Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

28^th June: Princeton University Art Museum. Art Viewing.
29^th June: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Art Viewing.
30^th June – 1^st July: Qing Images and Imaginaries; A Workshop in Qing Art

The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University will host an international workshop on Qing images and imaginaries. In recent years there have been numerous exhibitions focusing on aspects of Qing art that are often framed as court, individualist and orthodox arts, defined by social positions and ink-style practices. This closed workshop aims to investigate alternative narratives that have been obscured by the discipline’s compulsion to anchor brush-trace as the defining quality of Chinese painting. Paralleling this disciplinary trend was the formation of imaginaries of the Qing that reinforced certain rhetoric and structure of Chinese art history.

The workshop will bring together international scholars to present new and original research and directed at a more comprehensive and deeper discussion of Qing art in a variety of contexts. Papers include, but are not limited to the following: image as historical agents, image as picture, materiality and presence, modes of picturing, and the memory politics of representations. This workshop is directed at a more comprehensive understanding of the visual arts in a variety of contexts. One aim of the workshop is not to treat the papers as isolated works, but to engage with one another at a dialogical and interrogative manner, and as catalyst for further discussions on Qing art.

See also: A Connective History of Qing Art: Visuality, Images and Imaginaries hosted at the University of Hong Kong.