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About the Author
Jason C. Kuo is Professor of Art History and Archaeology and Core Faculty of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has taught at the National Taiwan University, Williams College, and Yale University. He was a Fellow at the Freer Gallery, a Research Associate at the University Art Museum (University of California, Berkeley), a Stoddard Fellow at the Detroit Institute of Arts, an Associate in Research at the John Fairbank Center for East Asian Research of Harvard University, and an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
His numerous books, authored or edited, include among others: Transforming Traditions in Modern Chinese Painting: Huang Pin-hung’s Late Work (2004), Chinese Ink Painting Now (2010), The Inner Landscape: The Paintings of Gao Xingjian (2013), The Poet’s Brush: Chinese Ink Paintings by Lo Ch’ing (2016), Huang Yao: Paintings of Poetic Ideas (Shiyitu) (2019), and Modern Ink: The Art of Huang Binhong (with Britta Erickson and Claire Roberts, 2023), Contemporary Chinese Art and Film: Theory Applied and Resisted (2013), and Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Studies in Postwar America (2020). His writings have appeared in a broad spectrum of publications, including Art Journal, Asian Culture Quarterly, Chinese Culture Quarterly, Chinese Studies, Ming Studies, National Palace Museum Bulletin, National Palace Museum Research Quarterly, Orientations, China Quarterly, China Review International, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Asian and African Studies, and Ars Orientalis.
THE CHINESE ARTIST GROWS OLD: Aging and Creativity
Jason C. KuoNew Academia Publishing, 2023
428 pages
ISBN 979-8-9875893-5-9
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About the Author
Jason C. Kuo is Professor of Art History and Archaeology and Core Faculty of Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has taught at the National Taiwan University, Williams College, and Yale University. He was a Fellow at the Freer Gallery, a Research Associate at the University Art Museum (University of California, Berkeley), a Stoddard Fellow at the Detroit Institute of Arts, an Associate in Research at the John Fairbank Center for East Asian Research of Harvard University, and an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
His numerous books, authored or edited, include among others: Transforming Traditions in Modern Chinese Painting: Huang Pin-hung’s Late Work (2004), Chinese Ink Painting Now (2010), The Inner Landscape: The Paintings of Gao Xingjian (2013), The Poet’s Brush: Chinese Ink Paintings by Lo Ch’ing (2016), Huang Yao: Paintings of Poetic Ideas (Shiyitu) (2019), and Modern Ink: The Art of Huang Binhong (with Britta Erickson and Claire Roberts, 2023), Contemporary Chinese Art and Film: Theory Applied and Resisted (2013), and Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Studies in Postwar America (2020). His writings have appeared in a broad spectrum of publications, including Art Journal, Asian Culture Quarterly, Chinese Culture Quarterly, Chinese Studies, Ming Studies, National Palace Museum Bulletin, National Palace Museum Research Quarterly, Orientations, China Quarterly, China Review International, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Asian and African Studies, and Ars Orientalis.
THE CHINESE ARTIST GROWS OLD: Aging and Creativity
Praise
“The Chinese Artist Grows Old: Aging and Creativity is a significant addition to the growing literature on the intersection of art and aging. It concisely introduces a diverse range of artists—spanning almost one thousand years—and provides rich context by drawing on contemporaneous literature. Generously illustrated, it is a welcome contribution that will support the development of a more international perspective on the idea of late artistic style.” —Peter L. Doebler, Kettering Curator of Art, Dayton Art Institute
“In The Chinese Artist Grows Old: Aging and Creativity, Jason Kuo has written, with tremendous erudition and critical insight, a fascinating account of how Chinese artists—poets, calligraphers, and painters—from the imperial past to our own time strive to create works of art as they age, often overcoming illness and many other associated difficulties. The book is a major contribution to the current debates in art history and literary studies on late and old-age style.” —Hanwei Wang, Professor of Art History, Nanjing Normal University; author of Studies on the Calligraphy of Dunhuang Documents in the Southern Dynasties