MCLC: Women's Art in Contemporary China

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: Shu-chin Tsui <scui2 at bowdoin.edu>
Subject: Women's Art in Contemporary China
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Female Embodiment of the Visual World: Women's Art in Contemporary China

An international Symposium in Conjunction with Art Exhibition
Bowdoin College Brunswick Maine
September 27-28, 2013

4:30-5:30 p.m. Friday, September 27, 2013
Kresge Auditorium
Exhibition Opening Keynote Address
Julia F. Andrews, Professor, Department of History of Art, Ohio State
University 
"Women Artists in 20th Century China: A Prehistory of the Contemporary"

8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Saturday, September 28, 2013
Beam, Visual Arts Center

As contemporary Chinese art gains worldwide prominence, where are the
women artists? Why are they so often absent from academic discourse and
scholarly publication? How do women’s art practices figure into critical
theory, gender politics, and aesthetics? Why have Chinese women artists
refused to have their work identified and defined in terms of feminism,
even if they seemingly engage in feminist art practices? In response to
these questions, this symposium initiates a platform for considering
Chinese women’s art. Leading scholars and critics from Asia and the United
States will present and discuss issues that concern artists as well as
viewers.  For more information and the complete schedule of the events,
please visit bowdoin.edu/asian-studies <http://bowdoin.edu/asian-studies>
and bowdoin.edu/art-museum/ <http://bowdoin.edu/art-museum/> FREE.

This international symposium is presented in conjunction with the Bowdoin
College Museum of Art exhibition Breakthrough: Work by Contemporary
Chinese Women Artists
<http://www.bowdoin.edu/art-museum/exhibitions/2013/breakthrough-contempora
ry-chinese-women-artists.shtml>, from September 27 to December 21, 2013.

SPONSORED BY: the Office of the Dean for Academic Affairs, The Bowdoin
College Museum of Art, the Asian Studies Program, and the Art Department.

Shu-chin Tsui
Associate Prof. of Asian Studies & Film Studies
Bowdoin College
Brunswick Maine  04011
207-725-3594
stsui at bowdoin.edu

Please check the coming events of international symposium & art
exhibition: 
http://bowdoin.edu/asian-studies/symposia/female-embodiment-of-the-visual-w
orld-2013/