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SUMMARY:Beauty & Happiness: Chinese perspectives - Professor Jason Kuo\, U
 niversity of Maryland
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:Biography\n\nJason C. Kuo is Professor of Art History and Arch
 aeology at the University of Maryland\, College Park. He studied connoisse
 urship at the National Palace Museum and later received his Ph.D. from the
  University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, and has taught at Williams College a
 nd Yale University. His books and exhibition catalogs include Wang Yüan-c
 h'i's Art of Landscape Painting (Taipei: National Palace Museum\, 1981)\; 
 Trapping Heaven and Earth in the Cage of Form (Taipei: Shih-pao wen-hua Pu
 blishing\, 1986)\; Innovation within Tradition: The Painting of Huang Pin-
 hung (Williamstown: Williams College Museum of Art\, 1989)\; The Austere L
 andscape: The Paintings of Hung-jen (Taipei and New York: SMC Publishing i
 n cooperation with University of Washington Press\, 1991)\; Word as Image:
  The Art of Chinese Seal Engraving (New York: China Institute in America\;
  distributed by University of Washington Press\, 1992)\; Chen Chikwan (Tai
 pei: Chin-hsiu Publishing\, 1995)\; Rethinking Art History and Art Critici
 sm (Taipei: National Museum of History\, 1996)\; Practicing Art History an
 d Art Criticism (Taipei: National Museum of History\, 2002)\; and Transfor
 ming Traditions in Modern Chinese Painting: Huang Pin-hung's Late Work (Be
 rn and New York: Peter Lang\, 2004)\, and Chinese Ink Painting Now (New Yo
 rk: Distributed Art Publishers\, 2010). He is the editor of several books 
 and exhibition catalogs\, including Sense of Beauty and Creation of Form (
 Taipei: Lien-ching Publishing\, 1982)\; The Paintings of Lo Ch'ing (Taipei
 : Tung-ta Publishing\, 1990)\; Contemporary Essays on Painting in Taiwan\,
  1945-1990 (Taipei: Hsiung-shih Publishing\, 1991)\; Heirs to a Great Trad
 ition: Modern Chinese Painting from the Tsien-hsiang-chai Collection (dist
 ributed by University of Washington Press\, 1993)\; The Helen D. Ling Coll
 ection of Chinese Ceramics (distributed by University of Washington Press\
 , 1995)\; Visual Culture in Taiwan\, 1975-1995 (Taipie: I-shu-chia Publish
 ing\, 1995)\; Discovering Chinese Painting: Dialogues with Art Historians 
 (Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt\, 2006)\; Visual Culture in Shanghai\, 1850s–1930
 s (Washington\, D.C.: New Academia\, 2007)\; Perspectives on Connoisseursh
 ip of Chinese Painting (Washington\, D.C.: New Academia\, 2008)\; and Ston
 es from Other Mountains: Chinese Painting Studies in Postwar America (Wash
 ington\, D.C.: New Academia\, 2009). His writings have appeared in numerou
 s journals\, including Art Journal\, Asian Culture Quarterly \, Chinese Cu
 lture Quarterly\, Chinese Studies\, Bulletin of the National Palace Museum
 \, Orientations\, China Quarterly\, Journal of Asian Studies\, Journal of 
 Asian and African Studies\, and Ars Orientalis . He has received an Andrew
  W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship\, a grant from the National Endowment for
  the Humanities\, two Stoddard Fellowships in Asian Art at the Detroit Ins
 titute of Arts\, two fellowships from the J. D. Rockefeller III Fund\, and
  many other scholastic honors. In 1991–1992\, he received the Lilly Fell
 owship for teaching excellence at the University of Maryland. In 1992–19
 93 he organized and directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Summe
 r Institute for College Teachers on “The Art of Imperial China.” From 
 1993 to 1998\, he undertook the study of the nineteenth- and twentieth-cen
 tury art of Shanghai\, a research project funded by the Henry Luce Foundat
 ion that combined the work of six scholars from China and six from the Uni
 ted State. He directed the Summer Institute of Connoisseurship in Chinese 
 Calligraphy and Painting from 2001 to 2003\, also funded by the Luce Found
 ation. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Taipei in 2001–2002.\n\nAbstract\n\
 nMy lecture explores the intersection between the Chinese sense of beauty 
 and Chinese spiritual and cultural ideals.  It will focus on Taoist\, Conf
 ucian\, and Buddhist ideas about happiness and how those ideas might be re
 lated to an understanding of Chinese art. More specifically\, it will disc
 uss the theory and practice of spontaneity in the pursuit of happiness and
  beauty in Chinese culture. It will also examine the possibilities for a c
 ross-cultural understanding of beauty and happiness.
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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