Past Events
“Archaeology, Artifacts and Art” 2024-25 Lecture Series: Professor Lothar von Falkenhausen (2025/1/6)
Sponsored by Simon Suen Foundation, the “Archaeology, Artifacts and Art” 2024 Lecture Series will be held from November 2024 to August 2025. The Academy will curate a series of lectures on archaeology, history, artifacts and art in collaboration with experts and scholars locally and abroad, including esteemed researchers art collectors as well as connoisseurs. With the splendor of the pantheon, we endeavor to embark on a journey of discovery with international academics and students from different backgrounds. The Academy is honoured to invite Professor Lothar von Falkenhausen to speak with the below details:
The Monumentalization of Chinese Writing and the Rise of the Art of Calligraphy
2025/1/6 | 16:00–17:30 | Conducted in English
Professor Lothar von Falkenhausen
Distinguished Professor of Chinese Archaeology and Art History
University of California, Los Angeles
During the final centuries of the pre-Imperial era, not only the physical appearance of writing, but also the range of its usage and its modes of display changed fundamentally. As observable through archaeological finds, this led to an increase in the variation in the physical size of written graphs after the middle of the first millennium BC. Linked to the thoroughgoing socio-economic transformation of that time, the monumentalization of writing was an important factor in the rise of calligraphy as an autonomous art form during the first millennium AD.
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