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The Workshop is part of the newly established Richard-Wilhelm-Sinology-Lectures.
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We know that textual inscriptions are ubiquitous on traditional Chinese paintings. This workshop will consider the contributions that such inscriptions added by the artist himself make to the experience of the paintings. A range of relationships between painted image and inscribed text will be examined. Poetic inscriptions are particularly common, and several of the ways that poetic lines alter the viewer’s understanding of the painting will be examined.
Of special interest is the inscription onto a painting of poetic lines written centuries earlier. Artists of Ming-Qing times were fond of inscribing their paintings with lines form Tang dynasty poetry. This aspect of the artists’ creativity has seldom been fully appreciated, and will be closely examined.
Ronald Egan is Confucius Institute Professor of Sinology at Stanford University, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.
His research areas include traditional Chinese poetry, aesthetics, literary culture, social history, storytelling, and the relations between the literary and visual arts. Current project include a study of Hong Mai’s *Yijian zhi* (12th c.), a translation of the complete poetry and prose of Li Qingzhao, and inscriptions of Tang poetry on paintings of the Ming-Qing period.
Admission free
After the lecture we invite to small reception.
Registrations welcome: 069-79823296, info@konfuzius-institut-frankfurt.de
Richard-Wilhelm-Sinology-Lectures
In order to commemorate the outstanding scholar and translator of the Chinese classics, who founded the Sinology in Frankfurt/Main in 1924, the faculty of Sinology at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt launches the annual Richard-Wilhelm-Lecture Series. During the summer season leading scholars of Sinology will be invited to give a series of lectures and workshops covering a broad range to topics ranging from literature, history, philosophy, art or religion. In 2017 the first Wilhelm-Scholar will be Ronald Egan.
For further information on other events please follow the link .
The lecture series is sponsored by Vereinigung von Freunden und Förderern der Goethe Universität, Qingdao Huatong Investment Group and Shinework Media
