October 30, 2009
6 p.m.
Amy McNair, Professor of Chinese Art, Kress Foundation Department of Art History, University of Kansas
Is This Writing Barbarous? A Medieval Chinese Stele and Its 20th-Century Reception
Professor McNair is the preeminent scholar in Tang dynasty calligraphy and Buddhist art. Her recent book about Buddhist inscription in the cave site of Longmen in Henan Province, “Donors of Longmen: Faith, Politics, and Patronage in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpture,” is a very important step in research about Chinese calligraphy, combining with the cultural understanding of Buddhism in Medieval China. She has won many national and international fellowships and honors and is the recent recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship. The topic for her fellowship, “Lives of the Imperial Painters: Chinese Biographies in Translation,” was the translation of the 12th-century “Catalogue of the Imperial Painting Collection in the Proclaiming Harmony Era.”
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