Thursday | 06:15 PM | Agency and Gendered Expression Reading Ma Yuan's Attending Banquet by Lantern Light & Composing Poetry on a Spring Outing Prof. Hui-shu Lee, UCLA, Center for Chinese Studies / Heinz Götze Visiting Professor at Heidelberg University In the monumental landscapes of the Five Dynasties Period and Northern Song (tenth to twelfth centuries), figures, regardless of scale, can act as surrogates for the painter and often posit a significant viewpoint as what has been called the eye of the painting. Building upon this insight, it will be shown that the minutely exquisite figures in Ma Yuan’s seminal "Attending Banquet by Lantern Lights" not only provide critical visual cues for decoding the content of the painting but also subvert its conventional readings. Through a close analysis of the words and images of Ma Yuan’s meticulous construct in time and space, the complexities of intertwined court politics and art-making are unveiled, and the gendered expression of female agency compellingly manifested through the vehicle of the Three Excellences: poetry, painting, and calligraphy. Address CATS – Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies, Gebäude 4010 CATS Auditorium R.010.01.05 Voßstraße 2 69115 Heidelberg Organizer Institut für Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens Homepage Organizer Contact Institut für Kunstgeschichte Ostasiens Contact URL |