Colloquia
2011–2012 Graduate Student Symposium in East Asian Art
Myths and orthodoxies have given rise to compelling beliefs and canonical lineages in the arts and art histories of East Asia. The narratives of myths and orthodoxies uphold certain “truths” at the expense of others, to serve the needs of those who perpetuate them. But only certain histories become “orthdox,” and only particular stories take on the title of “myth.” The “myths” and “orthodoxies” of historiography exert a further force that shapes the history of art. How do these stories sustain their power, and when do they lose power? Who decides? Do visual materials create, communicate, and maintain myths and orthodoxies in certain ways that texts can never accomplish?
This program brings together graduate students of East Asian art history from across the U.S. and Europe to discuss such questions. The keynote speaker, Professor Donald F. McCallum of UCLA, sets the stage for a diverse program of topics that cover all areas of East Asia geographically and span a broad range of topics: from textual orthodoxies of calligraphic replication to conflicting orthodoxies of vision and rhetoric in Chinese painting, orthodoxies of iconographic Buddhist transmissions, mythologizing effects of secred Buddhist images, myths of the distant other, and political uses of the mythological past.
Contact
Contact Mike Hatch and Mimi Chusid (Myths.Orthodoxies@gmail.com) with questions and concerns.
Symposium Program
Saturday, 3 March 2012
101 McCormick Hall
Registration and Coffee
8:30–9:30 a.m.
Morning Session
9:30 a.m.–12:45 p.m.
Welcome
Miriam Chusid
Princeton University
Keynote Lecture:
Asuka Myths and Orthodoxies: Ikarugadera—Umayado no ōji— Hōryūji
Professor Donald McCallum
Department of Art History, UCLA
Charming Maiden or Churlish Demon: Representations of the Mountain Spirit in the Nine Songs
Anne Feng
Department of Art History, University of Chicago
How One Scroll of Paper Altered Ten Stone Drums: Xianyu Shu’s (1246–1302) Song of the Stone Drums (1301)
Ingrid Yeung
Department of the History of Art, Yale University
The Myth of the Orthodox and Individualist Schools in Qing Dynasty Landscape Painting
Michael Hatch
Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University
Discussion
Discussant: Professor Donald F. McCallum
Moderator: Miriam Chusid, Princeton University
Afternoon Session
2:15–5:30 p.m.
From Myth to Orthodox Icon? The Medieval Chinese Reception of the Buddha Statue at the Mahābodhi Temple of Bodhgayā, India
Sun-ah Choi
Department of Art History, University of Chicago
The Power of Concealment: The Hidden Icon of Gohōzenshin at Miidera
Holly N. Rubalcava
Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin
The Backward Glance: Beautiful Women and Liminal Spaces in Seventeeth-Century Japan
Radu Leca
Department of the History of Art, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Nativist Root Sought in the Hinterlands: Chen Danqing’s “Tibetan Series” (1980)
Yao Wu
Department of Art & Art History, Stanford University
To Fly When Others Run: Art, Politics, and the Myth of the Thousand-Mile-Horse in the North Korean Chollima Movement of 1957
Peter Sukonek
Department of the History of Art, Yale University
Discussion and Conclusion
Discussant: Professor Donald F. McCallum
Moderator: Michael Hatch, Princeton University