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Slides
In a dark classroom, you hear the sound of the slide machine, and your gaze follows the gently dancing dust along the projector’s beam of light… memories of seeing slide projections in class are still vivid to a lot of art historians trained before the revolutionary use of powerpoints. [...]
The Two Tams at HKMoA
Everyone in the field is looking forward to the reopening of Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA) in November. Examining the museum’s history and its list of Chief Curators, one finds a long-established connection between HKU Fine Arts and the museum. Prof. Chuang Shen supervised a master’s student [...]
Department Trips
Learning about art from books and on screens is fascinating, but seeing works in situ, examining masterpieces in close proximity, feeling their scale and texture, such experience is just incomparable. What is more, when your classmates and teachers are all there together, going on a trip like that is perhaps [...]
The First Syllabus
The enrollment period for 2019-2020 has just begun. Students are now busy with course selection online, checking from time to time to see if they can get into the courses they prefer. BA curriculum structure of the 70s was very different from that of the Millennium. Back in 1978, [...]
1965 Senate Minutes
The University Archives is one cool place! It houses a century of university documents. When you turn the wheels of the rolling stacks, when you open the box cover, when your fingertips touch a document far older than you, you savour every moment of discovery and imagination. One of the earliest [...]
Timber Hut
The Department Office of Fine Arts was temporarily housed in Timber Hut before moving to Fung Ping Shan Building in 1979. Timber Hut 松舍 once stood on a strip of land that connected the Main Building and the Chemistry Building (Hui Pun Hing Building 許磐卿樓) , known [...]
Prologue: Before 1978
The Department of Fine Arts was established in 1978, but the teaching of art history at HKU did not begin that year. More than two decades earlier, in 1953, Professor Frederick Seguier Drake 林仰山 (1892-1974), as the Head of Chinese Department and the Founder of the Institute of Oriental [...]
Chuang Shen: Beauty of the Origin
“On 9th December, 1998, the Department of Fine Arts hosted a grand banquet in celebration of its 20th anniversary…When teacher Chuang and his wife entered the room, everybody, including former and current students, teachers, all rose and burst into a wild applause. It was an emotional moment.” [1] [...]
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