February 8 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
40 Rector Street
New York, NY 10006 United States
In conjunction with China Institute Gallery’s upcoming exhibition opening, join guest curator Jerome Silbergeld, P. Y and Kinmay W. Tang professor Chinese art history, Emeritus, for a discussion on traditional Chinese landscape aesthetics and geography and how both are incorporated into Art of the Mountain: Through the Chinese Photographer’s Lens.
Jerome Silbergeld is the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Professor of Chinese Art History at Princeton University and director of Princeton’s Tang Center for East Asian Art. Formerly, Dr. Silbergeld was a faculty member of the University of Washington, Seattle (Art History Program and China Studies Affiliate) for 25 years, and a Visiting Professor at both Harvard University and the University of Oregon. With undergraduate and advanced degrees from Stanford University, Princeton University and the University of Oregon, Dr. Silbergeld’s research has included both traditional and modern Chinese painting, cinema, architecture and gardens. He has published more than fifty books, articles and book chapters, including the Encyclopedia Britannica entry on Chinese art.