Speaker Bio
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller professor of Asian art at Harvard University, Eugene Wang is widely recognized as one of the more dynamic scholars thinking about the history of Chinese art—from early Buddhist art to contemporary installations—in contemporary terms. He is best known for his award-winning book, Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China (2005), but is also the prolific author of articles that are opening new avenues of approach to questions of Chinese art history that others have not yet thought to ask.
During his visit to Vancouver to give the14th Annual Heller Lectures at the Vancouver Art Gallery (downtown on Tuesday 17 March at 7 pm), Professor Wang has happily agreed to meet with graduate students, faculty, and others at UBC interested in how to think about Chinese art and culture in a global setting.
He will make a brief presentation on the theme of his new project, “Global Art, Global Mind,” then take part in a wide-ranging discussion of how to think about art in the context of recovering and re-imaging Chinese history.
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Sponsor: Centre for Chinese Research
By: Abby Aldrich Rockeffeller Professor Eugene Wang, Asian Art, Harvard University
Type: Seminar
