University Daily Kansan, November 14, 1984
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Playfulness of art discussed
By DAVID LASSITER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
A work of art that depicted the death of Budda as a squash was used to illustrate playfulness in Japanese art during a lecture last night by a professor of art history from the University of Tokyo.
Nobuo Tsuji, the guest lecturer, showed slides and talked about the attitude of playfulness frequently found in Japanese art to a crowd of about 70 in the auditorium of the Forsman Spencer Museum of Art.
The museum and the Nelson Gallery of Art in Kansas City, Mo. work together each year to bring a lecturer to the Kansas City area, said
Stephen Addiss, professor and chairman of the art history department.
"We're fortunate to have the money and the prestige to bring in top people from all over the world." Addiss said. "Not because of what they teach us, but because they may us a different way to look at art."
Tsuji is well-known for his unusual perspective of Japanese art, Addiss said. He spends time studying the Japanese artists and their works.
"He has an eye for the unusual," Addiss said, "which makes his onions quite delightful."
Tsuji said the loftiness and religious aspects of Japanese art were discussed often. When examined,
strength can be found in the play fulness of the art, he said.
"I'm trying to conjure a new regard to the essence of Japanese art," Tsui said.
Tsuji showed slides of helmets worn by early Japanese warriors that were intended to intimidate their opponents.
Tsuji spoke at the Nelson Gallery of Art on Nov. 1 about playfulness in the earlier period of Japanese art. Tsuji came to the United States primarily to visit the two art museums, Addiss said.
Besides the two lectures Tsuji conducted during his two week stay, he led seven graduate-level seminars in which he discussed the influence of the Chinese on Japanese art.
Help sought in adoption case
By United Press International
CHASE — Police Chief John Grubb says he is frustrated with the "foot dragging" of federal agencies investigating allegations of fraud against an Arizona adoption agency.
Grubb yesterday said he had sent a letter to President Reagan on Oct. 15, asking him to speed up the federal investigation of Casas Para Los Ninos, a Willcox, Ariz., private adoption agency accused of cheating couples in Kansas and 30 other states.
No charges have been filed in the investigation that started in De-
member 1983. The probe is being conducted by the FBI and three other federal agencies.
The adoption agency has been accused of failing to deliver babies to couples, including 14 Kansas couples who paid from $3,000 to $10,000 in advance for the children. The agency offered to join U.S. mothers whose mothers were willing to give them up for adoption.
At least 186 couples from 35 states other than Kansas have come forward with similar experiences from their dealings with the same adoption agency, Grubb said.
Grubb started the investigation
which was later taken over by federal officials, after he was approached by a Chase couple who asked him to provide for a baby they never received.
"I've spent close to $4,000 of my own money on this investigation because that's how strongly I feel that something has to be done," said Grubb.
Grubb's letter to Reagan gives the case's background, lists the four federal agencies involved and complains that despite an almost two-year investigation, nothing has been done for the couples who paid for children they did not receive.
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