On the Move - Artists, Ideas, Objects - Dr Lianming Wang

Cambridge History of Art Graduate Seminar Series, Lent term 2022.

Dr Lianming Wang, Visiting Professor in Global Art History, University of Cambridge: 'Transoceanic Trade Repictured: Coromandel Lacquer Screen and the Mobile Image in Global Exchange'

Lianming Wang specializes in Global Art History with a particular interest in the Sino-European encounter of arts and culture in early modernity and artistic practices. Currently, he is visiting the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – MPI with a project on “Transgressive Animals, Territorial Locality, and Qing Global Histories”. Prior to that, Wang taught East Asian Art History at the University of Würzburg and the University of Heidelberg, and was an Art Histories Fellow in the Research Group “Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices,” at the Berlin-based Transregional Studies Forum. He is the author of Jesuitenerbe in Peking. Sakralbauten und transkulturelle Räume, 1600–1800 (Winter Verlag, 2020) and the co-editor (with Sarah E. Fraser and Mio Wakita) of Women and Cross-Media: East Asian Photography, Prints, and Porcelain from the Dresden State Art Collection (Heidelberg University Library, arthistoricum.net, 2022).

'On the Move: Artists, Ideas, Objects' explores the topic of transnationalism and cross-culturalism in the field of History of Art. The seminar series brings together speakers working across a range of different time periods, materials, and geographies, inviting an exploration of themes such as migration, networks of artist exchange, colonialism, trade and indigeneity.

The series will run for seven weeks and will be held in-person in the Department of History of Art, with the exception of two talks (2nd February and 16th February) which will be held on Zoom. The in-person events will be followed by a drinks reception.

The schedule will be as follows:

2nd February: Dr Lianming Wang, Visiting Professor in Global Art History, University of Cambridge, ‘Transoceanic Trade Repictured: Coromandel Lacquer Screen and the Mobile Image in Global Exchange’ (via zoom)

9th February: Dr Susan Foister, The National Gallery, ‘Exhibiting Travel: Dürer and his Journeys of a Lifetime’

16th February: Dr Bart Pushaw, University of Copenhagen, ‘Indulgent Images: Inuit Artists and Colonial Consumption in the Global Arctic’ (via zoom)

23rd February: Professor Bénédicte Savoy, title to be confirmed

2nd March: Dr Scott Nethersole, Courtauld Institute of Art, ‘Fra Angelico’s The Miracle of the Black Leg: Skin Colour and the Perception of Ethiopians in Florence before 1450’

9th March: Artist Talk: Sutapa Biswas ‘The Politics of Aesthetics: Painting with Light’, followed by a Q&A with Elizabeth Brown of Kettle’s Yard.

16th March: Dr Tessa Murdoch, Former Rosalinde and Albert Gilbert Curator, Victoria & Albert Museum, ‘A Springboard to the New World, the Huguenot Diaspora and the impact of Huguenot Material Culture in the Americas 1680-1830’

This series is convened by Aisha Bornø (almb3@cam.ac.uk), Sophie Rhodes (sr872@cam.ac.uk) and Lea Viehweger (liv22@cam.ac.uk)