Episode 112: Chinese Art and Art History with Dr. Tan and Ashley Yang Liu!
Description
We are traveling to China to take a look at Chinese Art and Art History. We will be talking to Ashley Yang Liu from Yang Travel Art. Ashley will be teaching at a Schlow Labs event on April 24th, 2021. We hope to see you there!
We begin the show talking Chinese Art History with Dr. Tan from Penn State University. Some of the recommendations from Dr. Tan are the works of Peter Hessler, and Xu Bing.
Our poetry nightcap is from Felix Jung, used under the CC BY-NC 3.0 license.
We'd like to draw your attention to the sustainability work going on at the Centre Region CoG. You can do the following here.
- Take local government’s Sustainability Survey by April 30 th for a chance to win a $100 gift card or other prizes.
- Attend the virtual open public forum on Addressing Climate Impacts in the Centre Region on Tuesday, April 13 from 6:30 – 8:30 PM.
For further discussion in Comparative Art History
Compare and contrast the sense of place and belonging depicted in Yang Yongliang's View of Tide (2008), with Chairman Mao And Officials With Children (1983), and that of a western example in Thomas Blink's Unity (1800's; The dogs pictured are an English Setter, an Irish Setter, and the Gordon Setter, a breed from Scotland).