IMAGES
Databases & Print reproductions
Please note: a few of the databases below are not yet functional for entirely unanticipated reasons, mostly having to do with gaps in technology. Hopefully some of these technological problems will be resolved in the short term and the databases accessible to you by the third week of September. In the meantime, as you work on your portfolios and cast about for a research image and topic, I encourage you to explore the links to a very large number of digital image databases listed on the Course Resources page and to also browse the books on main reserve (the three-volume publication of the Ellsworth collection is worth a leisurely look in any case). Enjoy!
Research Project: Act One
ARTStor
500,000 images, mainly European and North American.
Craig Clunas, Art in China
This survey book, on reserve, can be used in conjunction with this digital database to search for images dating from neolithic China through today.
Conference PDFs:
01-August 28
02-August 30
03-September 4 no images for this conference meeting unless you bring in your own (which I encourage you to do)
04-September 6
05-September 11 (this PDF includes images of late 19th-century Shanghai gardens; for a set of images of gardens in early 19th-century Yangzhou as comparison, click here)
06-September 13
07-September 18 (for a selection of images by artists Yu-chih Lai mentions in her article as representative of "haipai" style, and a comparison with the "jingpai" style of Beijing artists, click here)
08-September 20
09-September 25
10-September 28
11-October 9 (select pictures from the Dianshizhai Pictorial to discuss in conference)
12-October 11
13-October 23
14-October 25
15-October 30
16-November 1
17-November 6
18-November 8
19 November 27
Individual artist galleries
- Chang Dai-chien (pinyin: Zhang Daqian) see book by Shen Fu on main reserve
- Lin Fengmian (for a recent 2007 exhibition of his work at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, click here)
- Ren Bonian (style name: Ren Yi) (for a selection of his work that was included in the 1998 "5000 Years of Chinese Art" Guggenheim show, click here)
- Xu Beihong (see also the 1998 Guggenheim show)
Prints and Photographs
Shanghai architecture gallery
Shanghai Modern, 1919-1945 (Villa Stück catalog) (under construction; catalog available on main reserve)
Wen Fong, ed., Between Two Cultures (the Ellsworth Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) (under construction; book available on main reserve)
Course resources
Click here for an extensive list of electronic resources and PDF files on citations, digital image databases and archives, the Chinese language, museum collections, time chart of periods and dynasties.
Click here for a bibliography of books related to the course (also linked as further reading).
Lisa's office hours are on Monday from noon to 4:00 and by appointment.
Office location: Library 321.
Telephone: x7364
Email: claypool@reed.edu