05.12.2024Women Artists in Twentieth-Century China: A Prehistory of the Contemporary

Zurich Lectures in East Asian Art History

December 11, 2024 18:15–19:45

ABSTRACT

This lecture will reflect on two intersecting themes: the rise of women as artists and as subjects for art, in the context of the evolving status of women in twentieth- century China. Against the backdrop of the nascent modern education for women and the emergence of feminism between 1910 and 1940, the presentation interrogates, in light of contemporary art world patterns and current definitions of feminism, the slowing and even regression in recognition of women as artists in the second half of the twentieth century.

Julia F. Andrews is Academy Professor and Distinguished University Professor Emerita at Ohio State University. Her first book, Painters and Politics in the Peoples Republic of China, 1949 –1976, received the 1996 Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) for modern China. Since then, she has won numerous awards for her scholarship. Her latest publication is the co-edited volume Art and Modernism in Socialist China: Unexplored International Encounters, 1949- 1979, with Shuyu Kong and Shengtian Zheng (Routledge, 2024) and served as the 15th Heinz Goetze Professor at the University of Heidelberg in 2024. She was trained at Berkeley and began her career at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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