Roberta WueAssistant Professor, Art History |
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Research Abstract |
I specialize in the art and visual culture of late Qing and twentieth-century China. I am particularly interested in issues of the modern Chinese artist's identity, and how that identity is negotiated via the image and other avenues with the artist's viewers and audience. For that reason, I have been quite interested in the reproduced image and mass media, particularly in the forms of photography, the illustrated book and print culture in general. I am currently working on a book manuscript on artist and audience in later nineteenth-century Shanghai. | |
| Publications | "Selling the Artist: Advertising, Art and Audience in Later Nineteenth Century Shanghai," Art Bulletin, XCI/4 (December 2009), 464-481. | |
| "Shanghai School of Painting" entry in David Pong et al., eds., Encyclopedia of Modern China (Detroit, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2009), 382-384. | ||
| “Deliberate Looks: Ren Bonian’s 1888 Album of Women,” in Jason Kuo, ed., Visual Culture in Shanghai 1850-1930 (Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2007), 55-77. | ||
| “Essentially Chinese: The Chinese Portrait Subject in Nineteenth-Century Photography,” in Wu Hung and Katherine R. Tsiang, eds., Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center, 2005), 257-280. | ||
| “The Profits of Philanthropy: Relief Aid, Shenbao, and the Art World in Later Nineteenth-Century Shanghai,” Late Imperial China, XXV/1 (June 2004): 187-211. | ||
| “Transmitting Poetry: Ren Bonian’s Portrait of Chen Honggao and Chen Huijuan,” in Haipai huihua yanjiu wenji [Studies on Shanghai School Painting] (Shanghai: Shanghai shuhua chubanshe, 2001), 1102-35. | ||
| With Joanna Waley-Cohen and Edwin K. Lai, Picturing Hong Kong: Photography 1855-1910 (New York: Asia Society Galleries and George Braziller, 1997). | ||
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Professional Societies |
College Art Association Association of Asian Studies Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art |
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| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=5567 | |
| Last updated | 09/11/2009 | |