Protocols: What Xu Wei’s Art Tells Us about Literati Painting

Protocols: What Xu Wei’s Art Tells Us about Literati Painting

Date: 24 October 2012 (Wednesday)
Time: 5:45-7:15pm
Venue: Room 4.04, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus

Speaker: Jonathan Hay

Jonathan Hay is Ailsa Mellon Bruce Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where he has taught since 1990. He has published widely on Chinese art from the Tang dynasty to the present, and on the theory and method of art history. He has a particular interest in the ways in which artistic practices relate to other artistic, cultural, and social practices. Hay’s first book, Shitao: Painting and Modernity in Early Qing China (2001), has been translated into Chinese in both traditional and simplified character Chinese editions (2008 and 2010 respectively). A second book, Sensuous Surfaces: The Decorative Object in Early Modern China, appeared in 2010. He is currently revising for publication a third book, Historical Writing on Art: A Cross-Cultural History.