RCCHC "China and the World: Historical Interactions" Talk Series #15 – China and the World: Art Historical Interactions
中國歷史與文化研究中心
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日期
2024年11月7日
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主辦單位
RCCHC
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時間
20:00 - 21:30
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地點
Online via Zoom
講者
Prof. De-nin D. Lee
摘要
From a global point of view, how does art created in regions of present-day China interact with the artistic production in other areas of the world from the Neolithic period to contemporary times? What roles have artists sojourning to or from Chinese areas played? When artworks emerge from cultural encounters, shall the “Chinese” element—whether material, subject, form, patron, maker, or viewer—be prised apart, and how should interpretation proceed? Categories based on nation-states have long structured the field of art history, which has also been dominated by a mentality of “the West and the rest.” Drawing on the experience of co-authoring recently published survey texts, this lecture discusses strategies of placing Chinese art into a global framework of art history and Asian art history.
講者
Prof. De-nin D. Lee
Professor of Art History and Associate Chair for Faculty Development
Department of Visual & Media Arts, Emerson College
De-nin Lee completed a BA in economics at UC-Berkeley before earning MA and Ph.D. degrees in art history at Williams College and Stanford University, respectively. She is author of The Night Banquet: A Chinese Scroll through Time (University of Washington Press, 2010), which took a cultural anthropology approach to examining the cultural biography of a single Chinese painting.Prompted by climate change, Dr. Lee has shifted her research to the intersection of Chinese landscape and environment. Her ecocritical work has been published in Verge, Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, and Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective (Princeton University Art Museum, 2021). She is editor of Eco–Art History in East and Southeast Asia (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019), and she co-authored two new art history surveys: The HIstory of Art: A Global View (Thames & Hudson, 2021) and The History of Asian Art: A Global View (Thames & Hudson, 2023).
