SYMPOSIUM

Change, Continuity, and Conflict
in Twentieth Century Asian Art
October 22-23, 2009
University of Kentucky

Thursday, October 22 - 7:00pm

Keynote Lecture
Singletary Center for the Performing Arts Recital Hall
7:00pm - "Chinese Art in the Twentieth Century: Encounters and Recollections"
Professor Michael Sullivan, Fellow Emeritus, St. Catherine's College, Oxford University

Friday, October 23 - 9:00am to 5:00pm

Symposium
William T. Young Library Auditorium
9:00am - Welcome
Benjamin Withers, Chair, University of Kentucky Department of Art
9:10am - Greeting and introduction of first speaker
Andrew L. Maske, Assistant Professor of Art History, Department of Art, University of Kentucky
9:15am - "Ruin as Cultural Heritage: Architectural Survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki"
Akiko Takenaka, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Kentucky
9:50am - "The Workshop-to-Factory Transition in Porcelain Production at Jingdezhen, 1949-1961"
Lili Fang, Professor, China Art Institute, Beijing, and Visiting Scholar, University of Kentucky

10:30am - 15 minute break

10:45am - "The Ideology of Cultural Things: Wenwu in Shanghai During the Cultural Revolution"
Denise Ho, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Kentucky
11:25am - "Translated Architecture and the Notion of Architectural Translatebility in Modern China."
Delin Lai, Assistant Professor, Department of Fine Arts, University of Louisville

12:00pm - Lunch

1:00pm - "Tsuguharu (Leonard) Foujita's Work in Paris"
Douglas Slaymaker, Associate Professor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Kentucky
1:35pm - "French Influence on Chinese painters during the 1930s and 1940s"
Huajing Maske, Adjunct Professor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Kentucky

2:10pm - 15 minute break

2:25pm - "Between Light and Darkness: Ethnic Nationalism of Early Showa Oil Painting"
Miki Hirayama, Associate Professor, School of Art, University of Cincinnati
3:00pm - Discussant's comments
Julia Andrews, Professor of the History of Art, Ohio State University
Kuiyi Shen, Professor of Asian Art History, University of California San Diego

 Thematic Overview
The twentieth century saw tremendous change come to the countries of East Asia. At the beginning of the century, China was ruled by emperors of the 250 year-old Qing dynasty, and Japan, the most progressive Asian country at the time, was only a few decades removed from a state of international seclusion under a regime of hereditary military rulers. By the end of the end of the century, Japan had the world's second-largest GDP and China, producer of the world's largest industrial output, was ranked as a new world superpower. In between, both of these countries was decimated by war and political confrontation.
The artistic traditions of each of these countries were heavily influenced by the political, social, and economic factors that had led to such dramatic transformations. This symposium brings together both rising and established scholars focusing on diverse aspects of twentieth century art in the countries of China and Japan. Led by the keynote speaker, Professor Michael Sullivan, a noted scholar of twentieth century Chinese art, the participants will explore how the arts of East Asia developed amidst the momentous changes that took place during the tumultuous twentieth century.
The symposium "Change, Continuity and Conflict in Twentieth Century Asian Art" will be the principal academic component of the ArtsAsia Festival, the University of Kentucky's first major celebration of the fine arts in Asia. It is anticipated that the symposium will attract wide attention from scholars and students in Asian studies across the region and beyond.

Organizer and Moderator
Andrew L. Maske, Assistant Professor of Art History, Department of Art, University of Kentucky

Keynote Lecturer
Michael Sullivan, Fellow Emeritus of St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, author of The Arts of China, Art and Artists of Twentieth Century China, Modern Chinese Artists: A Biographical Dictionary, The Meeting of Eastern and Western Art, and many others.