From Material Exchange in Eurasia to Liberating Appropriations in World Art

This talk will be divided into two parts. The first part will give two case studies of material exchange in Eurasia during the first millennium B.C. In the second part the implications of these examples of material exchange for the study of Chinese art will be given, using illustrations mainly from later Chinese art, after the introduction of Buddhism into China at the end of the Han dynasty to the early Qing dynasty.
Wang Haicheng is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Washington (Seattle). He earned his MA at Peking University (2000) and PhD at Princeton University (2007). His research focuses on the art and archaeology of early China, especially on comparative studies between Bronze Age China and other early civilizations. He is also interested in the art and archaeology of the Silk Routes. He has conducted archaeological fieldwork– both excavations and surveys– on both Neolithic and historic-period sites on the Silk Routes.

This talk is sponsored by East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, Art History & Architectures, the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program, the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center.

jwil 18.i.2012