Ling Yang, "Traditional Chinese and the Environment," in Demystifying China: New Understandings of Chinese History, ed. Naomi Standen (New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012), 81-87 (eBook)
A.C.
Graham, Yin-Yang and the Nature of Correlative Thinking. IEAP Occasional Paper and Monograph Series, No. 6 (Singapore: Institute of East Asian Philosophies, 1986), excerpt (PDF).
optional: Yi-fu Tuan, "Discrepancies between environmental attitude and behavior: Examples from China and Europe," The Canadian Geographer 12, no. 3 (September 1968): 176-191 (eJournal)
Recommended to browse: "The Geopolitics of China"
Recommended to browse: Jianguo Liu and Jared Diamond, "China's environment in a globalizing world," Nature (29 June 2005) (URL https://www.nature.com/articles/4351179a)
STUDY IMAGES
Manchu imperial 12-symbol court robe, Minneapolis Institute of Art
Emperor's Court Robe, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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MEET IN MACTAGGART STORAGE @ 2:00
Roger Caillois, The Writing of Stones, tr. Barbara Bray (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985), "The Image in the Stone," 1- 14; "Dream Stones," 37-43. (PDF)
John Hay, Kernels of Energy, Bones of Earth: The Rock in Chinese Art (New York: China House Gallery, 1985), pp. 15-24, 40-42, 50-58, 84-88. (PDF to be emailed to you)
Richard Vinograd, "The Ends of Chinese Painting," in The History of Painting in East Asia: Essays on Scholarly Method, eds. Naomi Richard, Donald Brix (Taipei: Rock Publishing, 2002), read excerpts "Ends and Endlessness," "End Lines," pp 514-516. (PDF)
François Jullien, Living Off Landscape (New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018), "Land-Landscape;" "Mountain(s)-Water(s)", pp. 1-26 (eBook)
By Sunday, September 16, at 5:00, please email Lisa with the ranked names of three of the exhibiting artists whose work you want to live with, think about, and write about during the term. I wlll do my best to assign one of them to you.
STUDY IMAGES
Huang Yong Ping 黄永砯 b. 1954
gallery website: https://gladstonegallery.com/artist/huang-yong-ping
Hong Hao 洪灝 b. 1965 Beijing
gallery website: http://www.chambersfineart.com/artists/hong-hao
Cai Guo-Qiang 蔡国强 b. 1957 Quanzhou
artist's website: https://caiguoqiang.com/projects/projects-1999/kunsthalle-wien/
NB: None of the above artists are in the ecoART CHINA exhibition.
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MEET IN MACTAGGART STORAGE @ 2:00
Nöel Carroll, "Emotion, Appreciation, and Nature,” in Beyond Aesthetics: Philosophical Essays (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press), pp. 384-392 pts. 1-3. (eBook)
STUDY IMAGES + TEXTS
"Making the World: Pictures and Science in Modern China"
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De-nin D. Lee, "Zhang Hongtu and Domesticated Landscapes in Chinese Painting," in Eco-Art History in East and Southeast Asia, ed. De-nin D. Lee (Cambridge Scholars Publisher, 2019), chapter 4 (eBook).
Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, "Natural universals and the global scale," in Ecocriticism, ed. Ken Hiltner (New York: Routledge, 2015), chapter 19, pp 211-231 (PDF)
Ecological crisis: Judith Shapiro, Mao's War against Nature (Cambridge: Cambirdge University Press, 2009), Introduction pp. 1-20 (eBook)
Optional: Rob Hengeveld, Wasted World: How Our Consumption Challenges the Planet (free eBook from the University of Chicago Press).
catalogue writing: "Making the World: Pictures and Science in Modern China" choose one entry that you like for whatever reason and post a link to the entry to our blog
STUDY IMAGES
Zhang Hongtu 张宏图 b. 1943
artist's website: http://www.momao.com
NB: Zhang Hongtu is not one of the six artists in the ecoART CHINA exhibition.
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Post exploratories to blog by 5 pm on Wednesday October 2. We will workshop each in turn during conference.
| Presentation | Discussant |
| 1 Thomas M | Kourtney |
| 2 Yoyo | Han |
| 3 Nicole | Thomas M |
| 4 Marianna | Nicole |
| 5 Kourtney | Yoyo |
| 6 Nina | Marianna |
| 7 Yuzhi | Cynthia |
| 8 Thomas W | Diana |
| 9 Han | Nina |
| 10 Diana | Yuzhi |
| 11 Cynthia | Thomas W |
Please note that beginning with this conference we will devote the first half of each session to conversation about the assigned readings (faciliated by our colleagues in the class) and the second half to explorations into curatorial writing (led by Lisa).
discussants: Li Han, Thomas Weir
Jacky Bowring, Melancholy and the Landscape: Locating Sadness, Memory, and Reflection in the Landscape (New York: Routledge, 2017), "Defning Melancholy" pp 12-17, "Aura" pp. 92-98 (eBook)
William Schaefer, Shadow Modernism: Photography, Writing, and Space in Shanghai, 1925-1937 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017), excerpt of introduction, pp. 1-18 (eBook)
Zhang Ling, The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016) Chapter 8 "Land and Water" (eBook)
Ecological crisis: Elizabeth Economy, The River Runs Black (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007), "The Death of the Huai River," pp. 1-26. (eBook) NB: THE KEY POINTS OF THIS TEXT AND OTHERS IN FUTURE ABOUT ECOLOGICAL CRISES WILL BE SUMMARIZED BY THE DISCUSSION FACILITATORS DURING CONFERENCE. Feel free to read it, but it will not be a text that is discussed in class as will the three texts listed above.
optional: Ashlee Cunsolo Willox, "Climate Change as a Work of Mourning," Ethics and the Environment 17, no. 2 (Fall 2012): 137-157 (eJournal)
optional: Corey Byrnes, Fixing Landscape:A Techno-Poetic History of China's Three Gorges (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019) (eBook)
optional: Alfreda Murck, Poetry and Painting in Song China: The Subtle Art of Dissent (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2000), "Confronting Melacholy: Evening, Night, Autumn," pp. 100-125. (PDF)
optional: Browse essays in Part 1 "Hydro-Politics: Water, River, and National Trauma" in Chinese Ecocinema In the Age of Environmental Challenge, eds. Sheldon Lu and Jiayan Mi (Hong Kong University Press, 2009) (eBook)
catalogue writing: refining visual analysis: TJ Clark's writing for The London Review of Books: "Picasso and Tragedy" 39, no. 16 (17 August 2017); "The Chill of Disillusion" 34, no. 1 (5 January 2012). We'll work through the highlighted passages during conference. (PDF)
STUDY IMAGES
Michael Cherney (b. 1969),ten thousand li of the yangtze river, photographs, hand scrolls.
artist's website: http://www.qiumai.net
discussants: Thomas Mamos, Lisa
Benoit Mandlebrot, The Fractal Geometry of Nature (San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1983), 1-9 (PDF)
François Jullien, The great image has no Form, or, On the nonobject through painting, tr. Jean-Marie Todd (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008), "Presence-Absence," 1-14 (PDF)
Jeffrey Bilbro, "Why We'd Better Start Seeing our World as Beautiful," South Atlantic Review 80, no. 1-2 (2015): 133-158 (eJournal)
Ecological crisis: Dhirendra K Vajpeyi and Alonya Ponomarenko, "Deforestation in China," in Deforestation, Environment, and Sustainable Development: A comparative analysis, ed. Dhirendra Vajpeyi (Westport, CT & London: Praeger, 2001), pp. 91-109. (PDF)
Optional: Browse essays in Part 2 "Eco-Aesthetics, Heteroscape, and Manufactured Landscape" in in Chinese Ecocinema In the Age of Environmental Challenge, eds. Sheldon Lu and Jiayan Mi (Hong Kong University Press, 2009) (eBook)
catalogue writing: the questions that objects pose of us: Stephanie Snyder, "Johan Thurfjell," ArtForum (online); Lisa Claypool, "TEMPLE: Zheng Chongbin at Kenninji" introductory paragraphs Yishu (+PDF)
STUDY IMAGES
Zheng Chongbin 郑重宾 (b. 1961 Shanghai), light & space art + ink painting
artist's website: http://zhengchongbin.com
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Workshop the first draft of catalogue copy in small groups. Remember to post to blog and email as Word document to Lisa. We will also discuss catalogue design and meet with the catalogue designer, Yiwen Zhou. Among the catalogue designs that we will consider during conference:
Kanwar, Amar. Amar Kanwar: The Sovereign Forest. Eds. Daniela Zyman, Thyssen-Bornemisza. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2014.
Reading the River: The Ecological Activist Art of Basia Irland. Sittard, ND: Museum De Domijnen, 2017.
LAND/SLIDE. Public Books, 2015.
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discussants: Mariana, Kourtney
Ezio Manzini, Design, When Everybody Designs (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2015), "Introduction," pp. 1-6 (eBook)
Hal Foster, "Arty Party," The London Review of Books 25, no. 23 (4 December 2003): 21-22 (PDF).
Claire Doherty, "Introduction," in Out of Time, Out of Place: Public Art (Now) (London: Arts Books Publishing, 2015), 11-16 (PDF)
Michael Warner, Publics and counterpublics (New York: ZONE Books, 2005), "Publics and Counterpublics," pp. 65-124 (PDF)
Ecological crisis: Air pollution in China: Real-time Air Quality Index Visual Map & Jeff Kearns, Hannah Dormido, Alyssa McDonald, "China's War on Pollution Will Change the World," Bloomberg (March 9, 2018)
optional: Pamela Lee, “How to be a Collective in the Age of the Consumer Sovereign,” Artforum (October 2009): 185–189. (eJournal)
catalogue writing: first sentences + titles
STUDY IMAGES
Wen Fang 文芳 (b. 1976 Beijing), Maskbook 空气口罩computer installation, prints, participatory activity of making masks inside or next to gallery space
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discussants: Yuzhi, Nicole
Slavoj Zizek, Examined Life: Philosophy in the Streets 11-minute video
Timothy Morton, Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007), 29-39 excerpt of chapter. (PDF)
William Schaefer, Shadow Modernism: Photography, Writing, and Space in Shanghai, 1925-1937 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017), "Montage Landscapes," chapter 4, pp 145-179 (eBook).
Ecological crisis: Joshua Goldstein, "Waste," Oxford Handbook of the History of Consumption (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), look under "Technologies and Practices" (eBook).
optional: Amanda Boetzskes, Plastic Capitalism (MIT Press, 2013).
catalogue writing: learning from catalogue writing that's not easy to understand: "New Primordial Chaos," Kaikodo (March 2015); "The civlized artist beautifies pollution: Zhao Liang's Water and Beijing Green;" catalogues in Lisa's library collection
STUDY IMAGES
Yao Lu 姚璐 (b. 1967 Beijing), photographs
gallery website: http://www.brucesilverstein.com/artists/yao-lu
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enjoy reading!
Please note: Draft #2 of catalogue copy with updated annotated bibliography of four additional sources (bringing total to eight) is due Friday, November 15 by 5 pm. Email copy to Lisa as Word document. No need to post to blog.
discussants: Cynthia & Nina on Zhao Liang; Diana & Yoyo on Bovey Lee
Gaston Bachelard, Earth and reveries of will: an essay on the imagination of matter, tr. Kenneth Haltman (Dallas: Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, 2002), Preface, Forward (p. 1- top para of p. 9), Chapter 1 (PDF)
Bandy X. Lee, "Environmental (and Nuclear) Violence," in Violence: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Causes, Consequences, and Cures (New York: Wiley & Sons, 2019), 143-160 (eBook)
Brandon Absher, "Towards a Concept of Ecological Violence: Martin Heidegger and Mountain Justice," Radical Philosophy Review 15, no. 1 (2012): 89-101 (eJournal)
Ecological crisis: Xunpeng Shi, "Can China's Coal Industry be Reconciled with the Environment?" in China's Dilemma: Economic Growth, the Environment, and Climate Change, eds. Ligang Song, Wing Thye Woo (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2008), 367-391 (eBook)
Ecological crisis: Reuters, "China boosts coal mining capacity despite climate pledges" (March 26, 2019)
Optional: "What is... Chinese paper-cut art? Art Radar explains" http://artradarjournal.com/2015/05/22/what-is-chinese-paper-cut-art-art-radar-explains/
catalogue writing: meet with Zhou Yiwen to discuss catalogue design
STUDY IMAGES
Bovey Lee. Hand cut paper, Size can vary.
artist's website: http://www.boveylee.com
Zhao Liang 赵亮 (b. 1971 Liaoning), Black Face & White Face, three channel video installation, video in colour HD 16.9 10 mins.
artist's website: http://zhaoliangstudio.com
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Presentation of draft #3 of catalogue copy in conference. Post catalogue copy to blog by 5 pm on Wednesday, November 27, and email copy to Lisa as Word document. This should be as close to the final copy as you can make it. You will have 15 minutes each to present your research and 5 minutes to answer questions.
| presentation | |
| 1. Thomas Mamos | |
| 2. Nicole | |
| 3. Diana | |
| 4. Yuzhi | |
5. Kourtney
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BEHEMOTH + pizza party follows symposium
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The final symposium is scheduled for Thursday, December 12, 2-5.
| presentation |
| 7. Han |
| 8. Yoyo |
| 9. NIna |
| 10. Mariana |
| 11. Cynthia |