Raising Spirits: Art and Wine in East Asia, from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco,
is a multi-media presentation that takes the audience back to the earliest connections between wine, art, culture and history and explores how ancient East Asian cultures first “raised a glass of wine” some 9,000 years ago. In this 40-minute photographic journey, Raising Spirits weaves fun and entertaining tid-bits and lore showing ancient wine’s wide-ranging impacts, from poetry to etiquette.
Find out how: Chinese Shang dynasty kings offered wine to their ancestors,
assuring peace for the dynasty;
The Japanese tea ceremony was simply and beautifully interlaced by servings of sake;
The famous Tang dynasty poet, Li Bai, wrote poems describing “liquors of taste and vessels of finesse;”
and Korean earthenware stem cups jingled with a musical quality when their soju was hoisted in celebration.
Cheers, Ganbei, Chukbae, Kampai!
As a docent at the Asian Art Museum and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco for over ten years, Kirsten Ditterich-Shilakes has “walked and talked” art in daunting breadth ranging from 2nd century Buddhas to deKooning’s abstract expressionism. In recent years she has been “on the road” with her multimedia presentations exposing surprising touch-points between the worlds of art and wine, constantly enticing audiences to look at art in a brand new way. Kirsten recently authored “Muse in a Stem Glass: Art, Wine and Philosophy,” included in Wine and Philosophy (Blackwell Publishing, 2007) which features iconic wine-related works of art from the Asian Art Museum and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Educated at U.C. Berkeley, Kirsten speaks Mandarin, has lived and worked in China, and is the author of Pop Mandarin: A Postmodern Phrasebook from Fengshui to Wall Street(2005).
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