Asia Materialized: Perceptions of China in Renaissance Florence

Irene Backus, a Ph.D. candidate in the Art History Department at the University of Chicago will speak on perceptions of China in renaissance Italy.

This workshop serves as a critical forum for the presentation of work addressing problems in the visual and material studies of East Asia, a region defined broadly to include China, Central, Asia, Japan, Korea, and Tibet. This workshop explores if and how theories of visuality current in western contexts may be applied to East Asia, and how approaches from both Eastern and Western scholarship may be fruitfully combined in visual and material studies.