Ping Foong
Contact Information
256 Cochrane-Woods Art Center
5540 South Greenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
773.702.0256
pfoong@uchicago.edu
Ph.D. Princeton University - Chinese Art and Archaeology, research specialization in Northern Song Dynasty landscape painting (tenth to eleventh centuries) within institutional and architectural contexts. Ongoing interests in word and image issues, such as the interplay between visual evidence and poetic description; literati and literary culture, society, and identity; collecting and connoisseurship, Museum acquisitions and exhibitions. Current research is on spatial strategies in early Chinese visual culture.
Recent Publications
- The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection, R. E. Harrist, et. al. (Princeton: The Art Museum and H. N. Abrams, 1999), exh. cat. entry, 1999.
- "Landscape Screens in the Mogao Caves as Spatial Simulacra," Bridges to Heaven: Essays on East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Wen C. Fong(P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art and the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, in association with Princeton University Press, 2007), Forthcoming.
- "Guo Xi's Intimate Landscapes and the Case of Old Trees, Level Distance," Metropolitan Museum Journal 35 (2000): 87-115.