27 Nov 2024
The Lure of the West: Chinese Modernists and Interwar Paris
Paris, France
The École des modernités
At the Institut Giacometti
Twentieth century Chinese artists who sought to break through to a new and modern art saw Paris as the place they would find the nourishment and inspiration to accomplish this ambition. This talk will begin by examining the careers of several idealistic artists who arrived in France from Shanghai in the early 1920s and went on to establish the National West Lake Academy of Arts in Hangzhou in 1928. Among their lifelong aims was to create progressive art that could speak equally powerfully in East and West. Sixty years later, with the migration of graduates from this same academy to Paris, the post-modern moment offered a similar possibility of an art unbounded by linguistic or national borders.
Wednesday 27 November, at 6:30PM
At the Giacometti Lab and live on Youtube
Lecture in English
Julia F. Andrews is Distinguished University Professor Emerita and Academy Professor at The Ohio State University. Her work focuses on modern and contemporary Chinese art. She conceived one of the first American exhibitions of contemporary Chinese art, Fragmented Memory: The Chinese Avant-Garde in Exile (OSU's Wexner Center for the Arts 1993) and co-curated A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth Century China (Guggenheim Museum 1998).
She co-authored and co-curated with Kuiyi Shen the exhibition catalogues, Painting Her Way, The Ink Art of Fang Zhaoling (1914-2006), (Asia Society Hong Kong Center, 2017) and Light Before Dawn: Unofficial Chinese Art, 1974-1985 (ASHKC, 2013).
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