Symposium:

Conflict and Consensus
in
Twentieth-Century Chinese Art

Saturday, May 23
10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
The Peter B. Lewis Theater
The Sackler Center for Arts Education
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street)
Admission $10 ($7 members, students, and seniors)
Box Office: (212) 423-3587

Morning Session: What Made Modern Chinese Art Modern ?

• Modernism and Modernity in Late Nineteenth-Century Shanghai Painting
  Jonathan Hay, Associate Professor of Art History
  Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
  
• Art at the Crossroads: Traditional Painters and Advertising Artists in Twentieth-Century Shanghai
  Ellen Johnston Laing, Research Associate
  Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
  
• China Roars: The Rise and Fall of the Avante-Garde Woodcut Movement
  Julia Andrews, Associate Professor of the History of Art
  The Ohio State University
  and Kuiyi Shen, Visiting Professor of Art History
  Rice University
  
  
  Discussant: Richard Vinograd, Chair, Department of Art, Stanford University
  

Afternoon Session: From Modernism to Communism

• China's Seduction by the West: The New Learning and Modern Painting
  May-ching Kao, Professor of Fine Arts and Director, Art Museum,
  The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  
• China's Modernist Moment: Shanghai in the 1930s
  Ralph Croizier, Professor of History
  University of Victoria
  
• The Art of New China in the World: A Neuropyschological Perspective
  John Onians, Director, Program in World Art Research Program,
  The University of East Anglia, and Assistant Director, Research and Academic Programs, Clark Art Institute
  
  Discussant: Robert Harrist, Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
  
• The Red Guard and Post-Mao Painting
  John Lebold Cohen, Research Associate, Fairbank Center, Harvard University, Author and Curator, New York
  
• The Winking Owl Once More: Thick Description and the Vagaries of Visual Perception in and after the Cultural Revolution
  Eugene Yuejin Wang, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts
  Department of Fine Arts, Harvard University
  
  Discussant: Sheng Tian Zheng, Director, Art Beatus Gallery
  
• The Traditionalism of the Avant-Garde: Early Fifth-Generation Cinema in Art-Historical Context
  Jerome Silbergeld, Professor of Art
  History, University of Washington
  
  Discussant: Sheng Tian Zheng
  Director, Art Beatus Gallery