Speakers:

Mariachiara Gasparini, University of Oregon

David Pritzker, Pritzker Art Collaborative

 

Discussant:

Yoonah Hwang, University of Southern California

 

This workshop aims to reevaluate the role of the Tibetan Empire (also known as Tubo) in the transmission of visual and religious cultures across the Himalayas, Central Asia, and China. Focusing on art as a vehicle of cultural exchange, the speakers will examine a range of artistic media such as painting, metalwork, and textile that developed with great sophistication and prevalence between the 7th and 10th centuries, while considering how specific religious concepts and practices were represented and disseminated through material culture across multiple regions. The workshop will also explore both human (political, military, social, economic) and non-human (climatic and the environmental) factors in the development of artistic materials and production methods that took place amid the power struggles between the Tibetans, Iranians, Turks, Arabs, and the Chinese in Medieval Asia.

 

This workshop is part of the Art, Religion, History Collaborative Group sponsored by the USC Office of Research Initiatives and Facilities. It is co-organized by the Department of Art History and East Asian Studies Center in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.

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