{"id":6647,"date":"2020-08-25T08:18:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T08:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=6647"},"modified":"2020-08-25T08:40:51","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T08:40:51","slug":"an-unexpected-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/event\/an-unexpected-masterpiece\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unexpected Masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong>Art and its Histories: Scholars in Lecture<\/strong><\/h5>\n<h2>An Unexpected Masterpiece: Luo Ping\u2019s <em>Ghost Amusement Scroll<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Date: \u00a09 September 2020 (Wednesday)<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Time: 6:30-7:30pm<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Registration: <\/strong><strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/238804797318394\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Click here to join the Free Facebook Live Webinar<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This 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 \u201cmasterpiece.\u201d 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\u2019s shadow. It also collected over 160 admiring colophons. So why did this painting garner such attention? Why is <strong>Luo Ping\u2019s<\/strong> <em>Ghost Amusement Scroll<\/em> important? This lecture given by HKU\u2019s <strong>Dr. Yeewan Koon<\/strong> in conversation with Orientations Magazine publisher <strong>Yifawn Lee<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Art and its Histories: Scholars in Lecture<\/strong> 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\u2019s broader dedication to promoting the importance and relevance of art history in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<article id=\"post-5770\" class=\"post-5770 fa_events type-fa_events status-publish hentry fa_event_type-other-events\">\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\"><\/footer>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"post-5555\" class=\"post-5555 fa_events type-fa_events status-publish hentry fa_event_type-other-events\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<\/article>\n<p><strong>Speaker:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/people\/yeewan-koon\/\"><strong>Dr<\/strong>. <strong>Yeewan Koon<\/strong><\/a> 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 \u201cself-knowing\u201d copy in the sixteenth century. Koon\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yifawn Lee<\/strong>\u00a0is 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 \u2018The Blue Road: Mastercrafts from Persia\u2019 at Liang Yi Museum and \u2018From Two Arises Three: The Collaborative Works of Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney\u2019 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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Co-presented by:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/asia-society-logo-e1588912713840.png\">\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/asiasociety.org\/hong-kong\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3660 \" src=\"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/asia-society-logo-e1588912713840.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"92\" height=\"92\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/friendshkmoa.hk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-6651 \" src=\"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/friends-of-hkmoa-logo-300x56.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"43\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/friends-of-hkmoa-logo-200x37.png 200w, https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/friends-of-hkmoa-logo-300x56.png 300w, https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/friends-of-hkmoa-logo-400x75.png 400w, https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/friends-of-hkmoa-logo.png 568w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hkums.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4855\" src=\"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/header-logo-300x109.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/header-logo-200x73.png 200w, https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/header-logo-300x109.png 300w, https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/header-logo.png 377w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art and its Histories: Scholars in Lecture An Unexpected Masterpiece: Luo Ping\u2019s Ghost Amusement Scroll Date: \u00a09 September 2020 (Wednesday) Time: 6:30-7:30pm Registration: Click here to join the Free Facebook [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6649,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[47,44,46,28,282,156,184,153,249],"tribe_events_cat":[142,19],"class_list":["post-6647","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-art-its-histories","tag-asia-society","tag-beyondhku","tag-coorganized","tag-friendshkmoa","tag-hkums","tag-hkuscholar","tag-koon","tag-onlinetalk","tribe_events_cat-2020-2021","tribe_events_cat-lecture-series","cat_2020-2021","cat_lecture-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6654,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/6647\/revisions\/6654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6647"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=6647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}