March 2019
Troubling Memorials: Disgraced Monuments and Problematic Public Art in America Date: 13 March 2019 (Wednesday) Time: 4:30pm Venue: Room 4.36, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus From the toppling of [...]
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The Lamentation of Christ and the Melodramatic Imagination Date: 27 March 2019 (Wednesday) Time: 4:30pm Venue: Room 4.34, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus Melodrama, as famously defined by Peter [...]
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Digital Humanities? Exploring Technology’s Roles in Studying the Past Date: 3 April 2019 (Wednesday) Time: 5:00-6:00pm Venue: Room 4.34, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus A recent trend finds humanities [...]
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Models of Integrity examines the relationship between contemporary art and the law through the lens of integrity.
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The Botanical Illustrations of Boym's Flora Sinensis and Overlapping Knowledge Networks in Seventeenth-Century Eurasia Date: 29 August 2019 (Thursday) Time: 4:00pm Venue: Room 7.58, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus [...]
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In conversation with new media Artist Cao Shu
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A Tale of Two Books: Negotiating Art and Commerce in William Alexander’s Visions of Late 18th-Century China Date: 31 October 2019 (Thursday) Time: 5:00pm Venue: Room 7.58, Run Run Shaw [...]
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The 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.
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One 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.
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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.
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