| 17 May 2012 | 2:00pm - 6:00pm | CRASSH | |
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Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chinese Studies 2012 Concluding Symposium
The Humanitas Chair in Chinese Studies has been made possible by the generous support of Sir David Tang.
Professor Wu Hung
Wu Hung's series of three public lectures on Reading Absence in Chinese Art and Material Culture will culminate with a symposium on Writing, Art and Chinese Culture that will bring together international scholars in history of art, anthropology and history. For details of the speakers and abstracts, please follow the link to the programme at the right hand side of the page.
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The lectures are free and open to all, no registration required. The symposium is also free but registration is required. To book your place please click on the link on the right hand side of the page.
About Wu Hung
Wu Hung is Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor in Chinese Art History, Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia, and the Consulting Curator of the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. An elected member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has published widely on both traditional and contemporary Chinese art. His major works in traditional art include The Wu Liang Shrine: The Ideology of Early Chinese Pictorial Art (1989), Monumentality in Early Chinese Art and Architecture (1995), The Double Screen: Medium and Representation in Chinese Painting (1996), Liyi zhongde meishu (Art in its ritual context, 2 vols., 2005), Meishushi shiyi (Ten discourses on art history, 2008), Shikong zhong de meishu (Art in time and space, 2009), and The Art of the Yellow Springs: Understanding Chinese Tombs (2010). In the field of contemporary art, he has curated many influential exhibitions, and has written books and catalogues including Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century (1999), Exhibiting Experimental Art in China (2000), Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Art in China (1990-2000) (2002), Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Politic Space (2005), and Making History: Wu Hung on Contemporary Art (2008).
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