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September 28, 2010

125 65th Street
New York, NY 10065
United States

Public Talk - New York, NY

Lecture: Folk Art, Revolutionary Politics, and Market Economics

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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