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Multi-disciplinary 1/2 day and full day gatherings of leading scholars in the field of China Studies who discuss art, history, religion and philosophy, archaeology, anthropology, and literature. Current research and groundbreaking ideas are presented in a public forum which welcomes exchanges between scholars and the general public. Eminent speakers have included Jonathan Spence (Yale University), Rosemary Scott (Formerly Percival David Foundation), Wu Hung (University of Chicago), Annette Juliano (Rutgers University), Robert Harrist (Columbia University) Maxwell Hearn (The Metropolitan Museum of Art), Michael Puett (Harvard University), and many more. |
YUE Minjun, Garbage Dump, 2005-2006. Collection of the artist. From CI exhibit Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art. |
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China Seen by the Chinese: Documentary Photography, 1951 – 2003
Western photographers have been showing China to Westerners for 150 years, and photography has been a major medium in Western museums since the 1960s. It was not until 2003, however, that the Guangdong Museum of Art exhibited the first permanent collection of works by Chinese documentary photographers ever assembled by a Chinese museum. The Guangdong Museum’s collection was selected by a curatorial committee of photographers who spent two years touring more than 20 provinces, viewing 100,000 photographs, and selecting 600 works by 248 photographers. Presentation will consider historical and cross-cultural perspectives, critical and theoretical approaches to the subject, and the problem of defining “documentary” photography.
Organized by the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University.
*Held at Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Saturday, October 24 ~ 9:30 AM – 5 PM.
FREE but pre-registration is required.
To register online, visit . To register by telephone, call Andrea Scarlett at 609-258-1741.
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by Lothar von Falkenhausen, Professor of Chinese Art History and Archaeology at UCLA, and Director pro tem of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA -
by John S. Major, Senior Lecturer at China Institute and formerly Professor of Chinese History, Dartmouth College -
by Sara H. Allan, Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures, Dartmouth College -
by Robert Murowchick, Director of the International Center for East Asian Archaeology & Cultural History and Research Associate Professor of Archaeology & Anthropology, Boston University.
by Colin Mackenzie, Robert P. Youngman Curator of Asian Art at the Middlebury College Museum of Art and Adjunct Professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture (at time of the symposium and is currently Senior Curator of Early Chinese Art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art).
Mawangdui and its Place in the History of Chinese Funerary Customs
By Lothar von Falkenhausen, Professor of Chinese Art History and Archaeology at UCLA, and Director pro tem of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA
Reading the Mawangdui Funerary Banners
By John S. Major, Senior Lecturer at China Institute and formerly Professor of Chinese History, Dartmouth College.
Written on Bamboo: The Significance of Recent Finds of Chu Script Manuscripts from the Warring States Period
By Sarah H. Allan, Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures, Dartmouth College
Metallurgy From the Earth to the Heavens: The Bronze of Chu
By Robert Murowchick, Director of the International Center for East Asian Archaeology & Cultural History and Research Associate Professor of Archaeology & Anthropology, Boston University
Sinuous Scrolls and Rectilinear Rhomboids: Lacquer and Textile Ornament from the Warring States to the Han Period
By Colin Mackenzie, Senior Curator of Early Chinese Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Book Signing & Special Symposium on the Legacy of C.C. Wang
Through a Chinese Connoisseur’s Eye: Private Notes of C.C. Wang
C.C. Wang’s collection of private notes was written over a 40 year period, on paintings in the Palace Museum in Taipei and other collections he has studied. These detailed annotations open the door to the inner thoughts of a formidable collector, demonstrating his expertise and thought process as a connoisseur of Chinese literati painting. Included are paintings now housed in museums from his own collection, with the provenance and background of the nineteenth and twentieth century Chinese collections.
Kathleen Yang was first introduced to C.C. Wang in 1962 by her mother, when he was asked to make an authoritative evaluation of three paintings belonging to the family. For three years, she consulted Wang weekly to ensure accuracy in the translation of his comments from Chinese to English for the publication of his private notes. Yang, a graduate of Harvard University, studied with C.C. Wang for many decades to understand the traditional connoisseurship of Chinese classical painting, a system that has existed for many centuries in China, where one’s knowledge is transmitted from mentor to mentee.
*New date and time. Book signing will be held in conjunction with the Special Symposium: The Legacy of C.C. Wang.
In celebration of the publication of Through a Chinese Connoisseur’s Eye: Private Notes of C.C. Wang, three distinguished panelists will speak about Wang’s connoisseurship, their experience working with him, and his noted collection of Chinese paintings. Speakers include Jerome Silbergeld, P. Y. & Kinmay W. Tang Professor of Chinese Art History at Princeton University, David Sensabaugh, Curator of Asian Art and Head of the Department of Asian Art at the Yale University Art Gallery, and Arnold Chang, renowned artist and art historian who studied under C.C. Wang.
Followed by a light reception.
Saturday, October 22 ~ 1 – 4:30 PM
$20 member / $25 non-member
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Symposium
One-day symposium in conjunction with the exhibition, Blooming in the Shadows: Unofficial Chinese Art, 1974-1985 (China Institute Gallery, Sept. 15-Dec. 11, 2011)
Blooming in the Shadows:
Art and Culture at the Dawn of the Post-Mao Era
September 17, 2011
9:00-9:30 Light breakfast and Coffee
9:30-9:45 Welcome and Introduction
Agnes Hsu, China Institute Resident Scholar and Director Arts and Culture, UNESCO
9:45-10:45 History, Politics, and Culture
Moderator: Kuiyi Shen, Professor of Art History, UC San Diego
Jerome A. Cohen, Professor of Law, New York University
“Remembrances of Things Past”—Beijing’s Two 1979 Transitions
Julia Andrews, Professor of Art History, Ohio State University
Blooming in the Shadows, Crashing the Gates, and Tearing Up Tradition: Three Approaches to Transforming Art
10:45-11:45 Breaking Boundaries: Art of the 1970s and 1980s
Moderator: Julia Andrews, Professor of Art History, Ohio State University
Ralph Croizier, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Victoria
From Beijing to Guangzhou: Reflections of a ‘Spiritual Pollution’ Carrier, 1973-1989
Lin Xiaoping, Professor of Art History, CUNY Queens College
Great Leap Backward: Ai Weiwei and the Stars Group of Artists
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 Literature and Performance
Moderator: Norman Spencer, Professor of English, SUNY Nassau
Yan Li, poet/artist, Shanghai, Beijing, New York
The Underground Literary Magazine Jintian and the Stars: An Insider’s View
Paul Manfredi, Associate Professor of Chinese, Pacific Lutheran University
1979: A Literary View
2:30-4:30 Art/Artists (Dialogues)
Moderator: Kuiyi Shen, Professor of Art History, UC San Diego
Wang Aihe, Professor of Chinese/Artist, University of Hong Kong, dialogue with Zhang Hongtu, artist, New York
Qiu Deshu, artist, Shanghai, dialogue with Jane DeBevoise, Chair, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong and New York
Click here for a transcript of the conversation between Qiu Deshu and Jane DeBevoise
Saturday, September 17 ~ 9 AM – 4:30 PM
$30 member / $35 non-member
Women, Arts, and Activism: Asian Women in US and Abroad Making Changes through Art
In conjunction with ACAW 2011(Asian Contemporary Art Week), join us for China Institute’s first Art Salon symposium to inaugurate our collaboration with the Asian Women Giving Circle and Ethan Cohen Fine Arts.
This special symposium will focus on arts and activism by contemporary Asian women artists in the US and their native countries.
Panelists are Karin Chien (Chinese American film maker and 2010 Piaget Producers Award winner, Film Independent Spirit Awards), Chang-Jin Lee (Korean-born conceptual artist known for her work Comfort Women Wanted), and Amita Swadhin (South Asian media artist and co-creator of the award-winning theater project Undesirable Elements: Secret Survivors). Joan Lebold Cohen, a noted art historian and photographer who specializes in Chinese art and film, will moderate the panel discussions.
Symposium will follow a light reception.
Wednesday, March 30 ~ 5:30 – 8:30 PM
$30 member / $35 non-member
For more information on Asian Contemporary Art Week 2011, please visit www.acaw.net
