Happy Lunar New Year from the USC US-China Institute!
Lecture: Folk Art, Revolutionary Politics, and Market Economics
The China Institute in America will be hosting a talk by Ralph Croizier on the impact of woodblock printing and painting movements on modern Chinese Art.
When:
September 28, 2010 12:00am
Where
Where:
Ralph Croizier, Professor Emeritus of History of Art & Architecture and History at University of Victoria, is a distinguished scholar of seminal critical studies on art in post-Cultural Revolution China. He will discuss the evolution of the woodblock printing and peasant painting movements and their impact on contemporary Chinese art.
His publications include Traditional Medicine in Modern China: Science, Nationalism, and the Tensions of Cultural Choice (Harvard University Press, 1968), China's Cultural Legacy and Communism (Harvard, 1970), Myth, History and the Hero: Koxinga and Modern Chinese Nationalism (Harvard, 1976), and Art and Revolution in Modern China: The Cantonese School, 1906-1951 (Berkeley University of California Press, 1988). Professor Croizier was President of the World History Association from 2002 to 2003.
Tuesday, September 28 ~ 6:30 - 8PM
Cost:
$10 member / $15 non-member
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