Lecture: Is There a Chinese Equivalent of Ukiyo-e? – Urban Studio Paintings in Late Imperial China

March 3, 1999

Lecture: Is There a Chinese Equivalent of Ukiyo-e? – Urban Studio Paintings in Late Imperial China
Prof. James Cahill (Professor Emeritus, U.C. Berkeley, Visiting Professor, Princeton University)
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. & Amsterdam Ave.)
6:00 – 7:30 PM

James Cahill, a specialist in Chinese and Japanese painting, is one of America’s most distinguished art historians. From 1965 until his retirement in 1994, he was professor of art history at the University of California, Berkeley. He currently teaches at Princeton University.  Prof. Cahill is the author of many books on Chinese painting, a great number of which have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, as well as several European languages.  His 1979 Norton Lectures at Harvard were published in 1982 as The Compelling Image: Nature and Style in 17th-Century Chinese Painting, a work which was awarded the College Art Association’s Morey Prize as the best art history book of the year.

This lecture is sponsored by the Ukiyo-e Society of America and cosponsored by the Donald Keene Center and the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University