Professor Stacey Pierson Chinese Art History Lecture Series: Architecture, Collecting and Spatial Aesthetics: Chinese Porcelain in Global Display Contexts
Jointly organized by Department of Fine Arts and Institute of Chinese Studies, CUHK
Sponsored by Bei Shan Tang Foundation
Abstract:
This lecture investigates the display of Chinese ceramics in global architectural contexts and considers whether such displays can be regarded as a form of collecting. Focusing on three key examples: reception room displays in Japan, porcelain rooms in Europe and religious architecture in the Middle East, we will explore how and why Chinese ceramics were gathered for display in these locations, how the displays were presented, and what the function of such displays was in each context. Through these examples it will be argued that a display can be viewed as both a context for the formation of a new collection and an active collecting space that redefines the objects within it.
Speaker: Professor Stacey Pierson is Professor of the History of Chinese Ceramics at SOAS, University of London. She is the former President of the Oriental Ceramic Society (London) and is series editor for the Routledge title Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1550-1950. From 1995 to 2007, she was Curator of the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. She has published widely on aspects of Chinese ceramics, Percival David and the history of collecting and exhibitions, including From Object to Concept: Global Consumption and the Transformation of Ming Porcelain (2013), Private Collecting, Exhibitions, and the Shaping of Art History in London: the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1866-1950 (2017), among others.
Date: 27.02.2024 (Thu)
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: English (with simultaneous interpretation in Mandarin via Webinar)
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