Day: September 6, 2010

Summer 2010 – Prof. Patricia Karetzky During the summer I gave two talks: “Uses of the Past in Contemporary Chinese Art,” at Xiamen University Fujian in June  and “The Use of Hanzi in Contemporary Chinese Art”  at the Seventh International Conference  on Hanzi Calligraphy Education, Capital Normal University, in Beijing on June 29.  I also…

Summer 2010- Prof. Laurie Dahlberg I spent my summer on three areas of work.  First, I did some legwork on my latest project, a study of the 19th-century amateur as the driving force behind the discovery and evolution of photography.  I’m intrigued by the fact that amateurism itself has an evolution that is laid bare…