Art History Endowed Lecture: A Phantom Gift of Autumn Deer

About this event

Two hanging scrolls, perhaps from a larger group, known as "Deer in Autumn Woods" and presently in the National Palace Museum (Taipei) are recorded in the Song dynasty imperial collections from around the year 1050, but their peculiarities of style and technique have long made them stand out among Chinese painted landscapes. Do they belong in the history of Chinese landscape painting at all? Cultural explanations for their oddity have recently been proposed. Join Haun Saussy, University Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations & the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, whose research suggests that it is the scrolls' status as "boundary objects" - objects that bear different meaning for different publics- that permits a fuller understanding of these artifacts.

This program is free and open to the public.

Presented by Emory Art History, and co-sponsored by the Michael C. aCarlos Museum, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures, and the Department of Comparative Literature.

Image: detail of Herd of Deer in a Maple Grove (10th c.)