2016-17 Visual Culture Seminar

Edifying the Grotesque: The (Not So) Serious
Negotiation of Architecture in Chinese Visual Culture

Dr Angela Becher, University of Manchester

1st November 2026, 17:00

The Voices of the Collective: Aesthetic Education
and Art Criticism in Maoist China

Professor Christine Ho, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

8th November 2016, 17:00

Special Event on Visual Culture in Maoist China

Professor Jie Li, Harvard University

6th December 2016, 17:00

• From Propaganda to Testimony: Photography of the
  Great Leap Forward and Famine

7th December 2016, 17:00

• Rural Film Projectionists: Maoist Cinema as a
  Material and Spirit Medium

Art, Science, Syncretism: The Making of Modern
Chinese Painting in Early Twentieth-Century

Dr Tian S. Liang, University of Oxford

31st January 2017, 17:00

A Box in the Theatre of the World: Photography and
Privacy in China after 2008

Dr Wenny Teo, Courtauld Institute

28th February 2017, 17:00

Moving Figures: The Films of Jia Zhangke

Dr Corey Schultz, University of Southhampton

25th April 2017, 17:00

Modelling Marx: Technologies of Engagement and
Automation in Contemporary Art

Dr Ros Holmes, University of Oxford

16th May 2017, 17:00

The Aesthetics of Technological Excess in
Contemporary Chinese Performance

Professor Tarryn Li-Min Chun, University of Michigan

6th June 2017, 17:00