Tuesday, September 25, 2007

CONF.- Interchanges and Influences in Chinese Buddhist Sculpture, London, 2-3 Nov 2007

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CONF.- Interchanges & Influences in Chinese Buddhist Sculpture, London, 2-3 Nov

Posted by: Lilla Russell-Smith <russellsmith@btinternet.com>

"Interchanges and Influences in Chinese Buddhist Sculpture"
2-3 November 2007, 9am-6pm

This international academic conference will reassess Chinese Buddhist
Sculpture exploring issues of patronage, scientific dating,
conservation methods, multi-cultural influences, iconography and the
history of collecting. The conference is organised by Dr Anne Farrer,
Programme Director of the MA in East Asian Art, Sotheby's Institute of
Art, and Dr Lilla Russell-Smith, Chair, Circle of Inner Asian Art and
is supported by the British Academy and the Chiang Ching-kuo
Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange.

Papers will include topics of interest to readers of this list:

Annette Juliano (Professor of Asian Art History, Rutgers University,
Newark, USA) "Northern Zhou Buddhist sculpture reconsidered"

Madhuvanti Ghose (Alsdorf Curator of Indian and Himalayan Art, Art
Institute, Chicago, USA): "Some early Chinese Buddhist sculptures and
the influences upon them from the Indian sphere"

Ann Paludan (Independent scholar, UK) "Buddhist sculpture and the
classical tradition"

Lukas Nickel (Lecturer, Dept. of Art and Archaeology, SOAS, and
University College, University of London, UK): "Buddhist bronzes from
Shandong Province"

Zong Zhang (Research Fellow, Institute of World Religions, Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China):
"Steles and stupas: exemplification of the form changes in Chinese
Buddhist sculpture" (In Chinese with translation)

Katherine R. Tsiang (Associate Director, Center for the Art of East
Asia, Department of Art History, University of Chicago, USA): "Demons,
Jewels, and Sixteen Princes in the North Cave at Xiangtangshan"

Hsueh-man Shen (Lecturer and Senior Curator of Chinese Art at the
National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK): "Likeness and presence:
deposits inside Buddha statues"

Dorothy C. Wong (Associate professor, McIntire Department of Art,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA): "Tang Buddhist
sculptures brought to Japan in the seventh and eighth centuries"

Marianne Yaldiz (Independent scholar, Berlin, Germany): "Vajrapani in
the literature and the sculptural art of Central Asia"

Khau Ming Rubin (PhD Candidate, SOAS, London, UK): "Redating the
Buddhist sculpture of Yanqi (Karashahr), ancient Xinjiang"

Chhaya Bhattacharya-Haesner (Independent scholar, Berlin, Germany)
"Terracotta art of Khotan in the Turfan Collection of Museum für
Asiatische Kunst, Berlin"

Marilyn Gridley (Research Associate, Center for East Asian Studies,
University of Kansas, Lawrence, USA): "The meaning of the Uighur,
Liao, Amber Guanyin"

Kevin McLaughlin (Oriental Museum, Durham University): "Song lacquered
sculptures"

Roderick Whitfield (Emeritus Professor, Department of Art and
Archaeology, SOAS, London, UK): "Gilt bronze sculptures of Gansu and Ningxia"

Beth McKillop (Keeper, Asian Collections, Victoria and Albert Museum,
London, UK): "Buddhist sculpture from the Eumorfopoulos Collection in the V&A"

Györgyi Fajcsák (Curator, F. Hopp Museum of East Asian Art, Budapest,
Hungary): "In the footsteps of the Buddha: collecting Buddhist
sculpture in Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries"

Fee: £30 for one day; £50 for two days

Location: Sotheby's Institute of Art, 30 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3EE


To book a place please call Emilie Faure on +44 (0)20 7462 3249 or
send an email to e.faure@sothebysinstitute.com

For more information and a full list of speakers please see

http://www.sothebysinstitute.com/day-eve-6.html


Dr. Lilla Russell-Smith
Co-Editor, Journal of Inner Asian Art and Archaeology
Chair, Circle of Inner Asian Art
russellsmith@btinternet.com

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