New Dimensions of Medium: Chinese Art History Workshop
Harvard University
May 6, 2014. 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
SESSION ONE. Sackler 515
9:40 – 9:50. Eugene Wang (Harvard University). Welcome and Introductory Remarks
9:50 – 10:40. Rudolph Wagner (University of Heidelberg). “The Drum or Bell of Remonstrance: The Formation of a Shared Image of Enlightened Despotism in Eurasia.”
10:40 – 11:30. Xiaofeng Huang (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing). “Skulls in Song and Yuan paintings.”
11:30 – 11:40. Coffee break
11:40 -12:30. Stephen Whiteman (University of Sydney, Australia). “Landscape, Medium, and the Stakes of Style in the Early Qing Court.”
12:30-1:30. Lunch
SESSION TWO. Sackler 318
1:30-2:20. Ma Yachen (National Tsinghua University). “The Manchu Cultural Hegemony: Commemorative Images of War and Martial Prowess of the Qing Empire.”
2:20 – 3:10. Hongxin Zhang (Victoria and Albert Museum, London). “The Art of Commemoration: The Paintings of the Taiping Rebellion (1851-64) for the Ziguangge.”
3:10 – 3:20. Coffee break
SESSION THREE. Sackler 515
3:20 – 4:30. Hui-wen Lu (National Taiwan University). “Ancient Monuments Re-envisioned: Antiquarian Aesthetics and Transmedia Narratives in Nineteenth-Century China.”
4:40 – 5:00. Roundtable discussion
