The Eric Ryan Memorial Lecture "Curatorial Strategy, Bull Marketry, and the Defining of Contemporary Chinese Art"
The Eric Ryan Memorial Lecture "Curatorial Strategy, Bull Marketry, and the Defining of Contemporary Chinese Art". Jerome Silbergeld is the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Professor in Chinese Art and Director of the Tang Center for East Asian Art at Princeton University. His teaching and publications are in the areas of traditional and contemporary Chinese painting, Chinese gardens and architecture, and Chinese cinema. Silbergeld has dealt with topics such as artistic tradition in times of political upheaval, the historically unstable identity of "China" and its impact on the writing of "Chinese art history," regional diversity in Chinese gardens, and visual communication in a culture of text censorship. He is currently organizing two exhibitions, on contemporary Chinese/ American art at Princeton University and on Chinese documentary photography for the China Institute in New York City. The lecture is part of "A Year of Chinese Art" with lectures by Xu Bing and a screening of Shijie by Zhang Ke Jia.