14th Annual Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture in Chinese Archaeology and Art
The Asia-Pacific Institute and the Center for Chinese Studies invite you to a free lecture this Saturday:
14th Annual Sammy Yukuan Lee Lecture in Chinese Archaeology and Art
Sanxingdui and Jinsha: Expanding Horizon of a Lost Civilization
Jay Xu
Foster Foundation Associate Curator of Chinese Art,
Seattle Art Museum
A Bronze Age civilization lost for more than three thousand years was found in China’s southwestern Sichuan province in the mid-1980s. Remains of a large-scale walled settlement were discovered at the village of Sanxingdui, containing two underground pits that were filled with a staggering abundance of objects. These are a curious mixture of artifacts familiar in early Bronze Age China such as bronze vessels and jade blades, and others unprecedented and utterly extraordinary, including a monumental bronze tree, a life-size standing figure, and heads and masks of fantastic supernatural beings. At the beginning of 2001, another major discovery was made at the village of Jinsha, about 40 kilometers south of Sanxingdui, yielding artifacts remarkably similar to some at Sanxingdui. The lecture will discuss the material culture of the Sanxingdui civilization, introduce the new finds, and comment on the possible relationship between the two sites.
About the Speaker: Jay Xu is the Head of the Department of Asian Art and the Foster Foundation Curator of Chinese Art at the Seattle Art Museum/Seattle Asian Art Museum. He joined the staff of SAM in 1996. Prior to that, he had been an assistant curator at the Shanghai Museum, a fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and attended graduate school at Princeton University. During his tenure at SAM, Jay Xu has curated numerous special exhibitions including the groundbreaking display, Treasures from a Lost Civilization: Ancient Chinese Art from Sichuan. He is a contributor to the book Art of the Houma Foundry, which won the prestigious Shimada Prize for the best book in Eastern Asian art history, 1998.
Date: Tuesday, January 01, 2002
Time: 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Lenart Auditorium
Fowler Museum of Cultural History
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095
United States
Cost: Lecture is free and open to the public
Leslie Evans
Tel: (310) 206-3555
levans@isop.ucla.edu
www.isop.ucla.edu
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