Hello colleagues,
The Freer and Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. is hosting a symposium on Art and Material Culture of the Northern Qi Period, featuring our current exhibition - Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan. It is open to the public and registration is required. Please see the following announcement for more information. You may view the announcement at http://conta.cc/lttmwt if the message is not showing properly. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions. Thank you.
Best regards,
Vennesa Yung
Vennesa Chi Wei Yung
Public Affairs and Marketing
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Smithsonian Institution
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Symposium: Art and Material Culture
of the Northern Qi Period
Featuring the exhibition
Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan.
Freer Gallery of Art, Meyer Auditorium
Friday-Sunday, June 3-5, 2011
The brief Northern Qi dynasty witnessed tremendous change in Chinese art and material culture. In fact, many researchers have described it as one of the most pivotal periods in all of Chinese history, forming the roots of the cosmopolitan culture that matured during the later Sui (581-618) and Tang (618-907) dynasties.
Inspired by the Sackler's presentation of Echoes of the Past: The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtangshan<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=kgqeopbab&et=1105684396131&s=0&e=001a6w-b69Vaw-I5oR3tKvhiUb40a-5ao58WCv6B1KKzsIwnuJiH2UDlU29LAf9UDkCTzL356lsoO03KcHKd7qvWc4lkuJNrmLsQl8rhttRrJO5vMZ6mppMud2M376yoi27-RjaV57eX4FHdmaXgZ-KnuwDFQVznwYu>, this symposium investigates artifacts from the Northern Qi period (550 -77), the intellectual and ethnic contexts of their production, and current efforts to preserve and analyze this material. It begins with a keynote address by Professor Wu Hung of the University of Chicago that frames key issues associated with the era. Other leading specialists will present new findings concerning Buddhist and mortuary remains. On the final day, a survey of existing scholarship by the preeminent scholar Al Dien precedes a roundtable discussion to identify topics for future research on the Northern Qi. Review the symposium schedule <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=kgqeopbab&et=1105684396131&s=0&e=001a6w-b69Vaw-I5oR3tKvhiUb40a-5ao58WCv6B1KKzsIwnuJiH2UDlU29LAf9UDkCTzL356lsoO03KcHKd7qvWc4lkuJNrmLs0e0LqaL8Dyx9F4-p5lUOJdKcpKjJzppv76mcKEjlGW8=> here.
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Image Credit: Standing Bodhisattva, Freer Gallery of Art, Gift of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer, F1968.45
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