Michael Sorkin (AB '69), whose contrarian imagination inspired generations of love for what cities can maybe be, passed away of the coronavirus on Thursday in New York. The following are just one set of reflections, of a man who was extraordinarily multiple.
“Global Modernisms and 'Homeless' Nihonga: The Art of Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani”
Maki Kaneko, PhD., Associate Professor, The Kress Foundation Department of Art History, University of Kansas
Discussant: Chelsea Foxwell, PhD., Associate Professor of Art History and the College, Department of Art History
“Configuring A Vertical Field: Multi-Level Buddhist Cave-Temples in Dunhuang and beyond”
Zhenru Zhou, PhD candidate, Department of Art History
Discussant: Jiayi Zhu, PhD student, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
“Simplification and Integration: Revisiting hun-ping (Spirit-Jar) in the 1st to 4th Centuries CE”
JIN Hongxiang, visiting PhD candidate, Department of Art History, University of Chicago; PhD candidate, School of History & Culture, Sichuan University
Discussant: Li Jiang, PhD student, Department of Art History
This workshop will take place on Zoom. Meeting information will be released a week in advance of the workshop.
“A Complimentary Study of shuilu-hua (the Painting of Water-and-Land Rituals) in Qinglong Temple (Temple of Blue Dragon) in Jishan County (Shanxi, China) (稷山青龙寺水陆画考补)”
SUN Bo, PhD., Visiting Scholar, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University; Associate Research Professor and Director of Science and Art Office, Exhibition Department in National Museum of China
Discussant: TAO Jin, Master’s student, Divinity School
This talk will be delivered in Chinese.
“Reconstructing the Nation: contemporary Korean photography since the 1990s”
Boyoung Chang, PhD., Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Art History
Discussant: Tingting Xu, PhD candidate, Department of Art History
Join UChiArch for a lecture from Dario Donetti on Florentine architect Giuliano da Sangallo, with particular insights regarding his work as a draftsman.
Free
Reception in lounge to proceed the lecture. Free food will be provided.
The Visual Resources Center is pleased to announce the launch of a new collection on the LUNA database which features selections from the Hyde Park Art Center exhibition archive.
The Center for the Art of East Asia is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2019-2020 Liu Cong Memorial Prize for the Best Essay on East Asian Art and Visual Culture is Zhenru Zhou.
Northern and western India’s well-traveled Jain merchants commissioned numerous letters; between 1400 and 1900 to invite eminent monks to their towns. They sought to entice recipients with pictures of urban places and completed journeys. In a letter sent from the port of Diu, ca. 1666, painters and scribes juxtaposed the vignette of Jain monks and nuns who would walk long tracts of land on foot with the image of Portuguese merchants who had crossed the vast expanse of sea on ships.