China’s popular magazines of the 1920s and 1930s abound with artists’ biographies. Within these brief biographic portrayals the combination of traditional and imported stereotypes formulated a new concept of the artist as creative genius and social reformer. Professor Wright’s talk will examine artists’ biographies in Republican-period periodicals and evaluate how artists used their public personas to perform newly defined occupational roles. Her investigation pays particular attention to the differing professional standards set for men and women, and the ways in which female artists presented themselves through a process of ‘self-mediatization.’
Amanda S. Wright is Assistant Professor of East Asian art history at the University of South Carolina. A Postdoctoral Fellow at the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University during the year 2014/15, Professor Wright is currently working on a book about Republican-period women artists.
Presented by the UO Confucius Institute for Global China Studies and cosponsored by the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and the Department of the History of Art and Architecture.
