The Velaslavasay Panorama
1122 W 24th St
213.746.2166
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Special Event
The Panorama-kan of Meiji Japan: An Illustrated Lecture by Dr. Machiko Kusahara
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Vicksburg Panorama: Nippon Kan in Asakusa, Tokyo. (From the collection of Dr. Machiko Kusahara.)
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Saturday Jan 16, 2010 (8pm)
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- Price
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$10
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Located at the prewar Union Theater in historic West Adams, the Velaslavasay Panorama reinvigorates the lost tradition of panoramic painting — an art form where the spectator is surrounded by a 360-degree rendering. Now, LA's only theater with a circular painting in its rotunda hosts media scholar Dr. Machiko Kusahara in a lecture on the short-lived but no less dynamic period of panoramic painting during Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912). Dr. Kusahara's illustrated presentation includes research on the Japanese panoramas' artistic construction as well as the social role the panoramas played in 1890s Japan.
