Please join us in hearing from art historian Dr. Wen-shing Chou on Wednesday, March 19th, at 4:30 PM in the UMFA Dumke Auditorium.
"Lecture: Reborn in Beijing: The Indo-Tibetan Genealogy of a Qing Emperor"
Wen-shing Chou specializes in art of China and Inner Asia. Her award-winning book Mount Wutai: Visions of a Sacred Buddhist Mountain (Princeton University Press, 2018) explores the Tibetan Buddhist transformation of China’s preeminent pilgrimage mountain during the Qing dynasty. Working with M.A. students at Hunter College, Chou recently co-curated and co-edited C.C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction (Hirmer Verlag, 2023) on the artistic experimentations of twentieth century’s preeminent connoisseur and collector of Chinese art. C.C. Wang was awarded Honorable Mention for the Bei Shan Tang Catalogue Prize. Chou is a member of the advisory council at the Rubin Museum of Art, where she also served as an advisory member of Project Himalayan Art and contributed to the newly published Himalayan Art in 108 Objects. Chou received her BA in Art History from the University of Chicago, and a MA and PhD in History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley.
Wen Shing Chou
The talk and visit are made possible through the generous support of the Carmen Morton Christensen Endowment, the Department of Art & Art History, and the College of Fine Arts.
Parking information can be found by visiting the UMFA website.
Image Caption: Bhāviveka. Late 18th century. Thangka, color on cloth. 135.3 x 84.5 cm. Philadelphia Museum of Art.
