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When Edges Matter: Knowledge and Visuality at the Sidelines of Art

Fri, April 1, 5:15 to 7:15pm, Washington State Convention Center, Floor: 6th Floor, Room 609

Session Submission Type: Organized Panel

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In recent years, theories of visuality and materiality are central to discussions about how images and objects mediate what we see and experience. Pushing the argument further, this panel begins from the edge, an alternative vantage point, not only of the physical object in discussion, but also by of themes that are sidelined in the field of art history. Taking on interdisciplinary approaches used in the center/periphery model of structural and spatial relationships, our papers will examine both the material and metaphorical edges (and centers) by opening up a discussion on new ways of thinking about how visual experience and knowledge were formed or challenged.

Yeewan Koon considers narrative wit by exploring a group of Ming copies of famous paintings that are revised with new endings as a form of intervention of art knowledge. Nixi Cura will be investigating pictures that adorn the inside and outside of Qing curio-boxes to discuss how ornamentation operated as political authority. Wue examines the late Qing Shanghai painter Ren Bonian and his fan paintings for an inventive exploration of the painting’s center and periphery, and notions of the painting’s limits. Lisa Claypool’s work shows how Gao Jianfu used the decorative rims of plates to form new concepts of design that held political and intellectual import for modern China. Our discussant, Alexander des Forges, will shed more light on the issues at stake from his disciplinary position. To facilitate discussion, we invite responses from colleagues from different fields by circulating our papers for this panel.

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