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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210106T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20210106T110000
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SUMMARY:Yoshitomo Nara | Who is that big-headed girl?
DESCRIPTION:This talk is organized by Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).\n\nArt & Conversation: Yoshitomo Nara | Who is that big-headed girl?\n\n\n\n\nDate: 6 January 2021 (Wednesday)\nTime: 10-11am (HK time) \nWebinar Registration: click here \nThis series takes viewers through three different periods in Nara’s career\, including his early art practice\, questions narratives of “Japanese-ness” at the turn of the century\, and the impact of the 2011 Great Tohoku disaster on Nara’s art. Presented by Yeewan Koon\, Chair of the Department of Art History at the University of Hong Kong and author of Yoshitomo Nara\, the first truly authoritative monograph on the artist in more than a decade. \n\n\n\n  \n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/yoshitomo-nara-who-is-that-big-headed-girl/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201214T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201214T110000
DTSTAMP:20260715T101031
CREATED:20201217T063954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201217T063954Z
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SUMMARY:The Laboring of Art
DESCRIPTION:Art History Seminar:\nThe Laboring of Art: The Rise of Socialist Amateur Art Practice and the Arrival of the Contemporary in the People’s Republic of China\nDate: 14 December 2020 (Monday) \nTime: 10:00am\nVenue: Zoom\n \nRegistration required. \nThis talk takes up the question of amateur art practice during the socialist period (late 1940s to late 1970s) in China\, and its attempt to convert the rarified practice of processional\, academy-trained artists into an everyday praxis. Known variously as yeyu meishu chuangzuo\, qunzhong meishu huodong\, gongnongbing meishu\, and nongmin hua\, amateur art practice originated from small art study groups held at industrial and agricultural labor sites\, where rural farmers and industrial workers met to create images depicting their labor and lifestyles. I argue that socialist amateur art practice not only changed the class and labor relations that had previously defined the fine arts\, but also converted the expert and professional cultures of the fine arts into a grassroots practice of the everyday. By creating new publics for art appreciation\, and by centering art production outside the academy\, amateur art practice challenged the dominance of the art academy as a legitimizing site of training\, and evacuated concepts of artistic genius and technical accomplishment. I end the talk by connecting the amateur art activity of the socialist period with the experimental art practices of the Reform period\, asking how the mantle of avant-garde practices was passed from the revolutionary guard to its political and cultural dissidents. \nSpeaker: Angie Baecker  \nAngie Baecker is a lecturer in the Department of Art History at the University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the cultural and material history of Maoist China\, the politics of aesthetic\, and the postsocialist legacy in contemporary China. She received her PhD in 2020 from the University of Michigan\, and holds a master’s degree in modern Chinese literature from Tsinghua University.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/the-laboring-of-art/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20201210T163000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20201210T180000
DTSTAMP:20260715T101031
CREATED:20201202T024127Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201202T061634Z
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SUMMARY:Watermoon Avalokiteshvara Paintings and their Viewers and Producers in East Asia
DESCRIPTION:Research Postgraduate Seminar\nWatermoon Avalokiteshvara Paintings and their Viewers and Producers in East Asia\nDate: 10 December 2020 (Thursday)\nTime: 5:30-6:30pm \nVenue: 7.58\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\n \nOnline attendance via Zoom is possible (click here for the zoom link)\nMeeting ID: 979 3264 4258 (no password required) \nAbstract\nEver since its earliest inception in the metropolitan capitals of Luoyang and Chang’an of Tang China (618-907 CE)\, Watermoon Avalokiteshvara as a subject matter of depiction had spread to different polities of East Asia in the following centuries. Polities such as Wuyue (907-978 CE) and Song (960-1279 CE) in China continued to produce Watermoon Avalokiteshvara images\, making stylistic and iconographic innovations that reflect the different preferences of the day. This image was also spread to Japan and Korea. By the 14th century\, both Kamakura Japan (1192-1333 CE) and the Koryo Kingdom (918-1392 CE) in Korea had become important centres for consuming and producing images of Watermoon Avalokiteshvara. \nIn this presentation\, I first argue how one should view Watermoon Avalokiteshvara paintings in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907-979 CE) and Song periods alongside contemporaneous art historical development. Most relevant to this discussion is landscape painting’s development as genre. I then revisit the Koryo examples and argue for a multi-identities perspective of viewing them both as representative of Koryo national style and within the context of the larger Yuan imperium (1271-1368 CE). This transnational perspective can also garner better understandings of what I termed Sino-Japanese examples found in 14th century Kamakura Japan. This presentation concludes with a close reading of two enigmatic examples of Watermoon Avalokiteshvara in the Nara National Museum and the Rijksmuseum collections in Japan and the Netherlands. I shall argue how these works are results of transnational exchanges. \nSpeaker\nMr. Konstance Chuntung Li is a final year doctoral student at the Department of Art History\, University of Hong Kong. He holds a M.St. in Archaeology from the University of Oxford. His current research has received generous support from the Japan Foundation and is a comprehensive study that examines Watermoon Avalokiteshvara paintings in East Asia from the 9th to the 14th centuries. At present\, Mr. Li is also a member of the National Gallery Singapore’s Language Panel.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/watermoon-avalokiteshvara-paintings-and-their-viewers-and-producers-in-east-asia/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20201125T173000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20201125T183000
DTSTAMP:20260715T101031
CREATED:20201028T071954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201112T025444Z
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SUMMARY:“On the Museum's Ruins” An introduction to Douglas Crimp (1944 – 2019)
DESCRIPTION:Art History Lecture Series:\n“On the Museum’s Ruins”\nAn introduction to Douglas Crimp (1944 – 2019)\nDate: 4\, 11\, 25 November 2020 (Wednesday)\nTime: 5:30-6:30pm \nVenue: CPD-2.16 (Run Run Shaw Tower)\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\n \nRegistration required. Please email maah@hku.hk. \nOn the occasion of this year’s translation to Chinese of Douglas Crimp’s seminal book On The Museum’s Ruins (1993)\, the Department of Art History offers an introductory course the discursive field of Douglas Crimp (1944-2019)\, the art historian\, critic\, curator and AIDS activist\, who generated some of the most enduring\, foundational texts on postmodern art\, queer theory\, and institutional critique. \nGuest Lecturer Professor: Inti Guerrero (Hong Kong) \nInti Guerrero is the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator at Tate Modern (since 2016). He has curated exhibitions and symposia in institutions globally\, and has published in journals including Afterall (Central Saint Martins). In Hong Kong\, he has curated and co-curated exhibitions at Para Site and Asia Art Archive. \n  \nSeminar Readings \nDAY 1: 4 November 2020 (Wednesday)\n[Chinese] Crimp\, Douglas. “On the Museum’s Ruins.” In On the Museum’s Ruins\, trans. Y. Tang\, 33-50. Nanjing: Jiangsu Phoenix Fine Arts Publishing Ltd\, 2020.\n[English] Crimp\, Douglas. “On the Museum’s Ruins.” In On the Museum’s Ruins\, 44-60. Cambridge: MIT Press\, 1993. \nDAY 2: 11 November 2020 (Wednesday)\n[English] Crimp\, Douglas. “Pictures.” October 8 (Spring 1979): 75-88. \nDAY 3: 25 November 2020 (Wednesday)\n[English] Crimp\, Douglas. “The Boys in my Bedroom.” In Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics\, 151-163. Cambridge: MIT Press\, 2002.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/on-the-museums-ruins-an-introduction-to-douglas-crimp-1944-2019/
LOCATION:CPD-2.16\, CPD 2.16 (Run Run Shaw Tower)\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20201117T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20201117T193000
DTSTAMP:20260715T101031
CREATED:20201111T180023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210726T094726Z
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SUMMARY:HKUFAAA: Knowing Botticelli
DESCRIPTION:This talk is organized by HKU Fine Arts and Art History Alumni Association (HKUFAAA).\n\nKnowing Botticelli\n\n\nDate: 17 November 2020 (Tuesday)\nTime: 6:30pm-7:30pm\nVenue: Online (Zoom) \nSpeaker: Dr. Sim Hinman WAN\nMedium: English \nCost: Free\nRegistration: required\, before 17 November noon (register now)\nZoom Meeting ID: 964 4575 6433\n(URL and password will be sent in an email confirmation) \nWelcoming all alumni and friends\, this online talk aims to complement the current exhibition “The Hong Kong Jockey Club Series: Botticelli and His Times– Masterworks from the Uffizi” (open until 24 Feb 2021) at Hong Kong Museum of Art. It will provide a historical context for audience to further understand and appreciate those masterpieces on display. It will also cover some other paintings by this extraordinary Florentine artist and comparisons will be drawn among them. \n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/knowing-botticelli/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Seminar
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ORGANIZER;CN="HKU Fine Arts and Art History Alumni Association":MAILTO:alumni@hkufaaa.hk
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20201028T143000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20201028T153000
DTSTAMP:20260715T101031
CREATED:20201017T055840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201017T060534Z
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SUMMARY:Applying to Graduate School
DESCRIPTION:Art History Workshop:\nApplying to Graduate School\nDate: 28 October 2020\nTime: 2:30-3:30pm (Hong Kong time)\nZoom Meeting ID: 951 89537541 (URL) \nPassword: Refer to department email (for majors and minors\, no prior registration required) \nEach fall\, the department holds a workshop to provide information and advice about applying to graduate schools in art history. This will be useful for all majors and minors who are thinking about art history study beyond the BA. We’ll discuss differences among MA\, MPhil\, and PhD degrees; how to select appropriate programs (in Hong Kong and internationally); costs and financial aid; and the application process. We’ll also provide some advice for preparing a strong application.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/applying-to-graduate-school-2020/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Information
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ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Art History":MAILTO:art.history@hku.hk
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20200909T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20200909T193000
DTSTAMP:20260715T101031
CREATED:20200825T081852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200825T084051Z
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SUMMARY:An Unexpected Masterpiece
DESCRIPTION:Art and its Histories: Scholars in Lecture\nAn Unexpected Masterpiece: Luo Ping’s Ghost Amusement Scroll\nDate:  9 September 2020 (Wednesday)\nTime: 6:30-7:30pm\nRegistration: Click here to join the Free Facebook Live Webinar \nThis lecture introduces one of the most unusual iconic works in Chinese art history. It is a painting that by all counts should not be a “masterpiece.” It is a painting of ghosts (rather than a landscape)\, it is a handscroll of smaller paintings in uneven sizes mounted together (therefore somewhat ad hoc)\, and it was made by an artist seeking patrons after years of being under his charismatic teacher’s shadow. It also collected over 160 admiring colophons. So why did this painting garner such attention? Why is Luo Ping’s Ghost Amusement Scroll important? This lecture given by HKU’s Dr. Yeewan Koon in conversation with Orientations Magazine publisher Yifawn Lee looks at how Chinese paintings are mediators of intimate relationships\, whether between painters and their audiences or between masters and disciples\, and why the strange world of ghosts captured the imagination of an eighteenth-century Chinese art world. \nArt and its Histories: Scholars in Lecture is a series of public lectures organized by the Art History Department\, The University of Hong Kong and presented in collaboration with Asia Society Hong Kong Center\, Friends of Hong Kong Museum of Art\, and the University of Hong Kong Museum Society. The programs aim to deliver current art-historical thinking in an accessible manner presented by specialists in the field. The series is part of the Art History Department’s broader dedication to promoting the importance and relevance of art history in Hong Kong. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker:  \nDr. Yeewan Koon is Chair of the Department of Art History at The University of Hong Kong. Her primary research is on Chinese painting and she is currently completing a study on the “self-knowing” copy in the sixteenth century. Koon’s academic interest also expands into contemporary art in Asia with a recent monograph of Yoshitomo Nara\, and curatorial work at the Gwangju Biennale (2018) and a forthcoming exhibition on Hong Kong art in Helsinki (2021). She is the recipient of numerous awards including from the American Council of Learned Scholar\, and as Fulbright Senior Fellow. \nYifawn Lee is the publisher and editor of Orientations\, a scholarly magazine for collectors and connoisseurs of East and Southeast Asia\, the Himalayas and South Asia founded in 1969. After finishing her studies\, she worked in finance and later joined Orientations in 2008. In 2014\, she founded Asian Art Hong Kong as a platform to provide art-related lectures and events. In 2018\, she helped organize ‘The Blue Road: Mastercrafts from Persia’ at Liang Yi Museum and ‘From Two Arises Three: The Collaborative Works of Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney’ at The University Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Hong Kong. She currently sits on the advisory board of Liang Yi Museum and on the executive committee of the Friends of Hong Kong Museum of Art. \nCo-presented by: \n                  
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/an-unexpected-masterpiece/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20200817T110000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20200817T120000
DTSTAMP:20260715T101031
CREATED:20200805T044832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200824T110139Z
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SUMMARY:Internship Talk 2020-2021
DESCRIPTION:Internship Talk 2020-2021\nThis zoom meeting will give an introduction to FINE 4005 Art History Internship and provide more information about available internship positions in our host institutions—Asia Art Archive\, Asia Society Hong Kong\, Hong Kong Maritime Museum and University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG)—for the academic year 2020-2021. People from some of these institutions will also attend the meeting to have conversations about their internship programmes. \nDate: 17 August 2020 11:00 AM (Hong Kong time) \nRegister in advance for this meeting. After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nSpeakers:\nDr. Vivian Sheng\nInternship Coordinator\, Art History\, HKU \nDr Libby Lai-Pik Chan\nAssistant Director (Curatorial and Collections)\, Hong Kong Maritime Museum \nSamantha Kwok\nLearning & Participation Coordinator\, Asia Art Archive \nRecordings of the event are available here:\n\nvideo recording (until 24 August 2020)\npowerpoint\n\n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/internship-talk-2020-2021/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Information
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20200710T103000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20200710T233000
DTSTAMP:20260715T101031
CREATED:20200701T055014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200824T110212Z
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SUMMARY:International Internship 2021
DESCRIPTION:International Internship SUMMER 2021\, Japan\nIf you are interested in taking part in the Department’s first-ever international internship programme at Hong Kong House\, Echigo-Triennale Japan\, please join me for an introductory session via Zoom on 9 July\, 2020\, 11:00am Hong Kong SAR time. Register now! \nHeld every three-years\, the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale is one of the largest international outdoor art festivals. The Arts Promotion Office (HK LCSD) hosts the Hong Kong house\, a site dedicated to the promotion of Hong Kong artists. The year 2021 marks the beginning of the next cycle of the 8th Triennale\, and for the first time\, we will be collaborating with Arts Promotion Office (HK) to launch a 3-year internship dedicated to HKU students. \nAs part of this internship\, students will be working with local community and artists for short-term creative projects that reflect their experiences of being part of an international arts biennale held in Echigo-Tsumari. As part of this programme\, students who are successful will be given free accommodation and costs towards daily living. Applicants can also apply to the department for travel costs. \nIf you want to hear more about this programme\, what is involved and how to put in an application for this credit-bearing internship\, please make sure you turn up to the Zoom meeting. This is an unusual opportunity and as it will be competitive\, the department will be taking note of all attendees. \nPlease note that this zoom meeting will be recorded. \nIf you have missed the event\, or you would like to remind yourself about the details\, you may watch the zoom recording here via this link (available until 24 August 2020). \n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/international-internship-2021/
CATEGORIES:2020-2021,Information
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20200610T183000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20200610T200000
DTSTAMP:20260715T101031
CREATED:20200529T025929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201013T123559Z
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SUMMARY:Writing Nara Yoshitomo
DESCRIPTION:Writing Nara Yoshitomo: A Conversation with Author Yeewan Koon\nDrink Reception 6:30pm\nDiscussion 7:00pm\nClose 8:00pm \nYeewan Koon\, author of Nara Yoshitomo (Phaidon\, 2020)\, will join us in an evening conversation together with Elaine Kwok and Alexandra Seno to discuss this first-ever monograph on the internationally acclaimed artist\, which has been described by New York Magazine as “a definitive work”. In this talk\, Koon shares her experience of working with Nara\, how she set about to understand his practice\, and how she looks at some of his most iconic works. \n>> Watch the 30 seconds promo \nAdmission\nOffline (join in person\, registration required): Members $100; Non-members $180\, Price includes a free copy of Life is Only One: Yoshitomo Nara 2015 Exhibition Catalogue by ASHK. \nOnline (via Facebook/ Youtube): free admission \nSpeakers\nYeewan Koon is Associate Professor and Chair of the Fine Arts Department at the University of Hong Kong. She has received awards from Fulbright\, American Council of Learned Scholars and as Mary Griggs visiting scholar at Columbia University. Her interest in how art scrutinises social and human values led to her book A Defiant Brush: Su Renshan and the Politics of Painting in 19th century Guangdong (2013). She has also curated exhibitions including It Begins with Metamorphosis: Xu Bing at Asia Society\, Hong Kong Centre (2014)\, and Faultlines as part of the 12th Gwangju Biennale (2018). She is currently completing her work on the conceit of copies in Ming China\, and planning the first group show of Hong Kong art in Finland. \nAs Director\, Chairman’s Office and Auctioneer\, Elaine Kwok is responsible for business development and top client relationships in Asia. Before joining the Chairman’s Office\, Kwok ran Christie’s Education in Asia\, a programme she started in 2010 to inspire collectors and enthusiasts to engage with the art world. In 2018 Kwok sold Wood and Rock by Su Shi for US$60 million\, the most expensive work of art that Christie’s has ever sold in Asia. Kwok became the first Christie’s auctioneer to pass the China auctioneer license exam in 2015. A Hong Kong native\, she holds a BA from Harvard University\, an MA from School of Oriental and African Studies\, University of London\, and an MBA from Stanford University. \nAlexandra Seno is Head of Development at Asia Art Archive. An art critic for RTHK Radio 4\, she has served on the executive committee of the Oriental Ceramics Society of Hong Kong\, the board of Para Site Art Space\, and as adviser to non-profits Spring Workshop in Hong Kong and Calle Wright in Manila. She has written about culture and the economics of culture for publications including the New York Times\, the Wall Street Journal\, Newsweek Magazine\, The Art Newspaper and Architectural Record Magazine. \n\n\n\n>> Watch the recording of the event\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/writing-nara-yoshitomo/
LOCATION:Asia Society Hong Kong Center\, 9 Justice Drive\, Admiralty
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200421T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200421T193000
DTSTAMP:20260715T101031
CREATED:20200415T073604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201217T063831Z
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SUMMARY:Rome and her Legacy
DESCRIPTION:Art and its Histories: Scholars in Lecture\nRome and her Legacy: Classical Art in the 21st Century\nDate:  21 April 2020 (Tuesday)\nTime: 6:30-7:30pm\nRegistration: Click here to register via Zoom (With a limit of 25 guests)\nClick here to join the Free Facebook Live Webinar \nAccording to legend\, on this date\, April 21st\, 753 BCE\, the semi-divine twin brothers\, Romulus and Remus\, founded the settlement that was to become the majestic city of Rome. This event spawned a mighty empire and nurtured a visual culture that left a lasting imprint on the subsequent civilizations and (art) histories of the western hemisphere. What better way to acknowledge such a birthday than to investigate and interrogate its continued legacy? Today\, some 2\,772 years later\, remnants of Roman art and architecture are stillbeing discovered meters below the modern cities of Europe\, Africa and the Near East\, as well as in the deserts and forests of over 40 countries whose modern borders now fall within the territory once controlled from Rome. With a particular focus on wall paintings\, this talk details some of these recent discoveries so as to introduce revitalized assessments of “Classical” art for the new millennium. \nArt and its Histories: Scholars in Lecture is a series of public lectures organized by the Department of Fine Arts\, HKU and presented in collaboration with Asia Society Hong Kong Center\, Friends of Hong Kong Museum of Art\, and The University of Hong Kong Museum Society. The programs aim to deliver current art-historical thinking in an accessible manner presented by specialists in the field. The series is part of the Fine Art Department’s broader dedication to promoting the importance and relevance of art history in Hong Kong. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Susanna McFadden \nSusanna McFaddenis Assistant Professor and MA coordinator in the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Hong Kong. She holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania and specializes in the art\, architecture\, and archaeology of the Roman and late antique Mediterranean\, with a particular emphasis on the medium of wall painting. She has been a fellow in residence at the American Academy in Rome (2009-2010) and the Getty Research Institute (2016) and since 2005 has been a member of the New York University sponsored team excavating the late Roman site of Amheida in Egypt’s Dakhleh Oasis. Recent publications include essays on the wall paintings from Amheida and a multi-disciplinary exploration of the Tetrarchic era wall paintings in Egypt\, The Art of Empire: The Roman Frescoes and Imperial Cult Chamber in Luxor Temple (Yale University Press\, 2015)\, which won the 2017 Archaeological Institute of America’s James R. Weisman Book Award.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/rome-and-her-legacy-classical-art-in-the-21st-century/
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200118T103000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200118T133000
DTSTAMP:20260715T101031
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SUMMARY:Colloquium on Pearl River Delta\, Art\, and Global Exchange in Maritime Trade History
DESCRIPTION:Colloquium on Pearl River Delta\, Art\, and Global Exchange in Maritime Trade History\nDate: 18 January 2019 (Saturday)\nTime: 10:30am-1:30pm\nVenue: Hong Kong Museum of Art \nDr Yeewan Koon will give a paper “The Dilemmas of the Portrait Gift” at this colloquium. This paper looks at the use of portraiture by the Manchu official Qiying (1787-1858) who was sent by the Daoguang Emperor (r.1820-1850) to Guangdong for the negotiations of the Nanjing Treaty after the Opium War (1839-1841). By looking at the different practices involved in the gifting of portraits in Europe and China\, the paper will highlight the problems of communications and exchanges between Britain and China during this period. It will also show how Guangdong’s leading merchants were instrumental in these discussions and how they were active players in Guangdong’s local community and Qing politics. Later\, she will join other speakers Dr. John D. Wong and Prof. Ching May Bo in a panel discussion led by Dr. Roslyn Hammers. \nSupported by the Lo Kwee Seong Foundation\nCo-hosted by Hong Kong Museum of Art and the Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong \n \nRead more about the event.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/colloquium-on-pearl-river-delta/
LOCATION:Hong Kong Museum of Art\, 10 Salisbury Rd\, Tsim Sha Tsui\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200111T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200111T113000
DTSTAMP:20260715T101031
CREATED:20200304T065716Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200622T083454Z
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SUMMARY:Catholic Realism in the Qing Court
DESCRIPTION:Art and its Histories: Scholars in Lecture\nCatholic Realism in the Qing Court: Qianlong’s Jesuit Painters\nDate: 11 January 2020 (Saturday)\nTime: 10:30am (light breakfast reception begins at 10:00am)\nVenue: Asia Society Hong Kong Center\, 9 Justice Drive\, Admiralty\nRegistration: Register via Asia Society Online Ticketing\nOne of the greatest cases of Sino-European cultural interaction before 1911 took place in the Qing court when emperors Kangxi\, Yongzheng\, and Qianlong hosted and patronized a number of Jesuit artists and artisans from Europe. The Jesuits were trying to impress the emperors with supposedly superior scientific knowledge in order to help spread Christianity in China\, while the emperors integrated the missionaries’ foreign painting techniques into court art to extend their own political ends. \nThis talk presents two cases of this remarkable cultural exchange\, analyzing the techniques and effects of realism in illusionistic wall paintings designed by the famous Italian brother Giuseppe Castiglione (Lang Shining\, 1688-1766) and in military portraits by the more obscure French brother Jean-Denis Attiret (Wang Zhicheng\, 1702-68). Both artists worked directly for the Qianlong emperor (r.1736-95)\, faithfully serving his imperial ideology\, and both achieved a degree of intercultural fusion rarely seen anywhere else. \nArt and its Histories: Scholars in Lecture is a series of public lectures organized by the Department of Fine Arts\, HKU and presented in collaboration with Asia Society Hong Kong Center\, Friends of Hong Kong Museum of Art\, and The University of Hong Kong Museum Society. The programs aim to deliver current art-historical thinking in an accessible manner presented by specialists in the field. The series is part of the Fine Art Department’s broader dedication to promoting the importance and relevance of art history in Hong Kong. \nSpeaker: Greg Thomas \nProf. Thomas teaches various aspects of European and American art and architecture from the 18th to 20th centuries\, as well as the first-year survey of western art. A specialist in 19th-century French art\, he has published Art and Ecology in Nineteenth-Century France: The Landscapes of Théodore Rousseau (Princeton\, 2000) and Impressionist Children: Childhood\, Family\, and Modern Identity in French Art (Yale\, 2010). Recent research has focused on artistic interactions between Europe and China in the 18th and 19th centuries\, part of a long-term study of the Chinese palace of Yuanming Yuan. He has published two major articles on Yuanming Yuan and its looting (in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide\, Autumn 2008; and in Art History\, February 2009)\, along with other essays on landscape painting and ecology\, Impressionism\, and French and British engagement with Chinese culture. He is also the assistant editor of the 13-volume Wuming (No Name) Painting Catalogue\, (Hong Kong University Press\, 2010)\, which surveys the Wuming group of painters active in Beijing in the 1970s.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/catholic-realism-in-the-qing-court-qianlongs-jesuit-painters/
LOCATION:Asia Society Hong Kong Center\, 9 Justice Drive\, Admiralty
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20191204T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20191204T193000
DTSTAMP:20260715T101031
CREATED:20191201T062606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200622T082023Z
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SUMMARY:Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum
DESCRIPTION:Rembrandt at the Rijksmuseum\nDate: 4 December 2019 (Wednesday)\nTime: 6:30pm (reception begins at 6:00pm)\nVenue: Laundry Steps\, Taikwun\nTo RSVP\, contact f.ho@taschen.com\nThe Department of Fine Arts and Taschen Books present a wonderful evening on Rembrandt with Duncan Bull\, curator from Rijksmuseum. Taschen Books is also kindly hosting a special Dutch snacks and cocktails reception before the conversation starting at 6pm. So come\, enjoy a cocktail\, peruse some art books\, learn about Rembrandt! Our teachers including Dr. Hammers and Dr. Lastra will also be there joining in the festivities at Taikwun. \n 
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/rembrandt-at-the-rijksmuseum/
LOCATION:Taikwun Laundry Steps\, Laundry Steps\, Taikwun\, 10 Hollywood Road\, Central\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20191115T110000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20191115T120000
DTSTAMP:20260715T101031
CREATED:20191106T081109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200624T031644Z
UID:185-1573815600-1573819200@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Christie's Graduate Training Program 2020 Intake
DESCRIPTION:Christie’s Graduate Training Program 2020 Intake\nDate: 15 November 2019   RESCHEDULED\nTime: 11:00am\nVenue: Room 4.36\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus \nChristie’s is offering an exciting 18-month Graduate Training program for graduates to gain experiences in the auction house business. This is a highly competitive early career scheme that offers training through a series of placements\, rotations and workshops with art-specialists and related areas of support within Christie’s. Come join our Recruitment Talk to find out more!
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/christies-graduate-training-program-2020-intake/
LOCATION:Faculty Room 436\, Room 4.36\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Information
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20191113T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20191113T183000
DTSTAMP:20260715T101031
CREATED:20191106T081411Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200623T035708Z
UID:187-1573664400-1573669800@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Career Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Career Workshop\nDate: 13 November 2019  CANCELLED\nTime: 5:00-7:00pm\nVenue: Room 4.30\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus \nQuota: 15 (Registration required\, first come first served)\nRegistration: Register by sending email to Nicole Fung (fungnkn@hku.hk). State your name and year group. \nInstructor: Ms. Irene Tsang \nIrene Tsang has over twenty five years of experience in the luxury retail and service industries including CHANEL\, Clinique\, Tiffany & Co. and Cathay Pacific Airways. Her experience covered sales\, operations\, marketing and learning and development. Before establishing her own coaching and training practice\, Irene was Head of Education & Development for Asia Pacific at Tiffany & Co.. While training and professional development were her major responsibilities\, she has substantial experience in helping leaders and staff develop professional presence and effective presentations.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/career-workshop/
LOCATION:Faculty Lounge\, Room 4.30\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191031T170000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191031T183000
DTSTAMP:20260715T101031
CREATED:20200312T043711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200528T064410Z
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SUMMARY:A Tale of Two Books
DESCRIPTION:A Tale of Two Books: Negotiating Art and Commerce in William Alexander’s Visions of Late 18th-Century China\nDate: 31 October 2019 (Thursday)\nTime: 5:00pm\nVenue: Room 7.58\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus \nThe period 1790-1830 was a golden age for Egnlish illustrated books\, during which a great variety of colour printed images were reproduced and circulated to an emerging middle-class readership. Costume books\, a pictorial genre from early-modern Europe that depicts the dress and manners of people\, were revived at this time to collect and categorize new information of foreign countries found in the process of Britain’s global expansion. Meanwhile\, the country experienced an efflorescence of visual arts\, fueled by the rise of watercolor landscape\, the emergence of a polite society\, and the dynamic interchange between painting and print. \nThis talk focuses on two picture books by Willian Alexander\, The Costume of China (1805) and Picturesque Representation of the Dress and Manners of the Chinese (1814)\, which grew out of the traditions of travel book\, ethnographic art\, and street cries in the context of Britain’s first diplomatic mission to China. As official draughtsman to the Macartney Embassy (1792-1794)\, Alexander recorded the social and cultural life under Emperor Qianlong’s reign in pen-and-ink drawings\, which he transformed into picturesque printed vignettes of Chinese landscape\, architecture\, technology and people. By examining these two publications within a larger culture of book reading and collecting in Britain\, this talk argues that Alexander negotiated artistic individuality\, commercial pressure\, and publishers’ agendas in the making of his books to engage an urban elite audience with growing scientific knowledge of China before the First Opium War. \nSpeaker: Zhu Wenqi \nMs. Zhu received her BA from the Department of Fine Arts\, the University of Hong Kong\, and is currently an MPhil candidate there. Her interests include the representation of East Asia in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century illustrated books\, newspapers\, periodicals\, and other forms of printed images in Europe and America\, as well as cross-cultural art exchange in general. Her research is partially funded by the Andrew Wyld Research Support Grants administrated through the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/a-tale-of-two-books-negotiating-art-and-commerce-in-william-alexanders-visions-of-late-18th-century-china/
LOCATION:Faculty Room 758\, Room 7.58\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20191030T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20191030T180000
DTSTAMP:20260715T101031
CREATED:20191024T042607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200622T080554Z
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SUMMARY:Conversation on Technology\, Art and Narrative
DESCRIPTION:Conversation on Technology\, Art and Narrative: In Conversation with New Media Artist Cao Shu\nDate: 30 October 2019 (Wednesday)\nTime: 5:00-6:30pm\nVenue: CC Lounge\, MB150\, Main Building\, HKU \nSpeaker: Cao Shu \nCao Shu mainly works in new media art in Hangzhou. His artworks focus predominantly in the mediums of animation and installation. More recently. Cao Shu works on the relationship between digital existence and memory\, multi-view narrative in space\, and viewing in CG rendering technology. In 2017\, Cao Shu attended the Atelier Mondial artist residency program supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia. In 2019\, he has attended Koganecho Japan Art Festival Residency. His works have won such awards as the New Narrative Award from A Long Week of Short Films\, and the Beijing International Short Film Festival Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement. Recent exhibitions include “Koganecho Bazaar 2019” (Yokohama\, Japan\, 2019)\, “The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2018” (Beijing Minsheng Art Museum\, Beijing\, China\, 2019)\, “Fiction Art” (OCT Contemporary Art Terminal\, Shenzhen\, China\, 2018)\, “Pity Party” (SLEEPCENTER\, New York\, USA\, 2018)\, “Presence – Young Artist Exhibition” (China Academy of Art Museum\, Hangzhou\, China\, 2018)\, DOK Leipzig (Leipzig\, Germany\, 2018)\, Hamburg “China Time” International Art Festival (Die Sammlung Falckenberg Hall\, Hamburg\, Germany\, 2016).
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/conversation-on-technology-art-and-narrative-in-conversation-with-new-media-artist-cao-shu/
LOCATION:Common Core Lounge\, MB150\, Main Building\, Main Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20190928T190000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20190928T220000
DTSTAMP:20260715T101031
CREATED:20190901T101046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200623T043722Z
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SUMMARY:40th Anniversary Reunion Dinner
DESCRIPTION:We Are Global: Celebrating Art at 40\n40th Anniversary Reunion Dinner\nDate: 28 September 2019 (Saturday) \nTime: 7:00pm \nVenue: Loke Yew Hall\, HKU \nRegistration: required\, online (click here) \nJoin us this September for a reunion dinner in celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Department of Fine Arts. This is a great opportunity to get acquainted with new developments in the department and reconnect with faculty\, friends\, and alumni from the classes of 1978 to 2019. \nVisit its official website for more details!
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/40th-anniversary-reunion-dinner/
LOCATION:Loke Yew Hall\, Loke Yew Hall\, Main Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Social
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190926T043000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190926T180000
DTSTAMP:20260715T101031
CREATED:20190906T090429Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200623T035434Z
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SUMMARY:Graduate Study in Art History
DESCRIPTION:Graduate Study in Art History\nDate: 26 September 2019 (Thursday)\nTime: 4:30–6:00pm\nVenue: Room 7.58\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus \nAre you considering postgraduate study in art history or a related field? Many art-related careers require postgraduate qualifications. The Fine Arts department is holding an information session to help you choose the best programs for you and to improve your chances of acceptance.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/graduate-study-in-art-history/
LOCATION:Faculty Room 758\, Room 7.58\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Information
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190829T160000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190829T173000
DTSTAMP:20260715T101032
CREATED:20190820T082108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200622T011753Z
UID:190-1567094400-1567099800@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:The Botanical Illustrations of Boym's Flora Sinensis and Overlapping Knowledge Networks in Seventeenth-Century Eurasia
DESCRIPTION:The Botanical Illustrations of Boym’s Flora Sinensis and Overlapping Knowledge Networks in Seventeenth-Century Eurasia\nDate: 29 August 2019 (Thursday)\nTime: 4:00pm\nVenue: Room 7.58\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus \nMichael Boym’s Flora Sinensis [Flora of China]\, published in Vienna in 1656\, contains twenty-two hand-coloured woodcuts depicting Southeast Asian flora and fauna. While his work is entitled Flora Sinensis\, few of the plants depicted are of Chinese origin. Rather\, they were cultivated and traded in Southeast Asia\, and transplanted in China. My thesis is hat Boym’s selection of plants shows that China’s ecosystem exceeds the geographical boundaries of the empire itself by means of trade\, knowledge transfer and cultural engagement. Using examples drawn from Boym\, we can see how different\, overlapping networks functioned; we also see these networks were not only European\, but also intra-Asian\, and Eurasian. Through an interdisciplinary study of Boym’s work\, it becomes apparent how these emergent network configurations shaped the Chinese knowledge\, practices and materials that arrived in early-modern Europe. \nSpeaker: Eszter Csillag \nEszter Csillag is a 3rd year PhD candidate in the Fine Arts Department of the School of Humanities at The University of Hong Kong. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on seventeenth-century Polish Jesuit Michael Boym’s contributions to knowledge transfer from China to Europe\, based on his illustrations\, which range from the botanical to the medical\, from the geographical to the zoological. She took her BA at the Sapienza University of Rome and her MA at Roma Tre University\, where she specialized in seventeenth-century Italian baroque art.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/the-botanical-illustrations-of-boyms-flora-sinensis-and-overlapping-knowledge-networks-in-seventeenth-century-eurasia/
LOCATION:Faculty Room 758\, Room 7.58\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20190605T123000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20190605T133000
DTSTAMP:20260715T101032
CREATED:20190601T033951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200623T043733Z
UID:140-1559737800-1559741400@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Models of Integrity: Art and Law in Post-Sixties America
DESCRIPTION:Book Talk: Models of Integrity: Art and Law in Post-Sixties America\nDate: 5 June 2019 (Wednesday)\nTime: 12:30pm\nVenue: A723\, 7/F\, Cheng Yu Tung Tower\, Centennial Campus \nRegistration: online (go to Seminars & Conferences) \nModels of Integrity examines the relationship between contemporary art and the law through the lens of integrity. In the 1960s\, artists began to engage conspicuously with legal ideas\, rituals\, and documents. The law—a primary institution subject to intense moral and political scrutiny—was a widely recognized source of authority to audiences inside the art world and out. Artists frequently engaged with the law in ways that signaled a recuperation of the integrity that they believed had been compromised by the very institutions entrusted with establishing standards of just conduct. These artists sought to convey the social purpose of an artwork without overstating its political impact and with-out losing sight of how aesthetic decisions compel audiences to see their everyday world differently. Addressing the role that law plays in enabling art-works to function as social and political forces\, this important book fills a gap in the field of law and the humanities\, and will serve as a practical “how-to” for contemporary artists. \nSpeaker: Joan Kee \nJoan Kee is a lawyer and art historian. She joined the University of Michigan’s History of Art department in 2008\, after visiting positions at Cornell University\, the National University of Singapore\, and the University of Hong Kong as well as a previous career in legal prac-tice. Her writing has appeared in a range of journals\, including Art History\, Art Bulletin\, the Oxford Art Journal\, Archives of Asian Art\, Art Margins\, the Journal of Law\, Culture\, and the Humanities and Artforum\, for which she is a contributing editor. Her current research considers how American artists from the early 1970s to the mid-1990s engaged with legal structures\, doctrines\, ideas\, and agents. A relat-ed project explores how methods of interpretation employed in the discipline of art history might be productively applied to legal cases involving visual analysis. Professor Kee holds a PhD in Fine Art from New York University\, a JD from Harvard Law School\, and a BA from Yale. \nCommentators: Yeewan Koon\, Monica Lee Steinberg and Marco Wan
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/models-of-integrity-art-and-law-in-post-sixties-america/
LOCATION:Faculty of Law\, A723\, 7/F\, Cheng Yu Tung Tower\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Conversation
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190412T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190412T203000
DTSTAMP:20260715T101032
CREATED:20190409T105847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200624T111145Z
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SUMMARY:Fine Arts Society: Career Talk
DESCRIPTION:Fine Arts Society: Career Talk (Session 2)\nDate: 12 April 2019 (Friday)\nTime: 7:00-8:30pm\nVenue: LG. 59\, Centennial Campus \nSpeakers:  \nMs Erin Li (Assistant Curator\, Tai Kwun) \nMr Franco Savadori (Sales Manager\, Parkveiw Art HK) \nMs Joyce Wong (Curator\, Asia Society Hong Kong Center)
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/fine-arts-society-career-talk-session-2/
LOCATION:LG 59\, LG.59\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Information
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20190410T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20190410T193000
DTSTAMP:20260715T101032
CREATED:20190409T104240Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200624T111323Z
UID:5704-1554919200-1554924600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Fine Arts Society: Career Talk
DESCRIPTION:Fine Arts Society: Career Talk (Session 1)\nDate: 10 April 2019 (Wednesday)\nTime: 6:00-7:30pm\nVenue: Room 4.34\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus \nSpeakers:  \nMr. Felix Kwok (Director\, Asia; Head of Sale\, Modern Asian Art\, Sotheby’s) \nMs Jeannie Wu (Director\, HART Collective Limited (HK)) \nMr Cyrus Chan (Manager\, Art Projects Team at K11 Concepts Limited\, K11)
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/fine-arts-society-career-talk-session-1/
LOCATION:Faculty Room 434\, Room 4.34\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Information
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20190403T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20190403T183000
DTSTAMP:20260715T101032
CREATED:20190325T075038Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200622T081507Z
UID:179-1554310800-1554316200@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:Digital Humanities? Exploring Technology’s Roles...
DESCRIPTION:Digital Humanities? Exploring Technology’s Roles in Studying the Past\nDate: 3 April 2019 (Wednesday)\nTime: 5:00-6:00pm\nVenue: Room 4.34\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus \nA recent trend finds humanities programs explicitly promoting engagement with emergent digital technologies. Yet definitions of the term ‘Digital Humanities’ and agreement on the motivations for its use remain very much open to discussion. This talk explores the concept through examples from the study of the human past\, particularly within archaeological research on material culture. A reflection on topics ranging from learning and public outreach to the research data lifecycle aims to promote dialogue on the roles of the digital in the humanities. \nSpeaker: Peter J. Cobb \nPeter J. Cobb is an Assistant Professor in the Faculties of Education and Arts. He is the director of the Ararat Plain Southeast Archaeological Project (APSAP)\, which conducts archaeological survey and excavation in Armenia. He also engages in fieldwork in Turkey and Laos. Peter is a specialist in archaeological ceramics\, investigating the social contexts of pottery production and use. His research focuses on the Bronze and Iron Ages (ca 2000-200 BCE) of the ancient Near Eastern and Classical worlds. He received his PhD in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World from the University of Pennsylvania\, where he also served as a lecturer in the Department of Classical Studies and the Penn Museum’s archaeological sciences division for two years before joining HKU in January 2019. At Penn\, he was a Mellon Fellow in the Price Lab for Digital Humanities.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/digital-humanities-exploring-technologys-roles-in-studying-the-past/
LOCATION:Faculty Room 434\, Room 4.34\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190327T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190327T180000
DTSTAMP:20260715T101032
CREATED:20200225T082602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200622T081535Z
UID:1831-1553704200-1553709600@arthistory.hku.hk
SUMMARY:The Lamentation of Christ and the Melodramatic Imagination
DESCRIPTION:The Lamentation of Christ and the Melodramatic Imagination\nDate: 27 March 2019 (Wednesday)\nTime: 4:30pm\nVenue: Room 4.34\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus \nMelodrama\, as famously defined by Peter Brookes\, was a new secular genre that emerged after the French Revolution to fill the void left by the demise of religion and its moral framework. Melodrama’s originality lay in its creating a highly rhetorical\, emotional presentation which moved the viewer to identify with the ‘good’ and to shun evil. Melodrama assumed the role previously held by religious in imparting clear moral lessons. This paper proposes an alternative account\, seeing Melodrama as evolving out of a religious visual\, literary\, and performative tradition based on Christ’s Passion. \nBetween the twelfth and fifteenth centuries\, Passion plays and representations produced a corpus of highly emotional visual and theatrical works directed at imparting moral religious instruction. While the expressive pathos of early modern Passion representations were curbed during the Counter-Reformation\, their familar movements and gestures were codified into recognizable carriers of agony and suffering during the ensuring Baroque period. At the same time\, their overtly emotional features moved from the religious to the new secular performative traditions (theatre\, oratory\, opera)\, from which 19th century melodrama then emerged. In tracing out a potential pre-history of melodrama\, the paper is intended as a contribution to a revisionist history of melodrama that links it to earlier religious dramatic forms that cultivated and expressed medieval affective piety. \nSpeaker: Isabelle Frank \nIsabelle Frank is currently Director of the Exhibition Gallery at City University of Hong Kong. Prior to this she was dean of Fordham School of Professional and Continuing Studies. An art historian by training\, she received her doctorate from Harvard University and taught for several years at Bard College. She then moved into academic as associate dean for academic affairs at the New School\, New York. She has published The Theory of the Decorative Arts (Yale University Press\, 2000)\, Die Rhetorik des Ornaments (Fink Verlag\, 2001) and articles on Italian Renaissance art and decorative art. As Director of CityU Exhibition Gallery\, Frank has curated exhibitions that combine technology and the arts and which bridge Western and Asian cultures.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/the-lamentation-of-christ-and-the-melodramatic-imagination/
LOCATION:Faculty Room 434\, Room 4.34\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190313T180000
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SUMMARY:Troubling Memorials
DESCRIPTION:Troubling Memorials: Disgraced Monuments and Problematic Public Art in America\nDate: 13 March 2019 (Wednesday)\nTime: 4:30pm\nVenue: Room 4.36\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus \nFrom the toppling of a statue of King George III in New York in 1776 to the recent removal (or relocation) of statues and monuments that pay homage to the Confederacy\, the United States has had a long history of “reckoning” with memorials\, monuments\, and other forms of public art that citizens deem oppressive\, shameful\, hateful\, or simply “out of sync” with current values and ideals.  This lecture traces how\, why\, and when Americans target public art\, and the dilemmas of dissent and historical accountability in public culture. \nSpeaker: Peter J. Cobb \nErika Doss teaches in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Her books include Benton\, Pollock\, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism (1991)\, Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy in American Communities (1995)\, Looking at Life Magazine (editor\, 2001)\, Memorial Mania: Public Feeling in American (2010)\, and American Art of the 20th-21st Centuries (2017). The receipt of several Fulbright awards\, Doss has also held fellowships at the Standford Humanities Centre\, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Centre\, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. \n  \n\n\n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the American Studies Programme\, SMLC\, Society of Fellows in the Humanities and the Department of Fine Arts
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/troubling-memorials-disgraced-monuments-and-problematic-public-art-in-america/
LOCATION:Faculty Room 436\, Room 4.36\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190124T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190124T180000
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SUMMARY:The Legal Medium: An Aesthetics of Uncivil Obedience
DESCRIPTION:The Legal Medium: An Aesthetics of Uncivil Obedience\nDate: 24 January 2019 (Thursday)\nTime: 4:30-6:00pm\nVenue: Room 4.34\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus \nThis talk examines the intersection of art and law (boardly conceived). Scholars and artists have long been interested in socially engaged artworks\, and particularly attentive to those projects involving a violation of rules to motivate reform (civil disobedience); but\, what of the opposite approach? What of radical adherence? Here\, Dr Steinberg considers an aesthetics of uncivil obedience–a looking-glass version of civil disobedience. Uncivil obedience involves following rules in an unanticipated manner\, expressing criticism ironically through law-following rather than law-breaking. By considering how artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have sculpted codified and uncodified law as an expressive material\, Dr. Steinberg establishes a more nuanced field for considering how creative work interacts and interferes with the norms and regulating systems that permeate everyday life. \nSpeaker: Monica Lee Steinberg \nMonica Lee Steinberg is a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at The University of Hong Kong. Steinberg works on the intersection of art\, fictional attribution\, and the law. Her writing has appeared in journals such as American Art\, Archives of American Art\, and Oxford Art Journal\, among others. She has contributed to exhibition catalogues such as The Abstract Impulse and the Venice Biennale’s Love Me\, Love Me Not: Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan and its Neighbours\, and to edited volumes such as the forthcoming Humor\, Globalization\, and Culture-Specificity in Modern and Contemporary Art. Her research has received generous support from The Amon Carter Museum\, The Smithsonian Institution\, The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum\, The Huntington\, The Radcliffe Institute at Harvard\, Brandeis University and several other institutions.
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/the-legal-medium-an-aesthetics-of-uncivil-obedience/
LOCATION:Faculty Room 434\, Room 4.34\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190121T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190121T203000
DTSTAMP:20260715T101032
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SUMMARY:Digital Imaging Projects at the University of Chicago
DESCRIPTION:Digital Imaging Projects at the University of Chicago: Methodologies and Perspectives for Recording\, Curating\, and Display\nDate: 21 January 2019 (Monday)\nTime: 7:00pm\nVenue: Room 4.34\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus \nDigital technology has made possible major innovations in the use of digital images for teaching and research. The talk introduces the imaging technologies that the Center for the Art of East Asia (CAEA) at the University of Chicago has used and invented for interactive viewing of paintings and sculptures from Chinese Buddhist cave sites that make them more fully and widely accessible than in the past. Join us at the coming public lecture by Professor Katherine Tsiang\, Associate Director of Center for the Art of East Asia of The University of Chicago\, to learn more about these. \nSpeaker: Katherine Tsiang (Associate Director of Center for the Art of East Asia\, The University of Chicago)
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/digital-imaging-projects-at-the-university-of-chicago/
LOCATION:Faculty Room 434\, Room 4.34\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Hong Kong
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181121T163000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181121T180000
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SUMMARY:Geographical Science and Chinese Landscapes
DESCRIPTION:Geographical Science and Chinese Landscapes\nDate: 21 November 2018 (Wednesday)\nTime: 4:30pm\nVenue: Room 4.04\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus \nEuropean geographers of the 18th century embraced all aspects of human and physical environments\, including cartographic data\, cultural artifacts\, social and economic information\, and natural history. As part of the period’s global geographical surveying\, the Macartney Embassy traveled through the interior of China where its members observed\, recorded\, and represented the geographical features of the lands\, mountains\, and rivers\, as well as the human inhabitants\, in a great number of visual images. In this seminar\, I first analyze the emerging empirical science in Britain and its associated topographic aesthetics in representing landscapes in 18th-century Britain. Then\, I examine the representation of major sites on the British embassy’s travel route to see how this topographic practices intersected with Picturesque aesthetics. Finally\, I examine the riverscape along the Grand Canal\, especially its relation to hydraulic engineering\, in order to investigate how art and scientific technology were blended in these views. \nIn analyzing these visual images\, I argue that the emerging scientific disciplines of geography\, archaeology\, and engineering played an important role in formulating this scientific representation of Chinese landscape and artifacts. The artists negotiated their concern for the individuality and particularity of topographical landscape with the more uniform norms of the Picturesque aesthetics in order to cater to British taste. From sketches and diagrams to finished paintings and prints\, the artists and surveyors on the embassy collaborated to create an imagery of Chinese landscape that blended scientific and artistic elements. I further address the action of visual mapping as an imperial power that enabled the British to select\, re-order\, and re-create Chinese landscape in their own verbal and artistic languages\, which reflected Britain’s imperial ambitions in its global exploration. \nSpeaker: Shanshan Chen (PhD Candidate\, Department of Fine Arts\, HKU)
URL:https://arthistory.hku.hk/index.php/event/geographical-science-and-chinese-landscapes/
LOCATION:Faculty Room 404\, Room 4.04\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centennial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Seminar
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