Department: History of Art and Architecture
Email:lippit@fas.harvard.edu
Harvard University
Bio: Yukio Lippit received his B.A. (1993) in Literature from Harvard University and his M.A. (1998) and Ph.D. (2003) in Art and Archaeology from Princeton University. He specializes in Japanese painting of the medieval and early modern periods. His book Painting of the Realm: The Kano House of Painters in Seventeenth-Century Japan (University of Washington Press, 2012) explores the ways in which attendant painters to the Tokugawa shogun developed a genealogical mode of painting that conditioned emerging historical views of Japanese painting. Painting of the Realm was awarded both the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award by the College Art Association and the John Whitney Hall Book Prize by the Association for Asian Studies.
Publications:
Lippit, Yukio, and Mark Mulligan. The Thinking Hand: Tools and Traditions of the Japanese Carpenter. Cambridge: Edwin O. Reischauer Institute, 2014.
Lippit, Yukio. Colorful Realm: Japanese Bird-and-Flower Paintings by Itō Jakuchū. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2012.
Lippit, Yukio. Painting the Realm: The Kanō House Painters in Seventeenth-century Japan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012.
Lippit, Yukio, and Gregory Levine. Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan. Boston: Japan Society, 2007.
Lippit, Yukio. “Of Modes and Manners in Japanese Ink Painting: Sesshū's Splashed Ink Landscape of 1495.” The Art Bulletin 94, no. 1 (2012): 50-77.
Lippit, Yukio. “Apparition Painting.” RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, no. 55/56 (2009): 61-86.
Lippit, Yukio. “Goryeo Buddhist Painting in an Interregional Context.” Ars Orientalis, no. 35 (2008): 192-232.
Lippit, Yukio. “Tawaraya Sotatsu and the Watery Poetics of Japanese Ink Painting.” RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, no. 51 (2007): 57-76.