Research output per year
Research output per year
I learned Chinese painting from the late James Cahill at the University of California, Berkeley. While I was a graduate student, I also had the great fortune of studying with Tu Wei-ming, Cyril Birch, and the late Edward H. Schafer. After spending three years in Japan as a Research Fellow at Kyoto University, I completed my dissertation on the late Ming artist Chen Hongshou (1598/99-1652). I have taught at Grinnell College, the University of Chicago, and, briefly, at Stanford University. In 1995, I came to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Seventeenth-century Chinese painting and woodblock-printed books
My research interests lie primarily in seventeenth-century Chinese painting and woodblock-printed books. In this context, I have focused on themes that engage self-representation, theories of vision and ways of seeing, as well as the interrelationship between words and images, painting and print. Recently, I am rethinking the traditional Chinese garden from the perspective of the environmental humanities. I am also researching a new book entitled "Engaging Artifice: Chen Hongshou (1598/99-1652) and the Illustrated Book."
University of California, Berkeley, MA (1977) and PhD (1987), in Art History
Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize, College Art Association, January 1995, for “Elegant or Common? Chen Hongshou’s Birthday Presentation Pictures and His Professional Status,” Art Bulletin 76, 2 (June 1994): 227-300.
J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art and Humanities (1988; declined); J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art and Humanities (1992-93); Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (2017-18)
EALC 114: Introduction to East Asian Art; EALC 402: Ways of Seeing in Edo Japan; EALC 403: Word and Image in Chinese Art; EALC 501: Graduate Seminar in Chinese Art (on various topics); forthcoming, "Art, Society, Ecology."
MC-590, 408 E. Peabody Dr.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
Burkus-Chasson, A. (Invited speaker)
Activity: Talk types › Invited talk
Burkus-Chasson, A. (Organizer)
Activity: Attendance types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course