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Arts of Asia Lecture Series Fall 2016 Women, Real and Imagined, In Asian Art Sponsored by The Society for Asian Art The Way of Water – Female Agency & Art Making in China Hui-shu Lee, UCLA February 10, 2017 Key notions: Female Agency - Women as patrons, tastemakers, interpreters - Arbiter/mediator: patron, collector, collaborator, creator - Uncovering the subversive power of women – case of China The Way of Water & Behind the Screen Outline: Promoting Palindromes: Su Hui (4th C.) & Empress Wu [Wu Zetian (r. 690-705)] Empress Liu (969-1033) and Sage Mother Worship Imperial Women and the Art of Writing Empress Wu (1115-1197) and the Aesthetics of Worthiness Didactic Art Empress Yang (1162/1172-1233) and the Art of Expression Major Art Works: Funerary objects from the Royal Consort Fuhao of the Shang, Anyang, c. 1200 BCE Empress Dowager Wenmin (442-90) & the twin-caves at Yungang, c. 480 Empress Ling (d. 528) and the grandest Yoning Temple of imperial capital, 517 Empress’ Procession, Bingyang Central Cave, Longmen, c. 520 Empress Wu Zetian & the Vairocana Buddha at Fengxian Temple, Longmen, c. 675 Su Hui’s Huiwen palindrome Empress Liu (969-1033), Sage Mother Hall & Sculpture Program at Jin Shrine, c 1020’s Official Portrait of Empress Cao (1016-79), collector of Li Cheng landscape Empress Wu of Gaozong (r. 1127-62) as calligrapher, the emperor’s lady ghostwriter, art collector, & patron of didactic art Ma Yuan (ca. 1190-1230), Apricot Blossoms, with Empress Yang poetic inscription reads: Receiving the wind, she presents her unsurpassing beauty; Moistened with dew, she reveals her red charms. Ma Yuan, Attending the Banquet by Lantern Light, National Palace Museum, Taipei Ma Yuan, Twelve Scenes of Water, Palace Museum, Beijing; Readings: Allen, Sarah, The Way of Water and Sprouts of Virtue (Albany: State University of New York, 1997). Hui-shu Lee, “The Emperor’s Lady Ghostwriters in Song-dynasty China,” Artibus Asiae, XIV, 1 (2004), 61-101. _____, Empresses, Art, & Agency in Song Dynasty China. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2010. .

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