Irene Backus Ph.D. Candidate, Art History Department University of Chicago Friday, May 27, 4- 6 pm CWAC 156 Asia Materialized: Perceptions of China in Renaissance Florence Abstract: Asia Materialized: Perceptions of China in Renaissance Florence,” examines how three of the most highly valued Chinese imports—porcelain, refined silk textiles, and spices—shaped Italian Renaissance artistic and technological [...]
Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia
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May 20, Fu Yanghua
Fu Yanghua Associate Professor, School of Arts Renmin University Friday, May 20, 4:00- 6:00 pm Location: CWAC 156 Trapped Hope: Yang Bu’s Ten-Leaf Album of Yearning Ancient Sages and His Ambivalence Abstract: Yang Bu（杨补） (1598-1657) was a renowned poet and painter in the 17th century. He lived through a difficult period for many Confucian scholar [...]
May 5, Shih-Shan Susan Huang
Shih-Shan Susan Huang Assistant Professor, Art History Department Rice University Thursday, May 5, 4:30- 6:30 pm Location: CWAC 152 True Form Charts and the Daoist Visuality Abstract: Daoist visuality is unique in its notion of zhenxing 真形or “true form,” a term coined by medieval Daoists and documented throughout numerous texts of that time. Broadly speaking, [...]
April 22, Xu Jin
Xu Jin Ph.D. student, Art History Department University of Chicago Friday, April 22, 4- 6 pm CWAC 156 Displaying Filial Piety: Spatial Design of a Sodgian Immigrant Tomb in Sixth-century China Abstract: With a unique bilingual inscription and an intricate pictorial program, Lord Shi’s house-shaped sarcophagus has received increasing attention from historians, linguists, art historians, [...]
April 15, Xu Xiwen
Xu Xiwen Associate Professor, Southeast University, China Visiting scholar, University of Chicago Friday, April 15, 4- 6 pm CWAC 156 Beyond Borders: On the hanging scroll Lady Wen-Chi Returning to China attributed to Chen Juzhong at the National Palace Museum of Taipei Abstract: Lady Wen-chi story has been a popular subject in painting and poetry, [...]
April 8, Li Qingquan
Li Qingquan Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Visiting scholar, Harvard University Friday, April 8, 4- 6 pm CWAC 156 The Image of Tomb Masters and the Transformation of Funerary Culture from Tang to Song dynaties Abstract: Until the Tang dynasty, tomb masters were a popular image in tomb mural paintings. During the Tang, it nearly [...]
Mar 11, Shi Jie
Shi Jie Ph.D. Candidate, Art History University of Chicago Friday, March 11, 4- 6 pm CWAC 156 The Body Beyond Flesh and Bone: Unpacking the Body Construction in Western Han Princely Tombs Abstract: Focusing on the issue of the “deceased subject” in Western Han princely tombs, this paper asks how this subject was constructed by [...]
Feb 25, James Elkins
James Elkins Associate Professor, Department of Art history, Theory, and Criticism Art Institute of Chicago Friday, February 25, 4- 6 pm CWAC 156 Five Forms of Misunderstanding Regarding Contemporary Art Criticism and Theory: Observations on the Contemporary Study of Chinese Art Abstract: This is going to be a very informal talk, more like a sketch [...]
Feb 11, Ankeney Weitz
Ankeney Weitz Associate Professor, Art and East Asian Studies Colby College, Maine Friday, February 11, 4-6 pm CWAC 156 A Social History of Painted Fans in the Song Dynasty Abstract: Across the Song empire, people of all ages, genders, and ranks carried fans emblazoned with decorative designs appropriate to their status and expressive of their [...]
Jan 21, Andrew Shih-ming Pai
Andrew Shih-ming Pai Associate Professor, National Taiwan Normal University Friday, January 21, 4- 6 pm CWAC 156 Modernity in Agony: Contemporaneity and the Representation of Modern Life in Colonial Taiwanese Art Abstract: Since the Japanese took power in Taiwan, the colonial government initiated “modernization” programs systematically and carried out political, economic, cultural and educational reforms [...]