22 May 2019 The Naked Form in Chinese Art Symposium, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Dear all,
You are cordially invited to join us next week for the The Naked Form in Chinese Art Symposium at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
The symposium is linked to our current exhibition The Naked Form in Modern Chinese Art curated by Dr Paul Bevan, Christensen Fellow in Chinese Painting.
SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME
10.45 - 11.05
Registration
11.05 - 11.15
Welcome and introduction
Dr Paul Bevan, Ashmolean Museum
11.15 -11.45
The Absence and Presence of ‘the Body’ in Pre-20th Century Chinese Art
Dr Luk Yu-ping, The British Museum
11.45 -12.15
Pictorial Magazines and the Naked Form in Chinese Art – 1934
Dr Paul Bevan, Ashmolean Museum
COFFEE BREAK
12.40 – 13.10
The Female Nude as Epistemological Citation
Di Wang, University of Oxford
LUNCH (not provided)
14.00 – 14.30
The Naked Body as Medium in Contemporary China
Dr Katie Hill, Sotheby’s Institute of Art
14.30 -15.20
Body Language: Exploration of the Nude from Differing Perspectives
Qu Leilei, artist
15.20 – 15.40
Q&A (all speakers)
15.45 -16.30
Guided Tour of the Exhibition The Naked Form in Modern Chinese Art
Meet in Gallery 29 (First Floor)
Please email chinesepaintingsprogramme@ashmus.ox.ac.uk for more information and free seats.
Felicitas von Droste zu Hülshoff
Chinese Paintings Programme Co-ordinator
Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
University of Oxford
Beaumont Street
Oxford OX1 2PH
chinesepaintingsprogramme@ashmus.ox.ac.uk
T+44 (0)1865 278460