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Lecture: Doris Sung, “Where Are The Women In Contemporary Chinese Art?”

Friday, March 12th, 2021 at 11:30 am to 12:30 pm

  • In-person event
Artwork: Yu Hong, Age 32 (1998) with Daughter in Tian’anmen Square.

Art & Architectural History invites you to the upcoming guest lecture Where Are the Women in Contemporary Chinese Art? by Doris Sung, Assistant Professor of Art History, The University of Alabama, which will take place next Friday, March 12, 11:30 am  – 12:30 pm (EST) on Zoom: https://carleton-ca.zoom.us/j/91758765250

Doris Sung’s addresses issues surrounding the lack of visibility of women artists, feminist, and gender-related themes in Chinese modern and contemporary art. It gives a brief overview of gender roles in socialist China and focuses on women’s art production in the national and transnational art worlds in the post-socialist era (c. 1980s to the present).

Image Credit: Yu Hong, Age 32 (1998) with Daughter in Tian’anmen Square, 2002. Oil on canvas.