the new discoveries of China's past. The manuscript was translated and edited by Dr. Chu-tsing Li of the University of Kansas. 1983
88 pages; 77 b&w and 1 color illus.; ISBN 0-913689-10-6; $25.00

Murphy Lecture V
Programs of Medieval Illumination, by Robert G. Calkins, professor of art history at Cornell University, examines two high points of medieval illumination. The first concerns developments in the Middle Ages, and the second deals with changes at the beginning of the 15th century. 1984
158 pages, 104 b&w and 1 color illus.; ISBN 0-913689-12-2; $25.00

Murphy Lecture VII
Playfulness in Japanese Art, by Nobuo Tsuji, professor of art history at the University of Tokyo, proposes the idea that playfulness is not merely an occasional addition to Japanese aesthetics, but an important underlying principle that emerges in every age through a variety of art forms. 1986
112 pages; 85 b&w and 1 color illus.; ISBN 0-913689-23-8; $25.00

Murphy Lecture VIII
The Meaning of the Mark: Leonardo and Titian, by David Rosand, professor of art history at Columbia University, presents two lectures-one on drawing, the other on painting-with the thesis that profound meaning lies on the surface of a work of art. 1988
96 pages; 100 b&w and 1 color illus.; ISBN 0-913689-01-7; $25.00

Murphy Lecture IX
Three Alternative Histories of Chinese Painting, by James Cahill, professor of art history at the University of California, Berkeley, discusses the history of Chinese painting within political, functional, and stylistic contexts. 1988
112 pages; 84 b&w and 1 color illus.; ISBN 0-913689-28-9; $25.00

Murphy Lecture X
Art and the Natural World in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Three Essays, by William Vaughan, professor of art history at the University of London, examines the relationship between the burgeoning scientific exploration of the natural world in the 19th century and British visual arts of the time. 1991
84 pages; 56 b&w illus.; ISBN 0-913689-33-5; $30.00

Murphy Lecture XI
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Two Studies, by Walter Gibson, professor of art history at Case Western Reserve University, presents an analysis of Bruegel's well-known painting Triumph of Death and a discussion of the peasant in 16th-century thought. 1992
96 pages; 81 b&w illus.; ISBN 0-913689-32-7; $30.00

Murphy Lecture XII
A Time of Transition: Two Collectors of Chinese Art, by Thomas Lawton, Senior Research Scholar at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution, examines the lives of Viceroy Tuan-fang and Dr. John C. Ferguson, both influential collectors at the time of transition between the old and the new China. 1997 ©1991
116 pages; 70 b&w illus.; ISBN 0-913689-30-0; $35.00

Murphy Lecture XIV - The Liturgy of Love: Images from the Song of Songs in the Art of Cimabue, Michelangelo and Rembrandt.
Three essays by Marilyn Aronberg Lavin and Irving Lavin explore masterpieces of European art that depict the relationship between spiritual and physical love as expressed in the biblical Song of Songs.
160 pp., hardcover, 129 b&w and 3 color illus. ISBN 0-913689-36-x $35.00

Murphy Lecture XVII - Civil Rights in Oz: Images of Kansas in American Popular Art
By Karal Ann Marling, professor of art history and American studies at the University of Minnesota, looks at Norman Rockwell's The Problem We All Live With, concerning Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, and various versions of Oz and Kansas from L. Frank Baum to Hollywood studio portrayals. 1998 ©1997
42 pages; 26 b&w illus.; ISBN 0-913689-44-0; $35.00