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Wednesday, October 26, 1977
University Daily Kansan
KU buys Japanese books
By MARY ANN OLIVAR
Staff Writer
The Japanese art book collection at the University of Kansas has gone from famine to feast with the arrival of 66 boxes of Japanese art books recently purchased by KU.
the new 2,000-volume collection is one of the five best private collections of Japanese art books in the United States and with it KU will have one of the better Japanese art books available today. Stephen Addisia, assistant professor of East Asian art history, said this week.
The collection, which belonged to Harold P. Stern, late Japanese art scholar and director of the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., includes periodicals, books, and articles covering all aspects of Japanese art, according to Martha Kehle, art librarian.
Explaining that Japanese art was an area which needed strengthening, Jim Ranz, dean of libraries, said the $2,500 paid for the collection was a reasonable price.
THE FRIENDS of the Library contributed $5,000 for the collection and $2,000 came from a Kress Foundation art grant. The materials were used to pay the balance of the cost.
Pat Graham, New Rochelle, N.Y., graduate student who helped upack the books, said, "we are going from nothing to everything," referring to the small number of Japanese art books KU libraries had previously.
Graham, who is working on her Ph.D. in art history, explained that students had to go to the Nelson Art Gallery, Kansas City, for a get access to most Japanese art books.
"And even then," she said, "we couldn't check them out."
According to Graham, many Japanese pieces of art are in private collections and the only way to see them is either in exhibits or in catalogues produced for the exhibits.
THE CATALOGUES are difficult to obtain, Kebbe said, but fortunately Stern's sword was the most reliable.
About half the collection is in Japanese and the other half in English, Adds said.
Stern's collection covers all aspects of Japanese art, also. However, according to Kehde, there is a special emphasis on okyuke art because it was Stern's specialty. He developed the technique of painting and print-making developed from the 17th century to the 19th century.
Kehde did not know when the entire collection, which will be displayed in the Art Library in Watson, would be available to the public.
Almost 50 women, most of them KU students, all of them over 21 and many in their 38s and 66, gathered last night to watch a new film called "The Maturing Woman."
Julie Gordon, assistant dean of women, said the meeting grew from weekly lunches for older women students held in the dean of women's office.
Women students discuss aging
One issue that up at those lunches was age and how it felt to be an older woman on a campus population by 18-to-21-years, Gordon said.
Vivian McCoy, director of the Adult Life Resource Center, spoke about Alex
Comfort's book, "The Good Age," and said that to understand the problems of aging one must understand feelings about aging.
To help understand these feelings, the film addressed such issues as age and sexuality, older women dating younger people, older adults and stereotypes of older people.
The women gathered in small groups after the film to discuss the issues it had raised.
Women about 45 described the restrictions of motherhood, while single
women in their 30s talked of the anxiety of being childless.
A young woman described the freedom her mother felt when her children were grown, and a woman considering motherhood talked of her determination to continue writing poetry, even if it was difficult to hand and holding the baby with the other.
Laughter filled the Kansas Union's Big Eight Room as one woman after another said. "Oh, yes. I've felt that too."
The Tuesday lunches for older women students will continue in the dean of women's office.
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