2016 / Huntington Library to present symposium about Chinese woodblock prints, Nov. 12

Word and Image: Chinese Woodblock Prints
A symposium at
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens

Location: Rothenberg Hall, at The Huntington
1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108

Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016

The late Ming witnessed an unprecedented production of woodblock images printed for many different purposes including illustrations for drama and games, decorations for stationary paper or ink making, as well as pictorial works for the market.

This symposium, organized in conjunction with the exhibition “Gardens, Art, and Commerce in Chinese Woodblock Prints,” on view at the Huntington from Sept. 17, 2016 to Jan. 9, 2017, will explore the relationship and interaction between image and text in woodblock prints during the late Ming and Qing periods.

Registration and lunch are by reservation only. http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2571686 or 800-838-3006

For questions, please contact: Michelle Bailey, mbailey@huntington.org, 626-405-3503

This symposium was made possible by generous support from the Justin Vajna Memorial Fund for Educational Programs in the Chinese Garden.

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Word and Image: Chinese Woodblock Prints
Saturday, November 12, 2016

8:30 a.m. registration & Coffee

9:15 a.m. Welcome and Introduction
June Li, curator emerita, Garden of Flowing Fragrance, The Huntington
Suzanne E. Wright, associate professor, School of Art: Art History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

9:30 a.m. Keynote Speaker
Nature, Print, and Art: Commerce and Garden Culture in Late Imperial China
Kai-Wing Chow, associate head, professor of East Asian languages and cultures, professor of history, Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

10:00 a.m. Morning Session
Moderator: Soren Edgren, professor, Rare Book School, former editorial director of the Chinese Rare Books Project

10:15 a.m. Illustrating encyclopedic Knowledge in the Ming
He Yuming, associate professor of Chinese, East Asian languages and cultures, University of California, Davis

10:50 a.m. 15-minute break

11:05 a.m. The Kangxi emperor’s irty-Six views: The Making of an Imperial Publication
Richard Strassberg, professor emeritus, Asian languages and cultures, University of California, Los Angeles

11:40 a.m. Session discussion

12:15 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. Afternoon Session
Moderator: Lucille Chia, professor, Department of History, University of California, Riverside

2:15 p.m. Poetic Pictures in Late-Ming Illustrated dramatic Publications
Meng-ching Ma, associate professor, Center for General Education and Institute of History, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

2:50 p.m. The Swallow Messenger: text and Image
Suzanne E. Wright, associate professor, School of Art: Art History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

3:25 p.m. 15-minute break

3:40 p.m. A Panoply of Metaphor: Painting and Intermediality in the Late Ming
Hu Jun, assistant professor, East Asian art, Department of Art History, Northwestern University

4:15 p.m. Session discussion

4:45 p.m. Closing panel

This symposium is made possible by generous support from the Justin Vajna Memorial Fund for Educational Programs in the Chinese Garden.

Registration (General) $15.00
Registration and Luncheon $31.00
Registration (Student) Free
Luncheon only (for Students) $16.00

Registration and lunch are by reservation only:
http://brownpapertickets.com/event/257168
or 800-838-3006
registration closes Nov. 4, 2016.

For questions or vegetarian lunch, please contact:
Michelle Bailey, The Huntington, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108; mbailey@huntington.org; 626-405-3503.