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Reinventing the Past: Antiquarianism in East Asian Art and Visual Culture—Part 1
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A symposium organized by the Center for the Art of East Asia, Department of Art History
Antiquarianism has been an important element and moving force in the continuity, renewal, and reshaping of the art and cultural identity of East Asia from ancient times to the modern age. This fourth annual symposium of the Center for the Art of East Asia reexamines the phenomenon of antiquarianism by broadening the focus of study to all types of antiquarian knowledge, activities, and influences in East Asia and their impact on art and visual culture. More specifically, the conference proposes to address the following four large topics:
1) The historical evidence of antiquarianism as a broad and continuous art and cultural tradition and its different permutations; key figures, events, publications, and trends in this tradition through time and across regions.
2) Relationships between antiquarianism and artistic creation; the realization of the concept of "gu" (ancient) in various art and architectonic forms including painting, calligraphy, bronze, ceramic, sculpture, and architecture.
3) The scope and influence of antiquarianism in East Asian visual cultures beyond the elite circles of antiquarians; the roles of the antique market, antique collecting, and antique catalogues in shaping taste and fashion in society at large.
4) Relationships between antiquarianism and the changing notions of the past; the ways in which our understanding of East Asian art history is conditioned by traditional antiquarian scholarship.
Participants interested in all regions of East Asia and its peripheries are encouraged to engage with these issues and others of their choosing. The symposium organizers encourage explorations of avenues that cross cultural, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries and that open new territory for academic inquiry. We hope that this conference and the resulting publication will cast new light on the understudied influence of antiquarianism on the art and culture of East Asia, and will help develop new perspectives for future studies.
The Symposium will be made possible with generous support from the Japan Committee at the Center for East Asian Studies, The Franke Institute for the Humanities in the University of Chicago, and other sources of funding.
May 13, 2006
Franke Institute for the Humanities
University of Chicago
9:00 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Wu Hung
9:30 : Panel 1— Reclaiming the Past: Cataloguing and Collecting
Chair—Katherine Tsiang Mino
Robert E. Harrist, Jr - Columbia University
"Too Big to Handle: Monumental Inscriptions and Antiquarian Research."
Yun-chiahn Chen Sena, University of Chicago
"Cataloguing Antiquity: Song Scholarship on Ancient Objects"
Read Abstract
Andrew Watsky, Vassar College
"'Tang things' in Momoyama Japan"
Read Abstract
Burglind Jungmann, UCLA
"Another Romantic View of Chinese Antiquity - Prince Anp' yŏng 's Collection of Song and Yuan Paintings"
Read Abstract
Discussion
12:00 pm : Lunch
1:30 : Panel 2— Antiquarianism, Identity, and Empire
Chair—Hans Thomsen
Chin-sung Chang, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
"From Ambivalence to Indulgence: The Moral Geography of Collectors in Late Choson Korea."
Read Abstract
William Coaldrake, University of Melbourne
"Architectural Antiquarianism, Japanese Models and the Construction of a Modern Empire at the Vienna 1873 and Japan-British 1910 Exhibitions"
Read Abstract
Tonia Eckfeld, University of Chicago post-doc fellow
"Reinventing the Past and Inventing a Dynasty: Inspiration, Monuments of the Past and the Consolidation of Tang Dynastic Legitimacy"
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Cheng-hua Wang, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
"The Qing Imperial Collection, ca. 1905-1925: Emotions, Ideas, and Events"
Read Abstract
Discussion
5:00 pm : Reception
The Japan Studies Committee in the Center for East Asian Studies, The Adelyn Russell Bogert Endowment Fund of the Franke Institute for the Humanities
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