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< Back The First Annual Symposium of the Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago May 16-17, 2003. Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago 1100 East 57th Street, JRL S102, Chicago IL 60637 In use by the ninth century, woodblock printing grew over the next centuries for propagating religious faiths, for education, entertainment, and as an art form. Photography, lithography, and photolithography were introduced to China and Japan in the second half of the nineteenth century. The new media accompanied other kinds of technological and social changes in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and spearheaded the rise of new artistic and social forms of print, such as the newspaper and the pictorial magazine, with new audiences and markets. The symposium encourages new perspectives on the roles that prints and photography have played in shaping East Asian visual culture that may reveal interactions between traditional and modern image production and indicate future directions in this field. Friday, May 16 9:00-9:15 am, Opening remarks: Wu Hung 9:15-12:15 Panel 1: Prints as Visual Technology and Cultural Practice Chair: Wu Hung (University of Chicago) Katherine Tsiang Mino (University of Chicago), “Reproduction and Reception of Early Printed Buddhist Texts and Images” Jennifer Purtle (University of Chicago), “Scopic Frames: Pre-Cinematic Visuality and Late Ming Illustrated Drama” Judith Zeitlin (University of Chicago), “Illustrated Verses from the Late Ming Pleasure Quarter” Timon Screech (University of London), “Problems with Perspective in Japanese Prints” 1:30-4:30 Panel 2: Visualizations of Modernity Chair: Lydia Liu (University of Michigan) Bao Weihong (University of Chicago), “A Pictorial Vernacular of Modernity: Dianshizhai huabao and the Panoramic Perception of the World” Andrew Jones (University of California, Berkeley), “Portable Architecture: Photographic Media and the 'Forms' of Empire in Modern China” Larissa Heinrich (Reed College), “The Pathological Empire: Early Medical Photography in China and the Phenomenology of the Specimen” Gennifer Weisenfeld (Duke University), “Japanese Commercial Photography and the Modernist Imagination” Saturday, May 17 9:00-12:00 Panel 3: Translated Acts Chair: Timon Screech (University of London) Lydia Liu (University of Michigan), “A Palimpsest of Desire: The Emperor's Throne Chairs” Allen Hockley (Dartmouth College), “The Battles of Shimonoseki and Kagoshima: Early East-West Warfare in Prints and Photographs” Xiaobing Tang (University of Chicago), “Between Photography and Prints: Shanghai in 1932” Joel Smith (Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar), “Modernism and Japonisme: Art Photography and/as Transcultural Traffic” 1:30-3:30 Panel 4: Aestheticization and Pictorialization Chair: Katherine Tsiang Mino (University of Chicago) William Schaefer (University of Minnesota), “Re-Orienting Images: Writing, Photography, and Chinese Landscapes” Julia Adeney Thomas (University of Notre Dame), “Photography and the Aesthetics of Occupation in 20th-century Japan” Wu Hung (University of Chicago), “Old Photo Fever in 90's China” 3:30-5:00 Discussion and Closing Comments This conference is generously co-sponsored by the Adelyn Russell Bogert Fund of the Franke Institute for the Humanities and the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago |
