Sally Michelson Davidson Professor of Chinese Arts and Cultures & Assistant Professor of History of Art
About
Lihong Liu’s research focuses on time, matter, space, and motion in art, especially with regard to art's environmental engagement. Her recent research projects include the development of an ecological approach to art history, the transcultural study of a material medium, and studies of the art of simulation and automation.
Liu is currently completing a book on the structure of time and place in Chinese paintings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. A second project explores the entanglement between garden construction and landscape painting during the Yuan-Ming transition in the fourteenth century, showing how it undergirds the historiography of Chinese art. A third project focuses on the global transmission of colorless glass, following its invention in fifteenth-century Europe, in relation to the drastic uncertainty of form governed by matter’s processes of transformation.
Liu’s publications have appeared in Art Bulletin, Art History, RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, Journal of Early Modern History, Getty Research Journal, Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture, Journal 18: A Journal of Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture, Journal of Asian Studies, caareviews, in addition to edited volumes in both English and Chinese.
Liu is a member of the advisory board of the journal 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual – Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte und visuellen Kultur (Bern, Switzerland) and has served the editorial board of the Journal of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Studies – Zhongguo shuhua yanjiu (Hangzhou, China).
Affiliation:
Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies
Awards:
- Early Career Fellowship, American Council of Learned Society/Henry Luce Foundation
- Fellowship, Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard)
- Visiting Scholar (Stipendium), Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut
- A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, CASVA, National Gallery of Art
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, Getty Research Institute
- Fellowship, Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies (Kyoto)
- Erwin Panofsky Fellowship, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Fields of Study:
- Chinese Art and Archaeology
- Painting and Calligraphy
- Landscape and Garden Studies
- Buddhist Art
- The Silk Routes
- Visual and Material Culture
- Transcultural Studies
- Art, Science, and Technology
- Critical Posthumanist Theories
