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Looking Modern: East Asian Visual Culture from the Treaty Ports to World War II |
< Back A Symposium Organized by the Center for the Art of East Asia in the Department of Art History, University of Chicago The second annual symposium organized by the Center for the Art of East Asia examines multiple dimensions of visual modernity in East Asia from the end of thenineteenth century through the early decades of twentieth. It will be held in conjunction with the opening of the exhibition, Taisho Chic: Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia, and Deco at the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, April 22-June 20, 2004. The exhibition focuses on interactions between traditional Japanese artforms and subject matter with modernist ideas and themes from the west, including the dominant modernist design of the period—art deco. To expand upon the themes and geographical boundaries of the exhibition and encourage exploration of avenues that cross disciplinary boundaries, the symposium examines art and visual dimensions of activities in many areas of human endeavor outside of artistic production. It hopes to throw new light on previously understudied aspects of the visual culture of this crucial period in recent history and develop new perspectives for future work. The cultures of East Asia experienced radical changes in their views of the world and their lived environment in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Many of these developments were linked with treaty ports, the growth of urban centers, and the growth of new technology and increasing contact with the West. Modern views of the world appeared in geography and cartography, urban planning and architecture, travel, transportation, and military planning. There was a rapid growth of new imaging media in commercial printing, photography, and cinema. The impact of modern commerce and mass consumption in a money-based economy is seen in the spread of advertising and of new kinds of commercial establishments. Modernized living habits, leisurely pursuits, sports, grooming, and fashion changed the perception and presentation of the body. New jobs emerged, new gender roles, new forms of religious worship, law enforcement, and military conscription. A dynamic interplay between traditional and modern values and customs can seen in changing lifestyles that could be fraught with tension, anxiety, and conflict as well as infused with knowledge, wealth, beauty, and new possibilities. The symposium is co-sponsored by The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, the Japan Committee and the China Committee of the Center for East Asian Studies, and the Adelyn Russell Bogert Fund of the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago. It will be held on April 23 and 24, 2004 at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, 1100 East 57th Street, Chicago IL 60637. PROGRAM Looking Modern: East Asian Visual Culture from Treaty Ports to World War II—A symposium organized by the Center for the Art of East Asia, Department of Art History, University of Chicago Location: The Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago 1100 East 57th Street, Chicago IL 60637 Friday April 23, 2004 9:00 am Opening remarks, Wu Hung, University of Chicago Cities, Landscape, Travel—Chair, Norma Field, University of Chicago Emma Teng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Foreign Languages & Literatures “Visuality and Frontier Travel in Qing China” [Read Abstract] Delin Lai, University of Chicago, Art History “Restructuring, Reorganization, and Redefinition– Modern Transformation of the City and Architecture of Guangzhou, 1910-1930s” [Read Abstract] Lisa Claypool, Lewis and Clark, Art History "Notes on the Nantong Museum 'Hall for the Adventuring Eye.'" [Read Abstract] 1:30 pm Media and Marketplace—Chair: Stephen Little, Honolulu Academy of Art Chialing Yang, University of Chicago, Art History “The Crisis of the Real -- Photography and Portraiture in Late Nineteenth Century Shanghai” [Read Abstract] Kristine Harris, State University of New York, College at New Paltz, History “Designs for Filming: Deco Style and Chinese Cinema” [Read Abstract] Jennifer Purtle, University of Chicago, Art History "Circular Images: Picturing Political Economy in Republican Chinese Banknotes" Hans Thomsen, University of Chicago, Art History “Old and New Brushes: Calligraphy Collections and Imported Aesthetics in Showa Japan” 5:00-7:30 pm Reception and viewing of exhibition—“Taisho Chic: Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia, and Deco,” The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art Saturday, April 24 9:00 am Technology, War, Colonialism—Chair: Xiaobing Tang Hyung Il Pai, University of California at Santa Barbara, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies "Preserving the Ruins of Identity: Colonial Archaeology and Photography in the Korean peninsula" [Read Abstract] Barak Kushner, Davidson College, History “Planes, Trains, and Games: Selling Japan’s War in Asia” [Read Abstract] Michael Raine, University of Chicago, EALC and Film Studies "Documentary Film as Visual Culture in Wartime Japan" 1:30 pm Modern Body—Chair, Katherine Tsiang Mino, University of Chicago Susan Burns, University of Chicago, History “Marketing Health and Beauty: Advertising Medicine and the Modern Body in Meiji-Taisho Japan” David Howell, Princeton, East Asian Studies and History “The Girl with the Horse-Dung Hairdo and Other Precocious Moderns in Mid-Meiji Japan” [Read Abstract] Greg Golley University of Chicago, EALC, Literature “The Real and the Abstract: Science and Eroticism in Tanizaki Junichiro" [Read Abstract] Madeleine Yue Dong, University of Washington, History and International Studies "The Chinese Modern Girl as Spectacle and Caricature." The symposium is co-sponsored by The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, the Japan Committee and the China Committee of the Center for East Asian Studies, and the Adelyn Russell Bogert Fund of the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago. Location: Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, 1100 East 57th Street, Chicago IL 60637 |
