University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong
90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Event information
- Type
- Lecture
- Duration
- 18.12.2018 18:30 - 19:30
[TALK] PRINT CULTURE IN PRE-MODERN CHINA AND ITS CONTEMPORARY LEGACY
Date: Tuesday, 18 December 2018
Time: 18:30 – 19:30
Venue: Fang Zhaoling Gallery, 1/F T.T. Tsui Gallery, University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong, 90 Bonham Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Language: English
Cost: Free admission. All are welcome. No registration required.
The development of printing is one of China’s great and lasting contributions to the world. Emerging as a fully developed technology during the Tang (618-907) dynasty in conjunction with Buddhism, printing soon grew into a huge industry. By the Song dynasty (960-1279) huge print projects were commissioned by the imperial court, reproducing literary classics and canonical Buddhist and Daoist texts. The Song also marked significant aesthetic achievements in the development of printing with private publishers producing elaborately illustrated books. By the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) collectors built up huge libraries of fine printed volumes, and the technology of multi-coloured printing reached extraordinary heights of technical and artistic sophistication. This lecture will explore the rich history of woodblock printing and the unique features of print and book culture in China, as well as the nature of its continuing legacy in the contemporary artistic practice of twenty-first century China.
Speaker:
Dr. Kevin McLoughlin is an independent scholar currently co-editing a volume on Chinese print culture - on the subject of eighteenth century Suzhou prints - due to be published by Brill in 2019. He has previously served as Interim Curator of Asian Art at the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art in 2017; and as Lecturer in the Arts of China postgraduate course at Christie’s Education London. He also previously served as Principal Curator for East & Central Asia at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh between 2009 and 2015, having joined the Museum in 2009 as Senior Curator of the Chinese and Korean Collections. Prior to this, he held positions as Deputy Curator of University Museums at Durham University; as assistant curator of the Barlow Collection at the University of Sussex; and before that as East Asian Collections research assistant at the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin.
He holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Sussex, an MA in Chinese Art & Archaeology from the University of Durham, and a BA in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. He also studied at Beijing Language and Culture University.
Image: White Demon (detail), Ying Jinfei, 2016, Colour Water Print, 45 x 400 cm
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