UChicago CAEA Symposia Series
Exhibiting East Asian Art in a Global Context
Edited by Wei-Cheng Lin and Chelsea Foxwell
This volume brings together leading curators and scholars to explore the global formation and ongoing transformation of East Asian art history. Originating in a symposium at the University of Chicago's Center for the Art of East Asia, these essays investigate how collecting practices, exhibition histories, and museum frameworks in such cities as Boston, Paris, London, and beyond have shaped and reshaped the understanding of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean art.
Affect and Materiality: Emotion in Chinese Art
Edited by Jeehee Hong and Wu Hung
This volume examines the relationships among emotion, materiality, and artistic expression in Chinese art. Its essays bring together varied historical and methodological perspectives on how objects embody, communicate, and elicit affective experience.
Photography and East Asian Art
Edited by Wu Hung and Chelsea Foxwell
Richly illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs of historical figures, texts, famous sites and masterworks, this volume examines photography’s profound impact on East Asian art and visual culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Inspired by the “Photography and the Art of East Asia” symposium held at the University of Chicago in May 2015, co-editors Wu Hung and Chelsea Foxwell have compiled these scholarly studies into a new book that deepens understanding of this important field of study.
Refiguring East Asian Religious Art
Edited by Wu Hung and Paul Copp
This volume of twelve chapters is divided into four sections titled "Death of the Buddha and Buddhist Icons," "Kinship and Commemoration," "Filial Piety and Politics," and "Constructing Ritual Space." These chapters explore the powerful transformations that took place within ancient Buddhist societies when the life an individual came to an end and took on new life in unique forms of religious art and architecture. Dealing with concrete historical examples, these essays not only delve deep into the tightly woven interpersonal relationships, loyalties, and intense devotion that led to the creation of these religious and societal practices, they also challenge both the modern scholar and general reader to see with fresh eyes and refigure how we experience, conceptualize, and understand East Asian religious art.
The Multivalent Screen
Edited by Foong Ping and Chelsea Foxwell
This volume of essays makes the art of screens its focus of inquiry. Originally written for the Center for the Art of East Asia’s 2011 symposium, “The Screen in East Asia and Beyond,” these nine essays take a fresh look at the complexity of this traditional art form by presenting the most recent art historical research and analysis of archaeological evidence. Starting from Bronze Age China, the essays address the historic use of screens in East Asia, the materials used in their creation, and the significance of their artistic content. The essays explore a variety of philosophical, religious, political, aesthetic, and gender issues related to the production of the screens.