CFP Panel "Reading Chinese Art", College Art Association (Deadline: May 9)

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"Reading Chinese Art," College Art Association panel, deadline May 9

Location: New York, United States
Conference Date: 2014-05-09 (in 16 days)
Date Submitted:  2014-04-22
Announcement ID:  213194

Call for paper for panel, "Reading Chinese Art," College Art Association, 103rd Annual Conference, New York, February 11-14, 2015

An interesting component running through Chinese art, theory, and criticism is the relationship between critical terms and visual art. The question is: Why are texts so significant to understanding Chinese art from practically the beginning of the written word during the Shang Dynasty up through modern times?  Text types that illuminate art can range from inscriptions on Bronze Age vessels or oracle bones to learned inscriptions on paintings, to self-reflective commentaries by 19th-century collectors. Some terms such as yi 異, inscribed on Bronze Age vessels and on oracle bones, illuminate early values and thought where history is otherwise elusive. Others, such as qi 奇 during the 17th century, reveal broad cultural discourses concerning originality, which have long been forgotten. 

This panel seeks papers that examine critical terms and ideas that help define values and/or eras. Interest here is on how textual material throughout Chinese history influences our understanding of that art.

Queries and proposals for papers should be sent to the panel organizers Katharine Burnett, UC Davis (kpburnett@ucdavis.edu ), and Elizabeth Childs-Johnson, Old Dominion University (echildsjohnson@gmail.com) by the hard deadline:  May 9, 2014.


Katharine Burnett
UC Davis

Elizabeth Childs-Johnson
Old Dominion University

Visit the website at http://www.collegeart.org/proposals/2015callforparticipation

See: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=213194
 

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