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Jan 8, 2009 4:30 am (Thursday)
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Location: Cochrane-Woods Art Center5540 S. Greenwood Ave.Chicago, IL 60637 Contact Name: Tara Morin Contact E-mail: tmorin@uchicago.edu Contact Phone: 773-702-0278 Description: Appr...
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Event details: Lecture: Eugene Y. Wang
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Location:
Cochrane-Woods Art Center
5540 S. Greenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
Contact Name:
Tara Morin
Contact E-mail:
tmorin@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone:
773-702-0278
Description:
Appropriating Vesalius’ skeleton images, an unusual Chinese scroll painting caused a stir in Beijing in 1772. Produced and presented by an artist from Yangzhou, a one-time booming southern city that spawned a distinct pictorial culture, the scroll caught the fancy of the Beijing elite circle. Why and how so? Was it the odd European-inspired iconography that made it “click?” Was the painter from the south merely posturing as an “avant garde” artist to seek new patronage in the conservative capital? If so, why didn’t he paint more of the kind while in Beijing? Was he trying to use this skeleton painting to make a special case? These are the questions to be addressed by Professor Wang.
Cochrane-Woods Art Center
5540 S. Greenwood Ave.
Chicago, IL 60637
Contact Name:
Tara Morin
Contact E-mail:
tmorin@uchicago.edu
Contact Phone:
773-702-0278
Description:
Appropriating Vesalius’ skeleton images, an unusual Chinese scroll painting caused a stir in Beijing in 1772. Produced and presented by an artist from Yangzhou, a one-time booming southern city that spawned a distinct pictorial culture, the scroll caught the fancy of the Beijing elite circle. Why and how so? Was it the odd European-inspired iconography that made it “click?” Was the painter from the south merely posturing as an “avant garde” artist to seek new patronage in the conservative capital? If so, why didn’t he paint more of the kind while in Beijing? Was he trying to use this skeleton painting to make a special case? These are the questions to be addressed by Professor Wang.
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