From Material Exchange in Eurasia to Liberating Appropriations in World Art

From Material Exchange in Eurasia to Liberating Appropriations in World Art

Wang Haicheng (Art, University of Washington)
Friday, February 24 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

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 earned his MA at Peking University (2000) and PhD at Princeton (2007). His research interest focuses on the art and archaeology of early China, especially the comparative studies between Bronze Age China and other early civilizations. He is also interested in the art and archaeology of the Silk Routes.

Sponsored by the Department of History, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, and the IHC’s Ancient Borderlands RFG.