VRC launches collection with Hyde Park Art Center
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.
Zhou wins Liu Cong Memorial Prize
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.
Letters from the Local Bazaar: Scraps and Scrolls of Mobility in the Global Eras of Art
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.
The Republic of Color
Michael Rossi discusses The Republic of Color: Science, Perception, and the Making of Modern America. Darby English will moderate and a Q&A and signing will follow the discussion.
Presented in partnership with the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT)
At the Co-op
2020 AAP PROSE Award for Neer
Richard Neer, the Barbara E. and Richard J. Franke Distinguished Service Professor in Art History, Cinema & Media Studies, and the College, along with his co-author Leslie Kurke (University of California, Berkeley) have been awarded the 2020 PROSE Award in the Classics subject category.
Sugar, Slavery, and Subjectivity: On Henry Fuseli's Oroonoko and Several Others
VMPEA: Nancy Lin
“'That artwork doesn't exist': Productive misreadings of performance documentation and what happens when you find out the truth.”
Nancy Lin, PhD candidate, Department of Art History
Co-sponsored with Speaking of Art: Artist Interviews in Scholarship and Practice.
VMPEA: Luo Rufei
“A Preliminary Research on Images of Thousand Buddhas in Tibet: Taking the Murals of Pegdongpo Cave in Zanda County in Ngari Prefecture of Western Tibet as an Example” 西藏千佛图像初探——以西藏西部阿里地区札达县白东波石窟壁画为例
Luo Rufei, PhD candidate, Zhejiang University; exchange student, University of Chicago
Respondent: Dongshan Zhang, PhD candidate, Department of Art History
Stamps provide rare picture of North Korea
Last year, Jee-Young Park, Korean Studies Librarian at the University of Chicago, acquired 2,000 North Korean postage stamps spanning 1962–2018. The stamps—many of which arrived in thematic stamp albums—depict a surprising variety of topics and images, including political propaganda and North Korean architecture as well as animals, art and culture, and more.
English receives Frank Jewett Mather Award
Darby English, the Carl Darling Buck Professor of Art History, has received the 2020 Frank Jewett Mather Award for his book, To Describe a Life: Notes from the Intersection of Art and Race Terror