Professor Hui-shu Lee Chinese Art History Lecture Series: Agency and Gendered Expression in Chinese Art
Jointly organized by Department of Fine Arts and Institute of Chinese Studies, CUHK
Sponsored by Bei Shan Tang Foundation
Abstract:
Agency is the capacity of an agent (person or entity) to act. Agency concerns everything humans do that has an effect on the world. This seminar explores the outlook and capacity of how the notion of agency can be applied to the study of Chinese art. Is agency discernible in a painting? And how might gendered dimensions be shown?
Speaker: Prof. Hui-shu LEE (Visiting Scholar, Department of Fine Arts and Institute of Chinese Studies, CUHK; Professor, Department of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles), Professor of Art History at UCLA. She received her doctorate degree from Yale University in 1994 after working in the Palace Museum, Taipei. Her field of specialization is Chinese painting and visual culture in the pre-modern era, with a particular focus on gender issues. She also works extensively on representations of place, cultural mapping, and gardens. Among her publications are Exquisite Moments: West Lake & Southern Song Art (New York: China Institute, 2001) and Empresses, Art, and Agency in Song Dynasty China (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010). She is currently completing a book titled Picturing West Lake: the Poetics and Representation of An Iconic Place.
Date: 20.03.2024 (Wed)
Time: 4:30pm－6:00pm (Tea Reception at 4pm)
Venue: Activities Room, 2/F, East Wing, Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Language: Mandarin (with simultaneous interpretation in English via Webinar)
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