Chinese Painting since 1900: Scholarship, Exhibitions and Collections
International Conference, University of Oxford, China Centre
This international conference marking the centenary of the birth of Professor Michael Sullivan (1916-2013), pioneering scholar of modern and Chinese art, will focus on current and future research in the field of modern Chinese painting. Michael Sullivan was also a generous benefactor to the Ashmolean Museum, where his collection of modern Chinese art and his archive are now housed.
Confirmed speakers are An Yuanyuan (National Art Museum of China), Michelle Huang (Lingnan University, Hong Kong), Eric Lefebvre (Cernuschi Museum, Paris), Yan Liu (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford), Colin Mackenzie (Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City), Michaela Pej?ochová (National Gallery, Prague), Uta Rahman-Steinert (Museum of Asian Art, Berlin), Claire Roberts (University of Melbourne), Jerome Silbergeld (Princeton University), Yuen Kit Szeto (Hong Kong Museum of Art), Zhang Miaomiao (National Art Museum of China), Zhou Tongyu (independant researcher).
The conference, convened by Shelagh Vainker, will coincide with the Ashmolean Museum's exhibition Liu Dan: New Landscapes and Old Masters (20 October 2016 – 26 February 2017), and the second day of the conference will conclude with a reception in the exhibition.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Friday 28 October 2016
14.00
Conference registration
14.15 – 14.25
Conference kick-off
Shelagh Vainker, Ashmolean Museum
Afternoon panel
Modern Chinese Painting in Europe
Chair: Lyce Jankowski, Ashmolean Museum
14.30 – 15.00
Friendship under the red star – Building a collection of modern Chinese painting in the era of early socialism
Michaela Pejcochová, National Gallery in Prague
15.00 – 15.30
Artistic Exchange and the Zeitgeist. Artist’s Delegations in East Germany and China.
Uta Rahman-Steinert, Museum of Asian Art, National Museums in Berlin
15.30 – 16.00
Chinese artists in Paris after the Second World War: a generation attracted by abstraction
Eric Lefebvre, Cernuschi Museum, Paris
16.00 - 16.25
Coffee and tea break
16.25 - 16.55
Establishing Reputation: Exhibitions of Prominent Chinese Painters in Britain, 1935-1980
Michelle Huang, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
16.55 – 17.25
The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Collection of Chinese Art: An Introduction
Yan Liu, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
17.25 – 17.55
Question time and closing remarks of the day
Saturday 29 October 2016
10.00 - 10.15
Welcome
Alexander Sturgis, Director of the Ashmolean Museum
10.15 – 10.25
Keynote speech by An Yuanyuan, Deputy Director of the National Art Museum of China
Morning panel
Mediators of Modern Chinese Painting
Chair: Shelagh Vainker, Ashmolean Museum
10.30 – 11.00
Advocacy and Criticism: Michael Sullivan and Modern Chinese Art
Jerome Silbergeld, Princeton University
11.00 - 11.20
Coffee and tea break
11.20 – 11.50
Cultural Diplomacy in Wartime China: The British Council and Chinese Contemporary Art
Claire Roberts, University of Melbourne and Adelaide
11.50 – 12.20
Hong Kong, a sanctuary for Chinese painters and paintings during periods of turmoil in the 20th century
Yuen-Kit Szeto, Hong Kong Museum of Art
12.20 – 12.40
Question time and remarks
12.40 – 13.50
Lunch break (lunch not provided)
Afternoon panel
Research and exhibitions
Chair: Craig Clunas, University of Oxford
13.50 - 13.20
Three ways in which exhibitions engage with modern Chinese art history research
Zhang Miaomiao, National Art Museum of China
13.20 – 14.50
Wu Zuoren: Master of “New Chinese Painting”
Zhou Tongyu, independent researcher
14.50 -15.10
Coffee and tea break
15.10 -15.40
Liu Dan – Pencil and ink
Shelagh Vainker, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
15.40 - 16.10
Towards a Critical History of Contemporary Chinese painting
Colin Mackenzie, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
16.10 – 16.30
Questions and closing remarks of the conference
Please note that the programme may still be subject to slight changes
To register please vist the Website http://chinesepainting.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/
or contact chinesepaintingsprogrammeashmus.ox.ac.uk
Reference:
CONF: Chinese Painting since 1900 (Oxford, 28-29 Oct 16). In: ArtHist.net, Sep 26, 2016 (accessed Apr 28, 2024), <https://arthist.net/archive/13804>.