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Listings below are organized chronologically.
Asia House
London, UK
Part I: Beginnings (1 February - 15 March 2008)
Part II: A New Generation (1 April- 24 May 2008)
[courtesy of A. Dunne, 4/10/08]
5 February 2008
Rana Mitter (University of Oxford), "An Era of Turmoil From War to Revolution in China, 1931–1976"
The mid-twentieth century saw China go through a period of almost constant upheaval, shaped by the horror of war and the fires of revolution. The lecture will cover the Japanese invasion of China, the civil war that followed, and the cataclysmic changes that came with the arrival of Chairman Mao, concentrating not just on political events but on the human stories that underpinned the era. Rana Mitter is University Lecturer in the History and Politics of Modern China, University of Oxford.
20 February 2008
Michael Sullivan, "Modern Chinese Art: The Story of the Sullivan Collection"
Khoan and Michael Sullivan never set out to be collectors, but over the years, beginning in west China in the 1940s, they came to know a number of artists who gave them their works, while recently they acquired a few more by purchase. Michael will tell the story of their collection, a record of friendships and a witness to some of the momentous changes in Chinese art over the past sixty years. Professor Sullivan is a world authority on 20th-century Chinese painting. His book, Chinese Art in the Twentieth Century (1959), was the first ever on the subject while Art and Artists of 20th Century China (1996) provides the most complete survey.
24 April 2008
Johnson CHANG Tsong-zung, "The White Cube and the Yellow Box"
Traditional Chinese fine art has never been comfortably presented in modern art galleries (the White Cube). Today ink painters and calligraphers feel pressured to adapt their art if they are to be included in contemporary exhibitions. Johnson Chang will talk about a series of experiments (the Yellow Box) that he is conducting on visual display. On the one hand he seeks to accommodate ink painting and calligraphy in the White Cube. On the other hand he wants to show how traditional exhibition practice can be an inspiration for contemporary artists. The Yellow Box refers to a sentence from the I Ching, (The Book of Changes) which states that heaven is black and the earth is yellow. Johnson Chang has been involved in the Chinese art world for over two decades as a writer, curator and gallerist. He has curated many international exhibitions of Chinese contemporary art including exhibitions in the Venice and Sao Paulo Biennales. He is currently on the curatorial team of the Guangzhou Triennial 2008.
30 April 2008
Qu Leilei, "Chinese Figure Painting"
In Chinese traditional art, figure painting may be less familiar than flower and landscape painting, but it is still a very important element. Artist Qu Leilei will explore different aspects of figure painting showing examples from both classical and modern works. Born in 1951, Qu Leilei is a prominent figure in the international movement of contemporary Chinese art. He was a leading member of the dissident "Stars" of 1979, taking part in their 1979 and 1980 exhibitions. In 2005 he had a solo exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
[from ACClist, 1/17/08]
9 February 2008
East Asian Buddhist Art
- Yui Suzuki (University of Maryland), "Reconstructing the Icon: Saichô (767-822 CE), the Medicine Buddha, and Tendai Yakushi Worship"
- Cynthia Col (Graduate Theological Union, Harvard University; Brandeis University), "Canons on the Move: The Murals of the Derge Many-Doored Auspicious Wisdom-Gathering Printery"
15 March 2008
Art and Ideology in Late-Qing China
- Wang Cheng-hua (Academica Sinica), "The Modern Transformation of the Qing Imperial Collection, Circa 1905-25: National Humiliation, Heritage Preservation, and Exhibition Culture"
- Cary Y. Liu (Princeton University Art Museum), "Between the Titans: Constructions of Modernity and Tradition at the Dawn of Chinese Architectural History"
19 April 2008
Space and Performance in Japanese Modernism
- Bruce Baird (University of Massachusetts-Amherst), "Blinded by the Darkness: The Power of Image(s) in Edin Velez's Dance of Darkness and in Butô"
- Midori Yoshimoto (New Jersey City University), "From Space to Environment: The Origins and Development of Japanese Kankyô"
- Phillip Bloom (Harvard University), "Yayoi Kusama's Filmic Selves: Identity Construction in Kusama's Self-Obliteration"
26 April 2008
Imagining Asia and Articulating Modernity
- Aida Yuen Wong (Brandeis University), "How to Make Calligraphy into a 'Fine Art'? Nakamura Fusetsu'sReform Through Chinese Historical Styles in the Early Twentieth Century"
- Noriko Murai (Temple University, Japan Campus), "Tourist and Collector: Isabella Stewart Gardner and Asia"
For questions please contact:
Phillip Bloom, Graduate Student Administrator, Chinese Art
Mark Erdmann, Graduate Student Administrator, Japanese Art
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
29 February - 1 March 2008
[from HEAS, 2/29/08; panels/papers relating to visual culture listed below]
Religion & Representation
- Youn-mi Kim (Harvard University), "Eternalizing and Materializing a Ritual inside a Cosmological Pagoda: Chaoyang North Pagoda"
- Yu Ping Luk (University of Oxford), "Beyond the Textual Archive: Visual and Material Record of the Daoist Ordination of a Ming Dynasty
Empress"
- Chun-Yi Tsai (Columbia University), "Blurring the Lines between the Sacred and the Secular: Zhao Bosu‘s Golden Palaces and Ten Thousand Pines"
- Fan Zhang (Brown University), "Drama Entertains the Spirit: Representations of Theater in Jin Dynasty Tombs in Pingyang, Shanxi"
Discussant: Cheng-hua Wang (Harvard University)
Violence, Memory & Imagination
- Denise Ho (Harvard University), "The Making of a Revolutionary Monument: The First Party Congress Site in Shanghai"
- Eliza Ho (Ohio State University), "Picturing the War and More: The Jin-Cha-Ji Pictorial and its Founder Sha Fei (1912-1950)"
- Yan Li (Northeastern University), "War Films in the Cultural Thaw: Soviet and Chinese Cinemas between 1953 and 1964"
- Zhe Li (University of Sydney), "Violence in Contemporary Chinese Art"
- Ran Zwigenberg (Graduate Center, City University of New York), " Mute Memories, Mnemonic Sites of Hiroshima: 1945-1970"
Discussant: Eugene Yuejin Wang (Harvard University)
Inner Asia
- Alan Yeung (Harvard University), "Portal to the West: A Portable Buddhist Shrine from Eighth-Century China"
Discussant: Mark C. Elliott (Harvard University)
Reinterpreting Chinese "Tradition"
- Yang Wang (Ohio State University), "Constructing the Nation through Tradition: Chang’an huapai and the Revival of Regional Guohua Schools in the People's Republic of China"
Discussant: William C. Kirby ( Harvard University)
California State University Stanislaus
Turlock, CA
13-15 March 2008
[from CAUS, 3/13/08; papers/panels relating to Chinese visual culture listed below]
1(A): Asian and Western Convergences Around Identity, Culture, and Gender
- Shuo Wang (California State University Stanislaus), "Der Ling: Manchu Princess, Cultural Advisor, and Author"
3(A): China as an Open Empire: Ideology, Network, and Knowledge about the Outside World
- Alan Sweeten (California State University Stanislaus), "Constructing Empire and Nation: The Symbolic Importance of Tibetan-Buddhist Temples and Roman-Catholic Churches in the Qing and Modern Eras"
Hiromi Nakamura (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography)
Hammer Museum
Los Angeles, CA
14 March 2008
[from UCLA, 3/15/08]
A talk by Hiromi Nakamura to launch the planned UCLA exhibitions of Mikiko Hara and Mika Ninagawa, followed by a panel discussion with Laura Miller (Loyola University), Sharon Kinsella (Artist & Writer), LA curator (TBC), and Yoshitaka Mouri (GEIDAI, Tokyo).
Victoria & Albert Museum
London, UK
15 March - 13 July 2008
[from V&A, 3/15/08]
14 March 2008
Curator Talk: China Design Now
Lauren Parker, co-curator of the exhibition, explores the interplay of global, local, historical and contemporary influences on Chinese contemporary creativity. Through the use of works by pioneering generations of designers and architects, she will explore how they tell the layered stories of China's contemporary culture though fashion, film, and photography as well as architecture, product, furniture and graphic design.
4 April 2008
"The New Beijing Airport"
Architect Norman Foster has designed some of our most iconic buildings and his most recent work--Beijing Airport--is the largest and most advanced airport building in the world. He talks to Rowan Moore about this ground-breaking project.
9 May 2008
"China and the Creative Industries"
Political commentator Will Hutton, author of The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st Century, discusses China and the future of the creative industries with Philip Dodd, Chair of Made in China.
[from V&A, 3/15/08]
7-8 June 2008
"Creative China: Contemporary Visual Culture, Architecture and Design"
A two-day international conference, organised in association with King's College London, exploring current developments in Chinese visual culture, design and urbanism in relation to rapid economic development and social change. The conference will feature a range of presentations by leading academics and professional experts from China, Europe and the UK. Looking at fine art, photography and film as well as graphic design, fashion, product design, architecture and urban planning, a series of panel discussions will further explore themes highlighted in the China Design Now exhibition, including changing cultural identities and emerging new practices in art and design.
Speakers*
Bao Mingxin (Donghua University, Shanghai)
Stefan Landsberger (University of Leiden)
Ou Ning (Designer, Filmmaker and Curator)
Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Gallery)
Zhang Hongxing (V&A)
Neville Mars (Dynamic City Foundation, Beijing)
Xiaolu Guo (Writer and filmmaker)
Sir Michael Bichard (Design Council)
Freeman Lau (Hong Kong Design Centre)
Gao Shiming (Centre of Visual Culture Research, China Academy of Art)
Charles Knevitt (RIBA Trust)
Jiang Jun (Urban China Magazine, Shanghai)
Chris Berry (Goldsmiths College)
Yao Yingjia (Lenovo Innovation Design Centre)
Miriam Rayman (Future Laboratory)
Wu Zhiqiang (Tongji University, Shanghai)
John Heskett (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
*Programme subject to change
Supported by Creative Connexions, with additional support from the British Academy
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
22-23 March 2008
[from ACES, 3/22/08; panels relating to Chinese and Japanese visual culture listed below]
The Fifteenth Annual Central Eurasian Studies Conference will be held on March 22 and March 23, 2008 at Indiana University, Bloomington. The conference is organized and run by the Association of Central Eurasian Students (ACES), the graduate student association for the Department of Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University.
Panel 4.2: Tibetan Texts
- Katie Ottaway (Indiana University, Bloomington), "Tibetan Pilgrimage Guides and Understanding Sacred Places"
- Federica Venturi (Indiana University, Bloomington), "Tibetan Religious Geographies: Commemoration, Glorification and Non-Sectarianism"
Panel 5.4: Religion in Central Asia
- Huaiyu Chen (University of the West), "The Encounter of Nestorianism with Esoteric Buddhism along the Silk Road"
San Diego Museum of Art
San Diego, CA
5 April 2008
[courtesy of H. Tiffany Lee, 4/3/08; panels relating to Chinese and Japanese visual culture listed below]
Pan-Asian Ideology and Artistic Practice
Chair: Sonya Quintanilla (San Diego Museum of Art)
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Shigemi Inaga (International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto), "The Interaction of Bengali and Japanese Artistic Milieus in the Early Years of the Twentieth Century: Okakura Kakuzo and Nandalal Bose"
- Aida Yuen Wong (Brandeis University), "The Art of Living: Environmental Aspirations and the Landscapes of Nandalal Bose"
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Bert Winther-Tamaki (University of California, Irvine), "Nandalal Bose in the Transnational Flow of Asian Ink"
Summation by Sonya Quintanilla
Contacts:
Symposium Coordinator Ed Rothfarb at (310) 951-3366 or (310) 450-1781
SDMA Programs Manager Paige Satter at (619) 696-1969
SDMA Curator of Asian Art Sonya Quintanilla at (619) 696-1911.
Rosina Buckland (British Museum)
Kyoto Asian Studies Group April Meeting
8 April 2008
[from H-ASIA, 4/3/08]
The Kyoto Asian Studies Group April meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 8, 2008 from 6 to 8 p.m. in Room 217 at Kyodai Kaikan. Our speaker will be Rosina Buckland (The British Museum; co-author of A Japanese Menagerie: Animal Pictures by Kawanabe Kyosai). She will speak on the eccentric late Edo to early Meiji painter Kawanabe Kyosai.
The talk coincides with the commemorative exhibition Bridge to Modernity: Kyosai's Adventures in Painting at the Kyoto National Museum (April 8 - May 11, 2008). This major retrospective intends to reintroduce Kyosai in the way that the Ito Jakuchu and Soga Shohaku exhibitions reinstated the popularity of these somewhat forgotten artists.
For more details on the Kyosai exhibition, please visit http://www.kyohaku.go.jp. The Kyoto Manga Museum will also be holding a special Kyosai exhibition during the same period.
Sponsored by the Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies For information on access: http://www.kyodaikaikan.jp/access.html.
Mami Kataoka (The Hayward, Southbank Centre; Mori Art Museum)
Japan Foundation
London, UK
10 April 2008
[courtesy of Japan Foundation, 3/19/08]
In celebration of the touring exhibition Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan, this talk event will explore the current and upcoming trends of Japanese contemporary art and artists.
The political and economical shift in the 1990s had a huge influence upon the world of art in Japan and more and more artists, in particular of the younger generation who followed Takashi Murakami, turned away from larger issues and started out by re-examining the ground under their feet. They concentrate on the everyday environment and personal life, and show great interest in the process of making art, that may seem to have root in Japan's hand made heritage, resulting in works with a rich visual impact.
But is this going to be a lasting phenomenon and a way forward for Japanese contemporary art?
A Symposium on the History of Art
Presented by The Frick Collection and the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University
New York, NY
11-12 April 2008
[from IFA, 4/10/08; papers relating to Chinese and Japanese visual culture listed below]
- Kenneth Hartvigsen (Boston University), "Invoking Charlie Chan: Basquiat’s 'Hornplayers' as an Imprint of Racial Tensions"
- Yasufumi Nakamori (Cornell University), "Reinventing Tradition in Japanese Architecture: 'Katsura' (1960), a Photographic Collaboration by Ishimoto Yasuhiro and Tange Kenzo"
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, NY
12 April 2008
[from Brooklyn Museum, 2/17/08]
This day-long symposium offers fresh perspectives on the work of Takashi Murakami through the voices of local graduate and undergraduate students with a keynote address by Roland Kelts, author of Japanamerica; a screening of an animé sensation; and interactive tours of ©MURAKAMI (5 April - 13 July 2008) led by members of the Student Guide program. For more information, e-mail eleanor.whitney@brooklynmuseum.org.
3 April - May 18, 2008
University of California, Davis
Katharine Burnett and Yang Peiming, Guest Curators
[from ACClist, 2/13/08]
The exhibition will feature propaganda art from 1949-1989 from the collection of the Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Center of Mr. Yang Peiming. The bulk of the objects will be poster art, but also included will be some big character posters (dazibao), original paintings, paper cuts, woodblock prints, and political documents relating to the posters.
The exhibition represents an opportunity to study these important political and aesthetically fascinating objects, and to help us understand an important and formative period in China’s history. The exhibition will be accompanied by a scholarly symposium which will bring top scholars of this material in the US to UC Davis.
Symposium, Saturday 12 April
Nelson Gallery
Art Building, UC Davis
Speakers include:
Judy Andrews (Ohio State University)
Chen Xiaomei (UC Davis)
Ellen Johnston Laing (University of Michigan)
Shen Kuiyi (UC San Diego)
Sheldon Lu (UC Davis)
Lindsay Riordan (UC Davis)
Yang Peiming (owner and proprietor, Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Centre)
Discussants:
Don Price (UC Davis)
Blake Stimson (UC Davis)
Richard Vinograd (Stanford University)
The Symposium is being sponsored by the UC Davis Art History Program, UCD Humanities Institute, the UCD East Asian Studies Program, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Department of History.
University of Chicago
12 April 2008
[from ACClist, 3/13/08]
SATURDAY, 12 APRIL
9:00
Wu Hung (University of Chicago), Welcoming remarks9:30-12:00
Panel 1: Locating Art in Spatial and Cultural Arenas
Chair: Katherine R. Tsiang (University of Chicago)
- Esther Jacobson-Tepfer (University of Oregon), "Archaeology and Landscape in the Mongolian Altai Mountains: Form and Spatial Order"
- Robert Linrothe (Skidmore College), "Polishing the Past: The Style of a Seventeenth Century Tibetan Mural"
- Robin Stern (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), "An Analysis of the Garden at Ryoanji: Art History in Fiction"1:00-5:30
Panel 2: Perspectives on Visual Evidence
Chair: Jerome Silbergeld (Princeton University)
- Robert Poor (University of Minnesota), "Seeing and Knowing: Prehistoric Ceramics in East Asia"
- Katherine Tsiang, "Re-framing the Evidence around an Extraordinary Sixth Century Chinese Bodhisattva"
- Sandy Kita (Chatham College), "An Alternative View: Ukiyo-e at the University of Chicago"
- Amy McNair (University of Kansas), "Looking at Chinese Calligraphy"6:00
Reception, Smart Museum of Art
Tribute to Prof. Harrie Vanderstappen
Remarks and Reminiscences by Richard Born and others
SUNDAY, 13 APRIL
9:00-12:30
Panel 3: Meaning in Ornament, Gesture, and Style
Chair: Wu Hung
- Martin Powers (University of Michigan), "Looking at Ornament: A Red Lacquered Casket from Han China"
- Stanley Murashige (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), "Re-performing the Work of Art (Xie He’s Liufa!?): An Homage to Harrie Vanderstappen"
- Ikumi Kaminishi (Tufts University), "Animated Rhythm and Blues of the Ban Dainagon ekotoba"
For additional information, see website at http://caea.uchicago.edu/events_publications/.
RSVP jieshi@uchicago.edu
Organized by the Center for the Art of East Asia, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
Hong Kong Museum of Art
[from HKAM, 4/27/08]
12 April 2008
Jean-Paul Desroches (Musée Guimet), "Paris 1730-1930: A Taste for China" (French, with English interpretation)
26 April 2008
Peter Lam (Art Museum, Chinese University of Hong Kong), "Sunken Treasures : Export Ceramics From Qing Shipwrecks in South China Sea" (Cantonese)
Kyoto National Museum
8 April - 11 May 2008
[from KNM, 4/13/08]
12 April
Kusumi Kawanabe (Kawanabe Kyosai Memorial Museum), "My Great-Grandfather Kawanabe Kyosai"
19 April
Toshinobu YASUMURA (Itabashi Art Museum), "Kyosai and the Late Edo Period"
26 April
Hiroyuki KANO (Doshisha University), "The Fascination of Kyosai Part I"
3 May
Yoshiya YAMASHITA (Kyoto National Museum), "Elements of the Edo Kano Style in Kyosai's Paintings"
10 May
Hiroyuki KANO (Doshisha University), "The Fascination of Kyosai Part II"
University of California, Irvine
13 April 2008
[from UCI, 4/13/08]
9:00-9:30
Coffee9:30-11:00
Panel 1: Spatializing Affect|
- Gary Liu, "Anomalous Action: Tiananmen, Performance and Agency"
- Paul Roquet, "Ambient Video and Information Ecology"
- Chris Tong, "The Subject of Hong Kong in Fruit Chan’s Transnational Trilogy"10:45-12:15
Panel 2: The Modern Spectacle
- Me Hyun Kim, "The Experience of Modernization in Korea: Focusing on School Excursion"
- Ann Marie L. Davis, "Camouflaging Chaos with Pleasure: Images of 'the Prostitute' and Her Quarters in the Yokohama Pleasure Zone"12:15-1:30
Lunch1:30-2:30
Panel 3: Erotic Contradictions
- Chuck Bailey, "Ero Guro Nonsensu: Eroticism, Satirical Violence, Kawaii, and Abject Humor in the Art of Makoto Aida, Takashi Miike, Junko Mizuno and Their Contemporaries"
- Dmitry Mironenko, "The Politics of Modernity and Gender in City Girl Comes to Get Married"2:45-4:00
Faculty-Student Dialogue: with Jonathan M. Hall, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Film & Media Studies, UCI4:00-5:00
Closing Discussion
Each panel is designed to give the workshop participants ample time to consider the questions raised by each of the papers following their presentations. This should not be limited to the content of the papers necessarily as we conceive these presentations as openings to larger discussions about the problems and methods of the field/s. In the same spirit, we have invited a member of the UCI faculty to join us following the panels to participate in a dialogue with the workshop participants about Asian Visual Cultures. Finally, the day will end with a group discussion about the findings and questions raised by the day.
Sponsored by the Multicampus Research Group on Japanese Arts and Globalizations, the International Center for Writing and Translation, the Center for Asian Studies, the Humanities Center, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
Professor Jonathan Hay (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
Columbia University
New York, NY
17 April 2008
[from Columbia, 4/20/08]
Institute for Garden and Landscape History
University of Bristol
Bristol, UK
18-20 April 2008
[from IGLH, 4/20/08]
The support is acknowledged of: Dumbarton Oaks (Garden and Landscape Studies section); BIRTHA (Bristol Institute for Research in the Arts and Humanities), Institute for Garden and Landscape History (University of Bristol and Hestercombe Garden Trust), BICC (British Inter-university China Centre) and the Bristol Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition.SATURDAY, 19 APRIL
9:15
Welcome9:30
Chair: Stephen Bann (Bristol)
- Denis Ribouillault (Courtauld), "Looking and Moving in the Landscape of Renaissance Rome"
- Wang Yi (Dumbarton Oaks/Chinese Academy of Social Science), "The Relationship of Chinese Landscape Art and Wood-block Art from the Late 16th Century to the Early 17th Century"
- Alison Hardie (Leeds), "The Garden Owner as Farming Hermit: The 'Pastoral' Poetry of Ruan Dacheng (1587-1646)"
- Henry Power (Exeter), "'A Table Rase and Pure': The Poetic Landscape of the English Civil War"13:00
Lunch14:30
Chair: Stephen West (Arizona)
- Jiang Bo (Dumbarton Oaks/Chinese Institute of Archaeology), "The 'Made' Nature: A Perspective on Tang Gardens"
- Xin Wu (Dumbarton Oaks/Bristol), "Landscape Tours and Garden Scenes at Yuelu Academy: 12th and 18th Century"15.30
Tea16.00
Discussion
Chair: Craig Clunas (Oxford)SUNDAY, 20 APRIL
9:30
Chair: Timothy Mowl (Bristol)
- Malcolm Andrews (Kent), "Wilderness as Garden: The Picturesque and Domestication of Landscape"
- David Hays (Dumbarton Oaks/Illinois Champaign-Urbana), "Above, Beyond and Between: Spanning the Natural Divide at Cardada"
- Stephen Bann, "'Little Fields Long Horizons': The Poetic Prelude to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Gardens"
- Erik de Jong (Wageningen), "Creation at Teardrop Park: A Recent Design by Michael van Valkenburg Associates, New York City, 2004"13.00
Lunch14.30
Concluding Discussion
Chair: Michel Conan (Dumbarton Oaks)
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, NY
19 April 2008
[from Brooklyn Museum, 2/17/08]
In conjunction with the Museum exhibitions ©MURAKAMI (5 April - 13 July 2008) and Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770-1900 (21 March - 15 June 2008), a discussion series of three panels entitled Envisioning Japan explores common themes informing Japanese art and artists on both sides of the Pacific with a dynamic mix of prominent scholars, gallerists, artists, and cultural theorists. Consuming Art in Japan/America, is the first of the three panels where panelists will discuss the challenges and possibilities created by mass-markets, consumerism, and the rise of "popular culture" in Japan and America since the eighteenth century. The series continues on May 17 and May 31.
Joe Earle (Japan Society)
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
22 April 2008
[courtesy of Tang Center, 4/3/08]
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
23 April 2008
[from MFA, 2/17/08]
Kokei Eri has been called "the most important sculptor of Buddhist imagery of the present day." His wife, Sayoko Eri, designated a Living National Treasure, was a master of Kirikane, the art of fine gold inlay that has decorated Japanese religious statuary since ancient times. Kokei Eri talks about how they worked together and separately until his wife’s untimely death this past fall.
To provide context, Anne Morse and Philip Meredith show examples of the ancient sculpture and paintings from the MFA collection and explore the classical traditions that inspired the contemporary work of Kokei and Sayoko Eri.
Meiqin Wang (Cal State Northridge)
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
23 April 2008
[from UCLA, 4/20/08]
In this talk, Meiqin Wang will address the process of "pulling back Chinese contemporary art," a national state-sponsored initiative to support contemporary art forms under the umbrella of the once rigidly defined rubric of official art in China. Her talk will explore the shifting institutional context and representation of Chinese official art since the late 1990s. In particular, it addresses the artistic presentation and cultural politics of the first national pavilion that the Chinese government established for the renowned international art exhibition the Venice Biennale in 2003.
Meiqin Wang (PhD in Art History, Binghamton University), specializes in modern and contemporary Chinese art, contemporary art of the Asian world, and international exhibitions. For her dissertation, Wang interviewed numerous contemporary Chinese artists and did research in several fields, from museum history to the politics of international art exhibitions, to the impact of rising globalization on art production.
Her current research centers on marketization, globalization, and cultural nationalism and how they are introduced to contemporary media, formats, and issues. She also is investigating Western modes of curating exhibitions.
Cincinnati, OH
23-27 April 2008
[from SAH, 4/17/08; panels/papers relating to Chinese and Japanese visual culture listed below]
PS6. Entwined Perspecties for the Construction of the Colonized: Asia before World War II
Chairs: Izumi Kuroishi (Aoyama Gakuin Women’s Junior College, Tokyo) and Kim Joo-ya (Kimcheon Science College, South Korea)
- William Cole Roskam (Harvard University), " Public Architecture and the Emergence of Civic Indentity(ies) in Shanghai, 1912–1937"
- Jiat-Hwee Chang (University of California, Berkeley/National University of Singapore), "Colonial Space and Socio-political Rationalities: Environment, Medicine, and Heath in Colonial Singapore"
- Junichiro Ishida (Kogei-Seni Daigaku), "Kyoto Colonial Modernity of Urban Space Through Land Readjustment Projects in 1930s Seoul"
- Madhuri Desai (Pennsylvania State University), "'Hindu' Historic Preservation: Religious Mythology and the Riverfront at Banaras"
- Seng Kuan (Harvard University), "Prewar Lessons for Postwar Japan: Uchida Yoshizo and Sakakura Junzo’s Modern Planning in Nor theastern China"
PS12. Everyday Spaces of (Post-)Colonialism
Chair: Bruno De Meulder (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)
- Aravamuthan Srivathsan (Chennai, India), "From an English Market to a Native Bazaar : Architecture of Commerce in Colonial Madras and After"
- Hannah Leroux (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg), "Replaying KwaThema"
- Samuel Y. Liang (University of Manchester, UK), " Hybrid Space, Indigenous Identity: Domesticating the Yangfang in the Foreign Settlements of Shanghai"
- Alexandra Staub (Pennsylvania State University), "Everyday Lives , Everyday Homes: A Case Study of Identity Preservation"
- Mia Fuller (University of California, Berkeley), "Post-colonial Asmara"
PS17. Colonial Frames/Nationalist Histories
Chairs: Madhuri Desai (Pennsylvania State University) and Mrinalini Rajagopalan (New York University)
- Kathleen James-Chakraborty (University College Dublin) and Andrew Tierney (Dublin), " Thoor Ballylee: Icon of an Irish Imaginary"
- Shelley Smith, (City University of New York), "From Colony to Nation: Architecture and Ambivalence in the Carolina Lowcountry"
- Shikha Jain (New Delhi), "The Remaking of Jaipur and Colonial Continuity"
- Leonardo Diaz-Borioli (Princeton University), "The Abstract Nationalism of Luis Barragan"
- Cecilia Chu (University of California, Berkeley), "Resettling the Present Past: The Chinese Shophouse and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Hong Kong"
Respondent: Barry Flood
Stanford University
25-27 April 2008
[from H-ASIA, 3/27/08, and http://www.hanstudies.org/info.html]
The Han, a colossal category of identity that encompasses ninety-two percent of the population of mainland China and ninety-eight percent of Taiwan, is the largest ethnic group on earth. The first-ever Critical Han Studies Conference will analyze the Han from a host of vantage points, featuring presentations by leading scholars, post-doctoral researchers, and graduate students from Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America.
Conference Participants (alphabetical by surname)
Keynote Speakers
Mark C. Elliott (Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Harvard University)
Dru C. Gladney (President, Pacific Basin Institute and Professor of Anthropology, Pomona College)
Xu Jieshun (Founding Director, Han Nationality Research Center, Guangxi University for Nationalities)
Featured Speakers and Discussants (* = Discussant)
Nicole Barnes (Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of California, Irvine)
Sylvie Beaud (Ph.D. candidate, Department of Ethnology, University of Paris 10, Nanterre)
Naran Bilik (Jane and Raphael Bernstein Professor of Asian Studies and Anthropology, Carleton College)
Erica Brindley (Assistant Professor, Religious Studies and History, Pennsylvania State University)
Clayton Brown (Ph.D. candidate, Department of History and Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh)
Melissa Brown (Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University)
Uradyn E. Bulag (Reader in Social Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Cambridge)
Kevin Carrico (Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University)
Chen Huaiyu (Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of the West)
Chen Zhihong (Ph.D. candidate, History Department, University of Oregon)
Tamara Chin (Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago)
Eva S. Chou (Associate Professor, Department of English, City University of New York, Baruch College)
Robert Culp (Associate Professor, History & Asian Studies, Bard College)
Frank Dikötter (Professor of Modern History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; Chair Professor of Humanities, University of Hong Kong)
C. Patterson Giersch (Associate Professor, Department of History, Wellesley College)
*Stephane Gros (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
*Stevan Harrell (Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington)
*John Herman (Associate Professor, Department of History, Virginia Commonwealth University)
Hung Li-wan (Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica)
Jiang Yonglin (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Oklahoma State University)
Tong Lam (Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto)
Françoise Lauwaert (Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Université libre de Bruxelles)
James Leibold (Lecturer in Asian Studies and Politics, La Trobe University)
Lin Hsueh-yi (Ph. D. candidate, Department of History, Princeton University)
*Jonathan Lipma (Professor, Department of History, Mount Holyoke College)
Luo Wenqing (Associate Professor, College of Foreign Studies, Guangxi University for Nationalities; Ph.D. Candidate, Vietnam National University, Hanoi)
Haiyun Ma (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Fort Lewis College)
*Charles F. McKhann (Professor, Department of Anthropology, Whitman College)
Jeff McClain (Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, University of Illinois)
Thomas S. Mullaney (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Stanford University)
*David Schaberg (Associate Professor, Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA)
Leo K. Shin (Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies, University of British Columbia)
Christopher Sullivan (Ph.D. candidate, Graduate Group in Sociology and Demography, University of California, Berkeley)
Sun Jian (Associate Professor, Shizuoka University of Art and Culture)
Donald S. Sutton (Professor, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University)
Nicholas Tapp (Professor, Department of Anthropology, Australian National University)
Emma Teng (Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Christopher Vasantkumar (Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Hamilton College)
Florent Villard (Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese Studies, Institute of Transtextual and Transcultural Studies (IETT), University of Lyon - Jean Moulin)
Wang Ming-ke (Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica)
Wang Peihua (Professor, Department of History, Beijing Normal University)
Scott Writer (Ph.D. candidate, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne)
Xie Linxuan (Research Associate, College of Foreign Studies, Guangxi University for Nationalities)
Gang Zhao (Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Akron)
For further information, please contact Professor Thomas S. Mullaney.
This conference is made possible through the generous support of the American Council of Learned Societies/Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for Scholarly Exchange, Stanford University Center for East Asian Studies, Stanford College Humanities & Science Office of the Dean, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University Department of History, Hewlett Fund.
Princeton University
26-27 April 2008
[from Tang Center, 2/5/08]
Organized by the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art at Princeton University.
Named after a type site discovered at Zhengzhou in 1952, the Erligang civilization arose in the Yellow River valley around the middle of the second millennium B.C.E. Shortly thereafter its distinctive elite material culture spread to a large part of China's central plain, in the south reaching as far as the banks of the Yangzi. Source of most of the cultural achievements familiarly associated with the more famous Anyang site, the Erligang culture is best known for the Zhengzhou remains, a smaller city at Panlongcheng in Hubei, and a large-scale bronze industry of remarkable artistic and technological sophistication. Bronzes are the hallmark of Erligang elite material culture. They are also the archaeologist's main evidence for understanding the transmission of bronze metallurgy to the cultures of southern China.
This conference brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to explore what is known about the Erligang culture and its art, its spectacular bronze industry in particular. Participants will ask how the Erligang artistic and technological tradition was formed and how we should understand its legacy to the later cultures of north and south China. Comparison with other ancient civilizations will afford an important perspective.
Schedule
SATURDAY, 26 April
8:30-9:30
Registration and coffee9:30-12:30
- Jerome Silbergeld (Princeton University), Welcome
- Kyle Steinke (Princeton University), Introduction
The Erligang Civilization
Chair: Kyle Steinke
- Robert Bagley (Princeton University), "Erligang Bronzes and the Discovery of the Erligang Culture"
- Zhang Changping (Hubei Provincial Museum), "Erligang Bronzes: A Perspective from Panlongcheng"
Discussant: Alain Thote, Directeur d'Etudes, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris2:00-5:30
Erligang in Anthropological and Comparative Perspective
Chair: Magnus Fiskesjö (Cornell University)
- Rod Campbell (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University), "Erligang in Regional and Diachronic Context"
Discussant: Li Yung-ti (Academia Sinica)
- Wang Haicheng (University of California, Berkeley), "China's First Empire? Interpreting the Material Record of the Erligang Culture"
Discussant: John Baines (University of Oxford)
SUNDAY, 27 APRIL
9:30-12:30
The Artistic Legacy of the Erligang Bronze Industry
Chair: Jay Xu (Art Institute of Chicago)
- Kyle Steinke, "Erligang and the Southern Bronze Industries"
Discussant: Robin McNeal (Cornell University)
- Maggie Bickford (Brown University), "Bronzes and the History of Chinese Art"
- Jay Xu, Closing Remarks
Registration
There is no registration fee, but advance registration for the symposium is required. Space is limited. Reservations will be accepted in the order in which they are received. Registration will remain open until the event is fully subscribed or 7 April 2008, whichever comes first.
Katharine Burnett (University of California, Davis)
University of California, Davis
29 April 2008
[from UCD, 4/5/08]
Whereas expressions of originality and difference dominate aesthetic discourse in the late Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), interest in these ideals just barely continues into the early Qing (1644-1911). As the new Manchu state sought to legitimize itself in the eyes of its Han Chinese subjects, it established controlling social and cultural policies that seemed to align the state with the traditional values of the intellectual and political Han elite, but in fact favored predictability and sameness for easy governance.
This political stance is reflected in the aesthetic criticism of the time. Early Qing critics find various ways to change the seventeenth-century paradigm. Some transform the positive values of bold difference and newness associated with originalist style art to negative values of confrontational difference and defiance. Others denigrate it, dismiss it, or ignore it altogether, and offer instead a discourse of pabulum disguised as traditional literati values. This paper examines what happened and why.
Co-sponsored by the Art History Program and the Eighteenth Century Research Cluster.
Needham Research Institute
Cambridge, UK
30 April 2008
[from H-ASIA, 4/5/08]
The Needham Research Institute will hold a workshop and roundtable on "China and Materiality" on Wednesday, April 30, 2008. This event addresses the problematic of Chinese material culture seen from the aspects of art history, material culture studies, literature, and socioeconomic history. Each invited speaker will provide a short introduction to the state of the field in which she or he operates, and raise issues and questions critical to the subject of materiality seen from her or his current research project.
The event is free and open to the public and is designed to provide the audience an opportunity to closely interact with the speakers. Due to limited space, advanced registration is preferable. The provisional schedule is as follows (further details will be posted at http://www.nri.org.uk/Seminars.html):
Dorothy Ko (Barnard-Columbia/Needham Institute)
“The Sacrificial Body of Artisans”
Stacey Pierson (School of Oriental and African Studies)
“On the Literature of 'china': Material Identities at Home and Abroad”
Hans van de Ven (University of Cambridge): (TBA)
Vimalin Rujivacharakul (University of Delaware/Needham Institute)
“Thing, Thingness, and Thingless-ness”
Haun Saussy (Yale)
“The Materiality of Poetry”
A reception will follow at 5.30pm.
Contact Address:
Needham Research Institute
8 Sylvester Road
Cambridge CB3 9AF, UK
tel +44 (0)1223 311545
fax +44 (0)1223 62703
e-mail admin@nri.org.uk
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
1-3 May 2008
[from CRASSH, 4/21/08; papers relating to visual culture listed below]
Translating Modernity
- C.J. Wan-Ling Wee (Nanyang Technological University), "We 'Asians'?: Modernity, Visual-Art Exhibitions, and East Asia"
Khen Rinpoche
University of California, Berkeley
3 May 2008
[from UCD, 5/1/08]
Roberta Wue (Towson University)
Asian Arts & Culture Center at Towson University
Towson, MD
4 May 2008
[from Towson, 5/1/08]
The radical changes taking place in China over the last quarter-century are reflected in the exploding contemporary Chinese art scene. This talk will explore how modern Chinese artists explore themes of social and political change, cultural and personal identity in media ranging from painting and photography to installation and performance art.
Yoshikuni Igarashi (Vanderbilt University)
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA
5 May 2008
[from UCLA, 4/27/08]
Of the numerous manga for which the writer Kajiwara Ikki (1936-1987) provided the script, three from the second half of 1960s and the first half of the 1970s—Kyojin no hoshi (Star of the Giants: serialized in Shonen magajin, 1966-1971), Ashita no Joe (Tomorrow's Joe: Shonen magajin, 1968-1973), and Ai to Makoto (Ai and Makoto: Shonen magajin, 1973-1976)—stand as classics of Japanese manga. Endowed with exceptional physical abilities, Kajiwara's young heroes strive to control their own destiny against the prejudice of their humble social origins. Through their extraordinary bodily performance, the protagonists confirm their working class identity, while contesting the bourgeois values of postwar society. Over the decade in which he worked on the three works, Kajiwara's view on class conflict evolved from a relatively uncomplicated binary to a complex nexus of various forces in which his protagonists are tangled. The escalation of violence in his work (and his real life) is perhaps best to be understood as a forceful attempt to resolve the complex political dynamics to which he was awaken. By interjecting the perspective of class and class warfare in Kajiwara's work, I will read the protagonists' violent acts in these works as a form of political discourse, foregrounding the resonance between Kajiwara's artistic world and the politically charged decade of the Showa 40s (1965-1974).
Anne Allison (Duke University)
Japan Society
New York, NY
5 May 2008
[from H-ASIA, 4/29/08]
From sushi and karaoke to martial arts and technoware, the currency of made-in-Japan cultural goods has skyrocketed in the global marketplace during the past decade. The globalization of Japanese "cool" is led by youth products: video games, manga (comic books), anime (animation) and cute characters that have fostered kid crazes from Hong Kong to Canada. Drawing on popular examples from Pokémon to Sailor Moon, Anne Allison speaks about the popularity of Japanese goods today, and the relationship of these products to the cultural and historical context in which they were both developed and consumed. Dr. Allison is Professor and Chair of the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, and author of Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination.
Moderated by Thomas Looser, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at New York University.
Followed by a reception.
Ladan Akbarnia (Brooklyn Museum)
China Institute in America
New York, NY
6 May 2008
[from China Institute, 5/4/08]
This illustrated lecture gives an overview of khita'i—an apparently Chinese or far eastern-inspired aesthetic revealed in the form of motifs such as lotuses, peonies, scrolling cloud bands, fantastical creatures like dragons and simurghs, as an artistic phenomenon generated by the Mongol connections between China and Greater Iran and its development in the Iranian world.
Ladan Akbarnia is Hagop Kevorkian Associate Curator of Islamic Art at the Brooklyn Museum.
Regine Thiriez
Toronto, ON
6 May 2008
[from ROM, 2/16/08]
Explore the fascinating history of Shanghai through its first photographic images. View a range of scenes that document the early years of a legendary world metropolis, its people, and its architecture. Sources will include rarely seen photographs from the ROM’s collections, together with other, scarce, and mostly unpublished material.
Dr. Regine Thiriez, is a photographic historian specializing in 19th century photography in China. She has extensively studied the ROM’s photographs, and lives in Paris.
Frances Wood (British Library)
Royal Asiatic Society
London, UK
8 May 2008
[from RAS, 2/16/08]
Wolfgang Martin
Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst
Köln, Germany
8 May 2008
[from MOK, 4/20/08]
Robert D. Jacobsen (Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
8 May 2008
[from MIA, 5/4/08]
Among all the floral regions of the world, it is hard to match China for the richness and diversity of its natural flowers. In this illustrated lecture, honoring the silver anniversary of Art in Bloom, Robert D. Jacobsen, Chair of Asian Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, will discuss the importance of floral symbolism in Chinese art, especially in women’s dress. The talk will also examine the surprising role Chinese flowers played in international trade along the fabled Silk Road. The gardens of England and North America today are populated with more than a thousand types of flowers that have derived from the wild, from private gardens, and from commercial nurseries of historic China. Presented by the Friends of the Institute.
Stephen Whiteman
Denver Art Museum
9 May 2008
[from DAM, 4/20/08]
Throughout history, gardens, palaces, temples and other constructed environments have been used to convey ideas of might and authority. In this presentation, Mr. Whiteman will explore the ways in which the representation of imperial landscapes such as these contributed to the establishment of legitimacy in the early Qing Empire (1644-1911). Through paintings, woodblock prints and the physical landscapes themselves, he will discuss the functions of these royal environments in the negotiation of Qing imperial power.
A Morning Presentation with the Hong Kong Miniature Art Society
T. T. Tsui Gallery
University Museum & Art Gallery
University of Hong Kong
10 May 2008
[from AsiaEVENTS, 4/20/08]
The Hong Kong Miniature Art Society is united in its interest in preserving Hong Kong’s culture and history. Saddened by the relentless destruction of the city’s heritage buildings and street culture, they see tiny scale models as a good way of saving them for posterity. The Society will show our members an exclusive exhibition of their works titled “Hong Kong Treasures." Each piece is reconstructed with painstaking attention to detail and captures the vanishing scenes in Hong Kong – neighborhood barber shops, dai pai dongs, squatter huts, Chinese wedding costume shops, Woo Cheong pawn shops, and many more. Li Loi-yau, founder of the Hong Kong Miniature Art Society and members from her Society will guide us through the exhibition. Ms Pamela Kember, art historian and lecturer at the Hong Kong Art School, will moderate a discussion on the “building of disappearance,” how cultural heritage is in danger of continual erosion and the challenge to preserve Hong Kong’s unique historical characteristics.
Cedar Ridge Creative Centre
Toronto, ON
CANADA
Opening, symposium and performance: 11 May 2008
Exhibition: 11-16 May 2008
[from AsiaEVENTS, 4/20/08]
A multi-perspective exploration of the art and culture of Chinese calligraphy in the contemporary world
Curated by Henry Ho and Doris Sung
Artists Toronto: Tien Chang, David Cheung, Sharon Cook, William C. Fahn, Henry Ho, John Koo, Houston Lok, Peng Ma, Ted Rettig / China: Chen Wei, Chui Pui-chee, Eric Leung Shiu-kee, Paul Wong, Wang Da-chuan
Calligraphy-ism is the first exhibition of its kind in Canada. The art show and symposium bring together traditional and contemporary works that explore the concepts and elements of Chinese calligraphy. Works in the exhibition consist of traditional calligraphy, conceptual calligraphic art, installation and performance. Showcasing works by artists in Toronto and China, this event is a multi-perspective, intercultural forum that aims to introduce the creative approaches of Chinese calligraphy to the Canadian art world.
In the exhibition, works of traditional calligraphy will be shown alongside those that defy the aesthetic, cultural and social boundaries of the calligraphic artform and practice. While the works by Houston Lok and William Fahn best exemplify the essence of traditional Chinese literary culture, Sharon Cook questions the literary function of calligraphy in her interactive installation. Cook explores the cognitive power of words and non-words through experimenting with the transformative states of ice, water and ink. Through contemplating the work of an 11th Century Buddhist poet and calligrapher, Johnny Koo creates an installation to interpret the meditative quality of calligraphy in the 21st century. Although David Cheung and Paul Wong's writings may seem offensive and nonsensical, the works play with the subversive power of calligraphic practice in public space. Henry Ho's outdoor installation of calligraphic inscriptions on long rolls of paper further questions the sign systems of Chinese writing. The 14 artists bring to this exhibition their unique interpretations of the rich tradition of calligraphy in Chinese culture.
The symposium aims to create an opportunity to inform and engage the artists, scholars and audience in dialogues on the aesthetic and philosophical concepts in Chinese calligraphy. Among the panelists of the symposium will be Professor Jay Goulding (York University), who will talk about the practice of calligraphy in relation to Chinese mind and body theory; independent scholar Dr. Lien Chao will discuss the connection between calligraphy and abstract painting. Also at the opening, Henry Ho and Houston Lok will collaborate on an interactive performance based on the somatic nature of calligraphy.
For more information, please go to http://www.dorissung.com/shufa. Contact: Doris Sung.
Yukio Lippit (Harvard University)
Detroit Institute of Arts
13 May 2008
[from DIA, 5/4/08]
Dr. Lippit will introduce the medieval Japanese monk-painter, Sesshu Toyo (1420-1506), and explore his artistry through a careful analysis of Splashed Ink Landscape (1495), one of his most renowned works. Although Splashed Ink Landscape has been understood in the modern era as a quintessentially Zen painting, its formal features have little, if anything, to do with the tenets of Zen Buddhism. Rather, they are derived from a long tradition of Sino-Japanese monochrome ink painting that exploits the aesthetic effects of accidental (splashy) ink work. The splashed ink landscape became a signature subject of Sesshu and his followers.
Yukio Lippit is Assistant Professor of Japanese Art at Harvard University. He recently co-curated the exhibition Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan (Japan Society Gallery, New York 2007) and co-authored the accompanying catalogue. He is presently completing a book on the Kano school of professional painters in Japan. Lippit has held fellowships at the National Gallery of Art and the Getty Foundation, and has published various articles on Zen portraiture, the Genji Scrolls, and the rhetoric of the drunken painter in Japanese literati painting.
Khen Rinpoche Kachen Lobzang Tsetan
Honolulu Academy of Arts
13 May 2008
[from HAA, 5/4/08]
Japan Society
New York, NY
13 May 2008
[from Japan Society, 5/4/08]
Late-Edo-period design in both textiles and lacquerware is distinguished by a penchant for near-invisible tiny details and minutely worked techniques that situate value in time and skill rather than precious materials. This program discusses the philosophical and practical background to iki--an understated aesthetic that characterizes much of Shibata Zeshin's work--and examines the beauty of hidden design in Japanese and Western culture. Panelists Sharon S. Takeda, Senior Curator and Department Head, Costumes and Textiles at Los Angeles County Museum, and distinguished independent scholar Terry Satsuki Milhaupt join curator Joe Earle in a dialogue on a variety of topics, including the impact of Western design on Japan and, reciprocally, Japan's influence on the West. Followed by a reception.
Asia Society and Museum
New York, NY
14 May 2008
[from AsiaEVENTS, 4/20/08]
This panel discussion explores the 'economic explosion' reflected in the contemporary Chinese art market and the wider Chinese economy. Scholars, artists, and dealers discuss the phenomenon in a lively conversation at the Asia Society. Moderated by Melissa Chiu, Asia Society. Reception and private exhibition viewing follows at the Guggenheim Museum.
Julie Nelson Davis (University of Pennsylvania)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
15 May 2008
[from LACMA, 5/4/08]
Julie Nelson Davis, assistant professor of the history of art at the University of Pennsylvania, reappraises how the ukiyo-e painter's practice changed over the course of the Edo period. Following the lecture Dr. Davis will sign copies of her new book, Utamaro and the Spectacle of Beauty (2008). This lecture was made possible by the East Asian Art Council at LACMA.
University of California, Davis
16-17 May 2008
[from DHI, 4/26/08; papers relating to Chinese visual culture listed below]
Unbinding the Body: Sites & States of Alternative Embodiment
- Micki McCoy (University of California, Davis), "Spontaneous Resistance and the Performance of Memory: He Chengyao’s Live Art"
Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Central & Inner Asia Seminar (CIAS 2008)
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
16-17 May 2008
[from CIES, 4/26/08; papers relating to Chinese and Japanese visual culture listed below]
Provisional Speakers
- David Jongeward (University of Toronto), "Gandharan Buddhist Reliquaries"
- Matthew King (University of Toronto), "Unburying the Buddha: Strategies for Recovering and Recreating a Mongolian Buddhist Tradition"
- Judith Kolbas (Macquarie University), "Mongol Coinage of the Caliph al-Nasir li-Din Allah"
- Kenneth Lymer (Wessex Archaeology), "Visions of Deer: Rock Art and the Archaeology of Religion in Ancient Central Asia"
- Willow G. Mullins (St. Louis, MO), "Philanthropic Tourism: Kyrgyz Crafts and Colonial Logic"
- Manu P. Sobti (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), "Settings of Power & Spectacle: Reflections on the Building and Re-building of Urban Spaces in the Early-medieval Central Asian City"
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, NY
17 May 2008
[from Brooklyn Museum, 5/3/08]
This panel explores how Japanese artists have created a market for their work that is both Japanese and international. The discussion includes Adam Kern, author of Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyoshi of Edo Japan; Miwako Tezuka, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, the Asia Society; Ikumi Kaminishi, Associate Professor of Art History and Coordinator of Asian Studies Program at Tufts University; and artist Aiko Nakagawa. The panel is moderated by Joan Cummins, Curator of Asian Art at the Brooklyn Museum.
Commemorating the International Council of Museums (ICOM)
Takeshi ASANUMA (Kyoto National Museum)
Kyoto National Museum
17 May 2008
[from KNM, 5/4/08]
Kinoshita Naoyuki (University of Tokyo)
Tokyo National Museum
17 May 2008
[from TNM, 4/20/08]
Asia Society and Museum
New York, NY
17-18 May 2008
[from ACClist and AsiaEVENTS, 4/20/08]
A two-day conference to explore the influence that cultural and ideological heritages, along with Eastern and Western cross-cultural activities, have on Chinese ink painting. This conference seeks to discuss systematically the theoretical foundations, origin, history, aesthetic, and cultural values of Chinese ink painting. A second conference will be held in Beijing later this year to develop a cross-cultural appreciation and understanding of Chinese ink painting and world arts further. Exhibition of works by Wu Yi from May 13 to May 18, 2008.
Program
SATURDAY, 17 MAY
9:30
Opening Ceremony, Opening Remarks and Announcements
Chair: Yi Wu (Association of Modern Chinese Art)
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Melissa Chiu (Asia Society Museum)
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Shu Liu (US Multi-Culture Group, Inc.)
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Di’an Fan (National Art Museum of China)
9:50
Keynote Speech (I)
Moderator: Lang Shaojun (China Academy of Arts) and Kuiyi Shen (University of California , San Diego)
- Tianzhong Shui (China Academy of Arts), "New Renaissance of 'Xie-Yi'"
- Yi Wu, "Aesthetics of Traditional Chinese Ink Painting"
- Eugene Wang (Harvard University), "The Primacy of Master Narrative; But What and Which One?"
11:40
Lunch
13:30
Panel I: Cultural Lineage of Chinese Ink Painting
Moderators: Lüsheng Chen (Chinese National Museum of Art) and An-yi Pan (Cornell University)
- Zheng Cheng (Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts), "The Origin of Ink Lines"
- Mu Lin (Sichuan University), " The Cultural Lineage of Ink Painting"
- Richard Vinograd (Stanford University), "The Power of Ink"
14:55
Break
15:30
Panel II: Aesthetics of Chinese Ink Painting and Its Modern Interpretation
Moderators: Tsai-chin Ni (Tunghai University) and Eugene Wang
- Peter Sturman (University of California, Santa Barbara), "Primordiality and Cultural Essence: Modernists and Their Media in the Chinese Diaspora"
- Kuiyi Shen, "The Practice of Contemporary Ink Art and Its Dilemma"
- Hao Sheng (Museum of Fine Art , Boston), "Hao Sheng, Museum of Fine Art , Boston"
SUNDAY, 18 MAY
9:30
Panel III: Studies on the Aesthetics of Chinese Ink Painting
Moderators: Peter Sturman and Mu Lin
- Ch’ing Lo (Ming-dao University), "Five Ways of Looking at a Floating Boat"
- Wei Zhang (Nanjing Institute of Painting), "On the Origin of Chinese Ink Painting"
- Chang-Han (Charles) Liu (North Central College), "Contemporary Perspectives on the Aesthetics of Ink Painting"
- Huizhen Hong (Xiamen University), "Beneficial to Life - Traditional Chinese Painting"
12:00
Lunch
13:30
Panel IV: The Relationship Between Various Traditional Modes of Expression and Pluralistic Contemporary Developments
Moderators: Zheng Cheng and Julia Andrews (Ohio State University)
- Francesca Dal Lago (Leiden University), "Plein-air, Xieshi, Shanshui: Modernizing Nature in Late 19th Century France and Early 20th Century China"
- Ningyu Wang (Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts), "From Color to Monochrome Ink: A Few Thoughts on Issues Regarding the Development of Chinese Traditional Painting"
- An-yi Pan, "From Multiple Sources to One: The Ebb and Flow of Traditional Chinese Aesthetics and Modern / Contemporary Art"
15:20
Break
15:40
Keynote Speech (2)
Moderators: Richard Vinograd and Tianzhong Shui
- Tsai-chin Ni, "Extensions of Time and Space: The Phase Differences of Viewpoints between Chinese and Western Aesthetics"
- Lüsheng Chen, "The Spirit of Contemporary Chinese Ink Painting"
- Huangsheng Wang (Guangdong Art Museum), "Regarding Tradition as 'Document'"
- Shaojun Lang,
"The Dawning and Awareness of Chinese Painting"
Inquiries for the exhibition may be emailed to: exhibition@amca.us. Inquiries for the symposium may be emailed to: symposium2008@amca.us.
Organized by the Association of Modern Chinese Art. Cosponsored by Asia Society, Chinese National Museum of Art, and US Multicultural Group Inc.
The symposium is free of charge. Those interested in attending may:
All available seats are distributed on a "first come, first serve" basis. All seats held by guests who have pre-registered will be released after 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 17.
Quitman Eugene Phillips (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
18 May 2008
[from MIA, 5/4/08]
Paintings in the John C. Weber Collection illustrate the early phases of the Kano school and offer insights into the Japanese painting world of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Dr. Phillips is Director, Religious Studies Program, and Professor of Art History, East Asian Studies, and Religious Studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. This lecture is held in conjunction with the special exhibition, Arts of Japan: The John C. Weber Collection on view in Target Gallery through May 25.
Presented by the Asian Art Curatorial Council and Public Programs Department.
Hans Bjarne Thomsen (University of Zürich)
University of Zürich
19 May 2008
[from University of Zürich, 5/6/08]