Katharine Persis Burnett

 
 

Appointed 1998, Program in Art History

 

Ph.D., University of Michigan
M.A., Univeristy of Michigan
Certificate of Graduate Studies, Museum Practice, University of Michigan
B.A., Wellesley College

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Recent Courses

 

Women, Power, and the Visual Arts in (Late Imperial) China (seminar)

 

Exhibiting Seventeenth Century Values, graduate and undergradute seminars

 

Landscape and Gender in Chinese Painting, graduate and undergradute seminars

 

Socioeconomic and cultural context for 17th century aesthetic criticism (seminar)

 

Socioeconomic and cultural context for 18th century visual arts (seminar)

 

The Formation of Chinese Culture:  Collections of Chinese Art in Early Twentieth-Century America (seminar)

 

New Methodologies for Chinese Art History (proseminar)

 

Originality, Authenticity, and the Art Market in 16th- and 17th-Century China (seminar)

 

Exploration of Orientalist and Cold War Expectations of Chinese Culture (seminar)

 

Questioning Originality as a “Traditional” Chinese Value (seminar)

 

Arts of Early China:  based in Shanghai with fieldtrips to Sanxingdui, Xi’an, and Longmen, UC Davis Summer Abroad Program

 

Arts of Asia Virtual (India, China, Japan, Asian Diaspora), a hybrid online-lecture/discussion course

 

Arts of Early China (Neolithic-Tang)

 

Chinese Painting (Han Dynasty-contemporary)

 

 

 

Recent Publications

 

Articles

 

“Mixing Water and Oil:  Understanding Shimo in the Contemporary Global Art Market,” Kuiyi Shen and Feng Bin, eds.,  Reboot: The Third Chengdu Biennial, Proceedings from the International Symposium, Chengdu, Chengdu, China, 2007, pp. 74-79.

 

“Late Qing-Early Republican Period Taste and the Case of Pang Yuanji,” The Elegant Gathering:  The Yeh Family Collection symposium website, http://webcast.berkeley.edu/events/details.php?webcastid=15762, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, and University of California, Berkeley, 2006.

 

Through Masters’ Eyes:  Copying and Originality in Contemporary Chinese Landscape Painting,” Shanshui in Twentieth Century China, Shanghai: Shanghai Calligraphy and Painting Publishing House, 2006.

 

“Travel and Transformation: Wu Bin’s Enjoying Scenery along the Min River,” Oriental Art, vol. L, no. 4, (Winter 2006), pp. 2-15.

 

“Words on Word-Images:  An Aspect of Dong Qichang’s Calligraphy Criticism,” Word & Image, vol. 19, no. 4, (October-December, 2003), 327-335.

 

“Taking Arts of Asia Online,” Education About Asia, vol. 8, no. 3, (Winter 2003), 26-29. 

 

“A Discourse of Originality in Late Ming Chinese Painting Criticism,” Art History, vol. 23. no. 4 (November 2000), 522-558.

   
 

Books in preparation

 

Dimensions of Originality:  Essays in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Art

 

Pang Yuanji (1864-1949):  Artist, Patron, Collector, Dealer.

 

The Originalist Art of Wu Bin (ca. 1543-ca. 1626).

   
 

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