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Robert E. Harrist, Jr. is an American historian of Chinese art Jane and Leopold Swergold Professor of Chinese Art History at Columbia University. He has published books and articles on Chinese painting, calligraphy, and gardens, as well as on topics such as replicas in Chinese art, clothing in 20th-century China, and contemporary artists such as Xu Bing. His 2008 book, The Landscape of Words, which studies the role of language in shaping perceptions of the natural world, was awarded the Joseph Levenson Prize in 2010.
Education and career
[edit]Columbia University, M.A. in East Asian Studies; 1980 Indiana University, M.A. in Art History, 1978; B. S. in Music and Art History, 1975. Associate Professor 1997-2001. Department chairman, 2007-2011 Associate Professor of Art and East Asian Studies, Oberlin College, 1987-1997
Chinese Art Ph.D., Princeton University, 1989
Scholarly publications and impact
[edit]Recent Publications
[edit]- The Landscape of Words, University of Washington Press, 2008
- The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection, Art Museum at Princeton University, 1999
- Painting and Private Life in Eleventh-Century China: Mountain Villa by Li Gonglin, Princeton University Press, 1998
- Power and Virtue: The Horse in Chinese Art, Art Media Resources Ltd., 1997
References
[edit]- Art and Archeology, Department of (2015), Robert Harrist, Jr. (PDF)
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