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Amy McNair
Professor
Chinese Art










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Amy McNair

COURSES OFFERED
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Introduction to Asian Art; Art & Culture of China; Early Chinese Art; Medieval Chinese Art; Chinese Sculpture; Chinese Calligraphy; Chinese Painting; Classical Chinese Art Texts

Graduate Seminars in Chinese art (topics vary, e.g. Chinese Sculpture: Longmen Cave-shrines; Literary Themes in Chinese Art; History of Calligraphy; Mortuary Art in Early China; Art of the Tang Dynasty; Art of Northern & Southern Dynasties; Early Chinese Theories of Art; Politics and Patronage in Chinese)
Education
1989 Ph.D. in Art History, University of Chicago
1982 M.A. in Art History, University of Washington
1978 B.A. in Art History, University of Oregon
 
Professional Experience
2008- University of Kansas, Professor
1998-2008 University of Kansas, Associate Professor
1992-98 University of Kansas, Assistant Professor
1991 University of Southern California, Lecturer
 
Honors
2006-07

National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship.  Topic:  “Lives of the Imperial Painters: Chinese Biographies in Translation,” a translation of the 12th-century Catalogue of the Imperial Painting Collection in the Proclaiming Harmony Era.

 
Selected Publications

Donors of Longmen: Faith, Politics, and Patronage in Medieval Chinese Buddhist Sculpture.  Honolulu:  University of Hawai’i Press, 2007.

“The Relief Sculptures in the Binyang Central Grotto at Longmen and the ‘Problem’ of Pictorial Stones,” in Between Han and Tang: Visual and Material Culture in a Transformative Period, ed. Wu Hung, Beijing: Wenwu Press, 2003, pp. 157-89.

“Buddhist Literati and Literary Monks:  Social and Religious Elements in the Critical Reception of Zhang Jizhi’s Calligraphy,” in Cultural Intersections in Later Chinese Buddhism, ed. Marsha Weidner, Honolulu:  University of Hawai’i Press, 2001, pp. 73-86.

"On the Tang-dynasty Patronage of Nuns at the Wanfo Grotto, Longmen," Artibus Asiae LIX, 3/4 (2000):161- 188.

The Upright Brush

The Upright Brush: Yan Zhenqing's Calligraphy and Song Literati Politics. Honolulu, University of Hawai'i Press, 1998.


 


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