b'MAGGIE BICKFORD\nProfessor of the History of Art and Architecture, Professor of East Asian Studies\nBROWN UNIVERSITY\nDepartment of History of Art & Architecture\nBox 1855\nProvidence, RI 09212\n(401) 863-2599 Fax (401) 863-7790 Email: Maggie_Bickford@Brown.Edu\nEDUCATION\n1987\n1978\n1975\n1972-73\n1968/69\n1965\n\nPh.D., Princeton University, Chinese art and archaeology\nDissertation Topic: \xe2\x80\x9cMomei (Ink Plum): the Emergence, Formation,\nand Development of a Chinese Scholar-Painting Genre\xe2\x80\x9d\nM.A., Princeton University, Chinese art and archaeology\nM.A., Yale University, East Asian Studies\nConnecticut College, Chinese language\nUniversity of London, Goldsmiths College, School of Art,\nPost graduate ceramics\nB.A., Bennington College, language and literature\n\nPROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS\nAcademic:\nBrown University, Professor of History of Art & Architecture, 2002 \xe2\x80\x93 (Chair, 2002 \xe2\x80\x93 05)\nBrown University, Associate Professor of History of Art & Architecture, 1995-2001\nBrown University, Robert Gale Noyes Assistant Professor of the Humanities, 1994-95\n(Inaugural Appointment)\nBrown University, Assistant Professor of History of Art & Architecture, 1987-94\n(1987-89, split appointment with Rhode Island School of Design;\nJuly 1990, full-time Brown)\nWesleyan University, Visiting Lecturer in Liberal Studies, fall, 1986\nWesleyan University, Visiting Instructor in Art, spring, 1985\nInstitute for Asian Studies, New York City, fall, 1982 (seminar)\nPrinceton University, Preceptor, East Asian Studies, spring, 1979\nNorwich (CT) Free Academy, Chinese Language instructor, fall, 1973\nResearch:\nClark Art Institute Fellow, Spring 2006\nJohn Simon Guggenheim Fellow, 2001\nKeio University, Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Letters, May 1999\nSchool of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Member 1998-99\nHarvard University, Associate in Research, Fairbank Center for East Asian\nResearch, 1989Wesleyan University, Visiting Scholar in Art, spring 1987\n\n\x0cMaggie Bickford\n\n2\n\nMuseum/Gallery:\nMuseum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Curator of Asian and Ethnographic Art,\n1987-1989 (split appointment with Brown)\nThe Asia Society Galleries, New York City, 1986-1987\nProject Coordinator for the exhibition and catalogue The Chinese Scholar\'s Studio:\nArtistic Life in the Late Ming Period, a cooperative project with the Shanghai\nMuseum. On-site research and recording of exhibition materials and liaison\nwith Shanghai Museum curators and administrators. Translation of Chinese\nscholarly essays; participation in grant-writing, exhibition and catalogue planning\nand preparation; docent workshop; public lecture and panel\nYale University Art Gallery, 1983-1985\nGuest Curator for the exhibition Bones of Jade, Soul of Ice, The Flowering Plum\nin Chinese Art\nThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, Asian Department, 1980-1982\nGuest Lecturer: MMA in China, April/May, 1982\nDocent training: preparation for opening of Asian galleries, Spring, 1981\nLiaison: Responsible (including interpreting, arrangements, and escort) for\nrelations with Chinese curators, Cultural Relics Bureau officials, and scholarly\ndelegations to The Great Bronze Age of China exhibition and symposium,\nFebruary - August, 1980, and to the Dillon Galleries and Astor Garden Court,\nJune, 1981\nOther:\nR. H. Ellsworth, New York City, 1975-1980\nResearch Assistant: assignments included preliminary cataloguing of the\nR. H. Ellsworth painting collection; consultation on painting and calligraphy\nresearch library; museum appraisal research, and assistance in the appraisal of Mr.\nand Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, 3rd Collection\nFree-lance writer: American painting, architecture, decorative arts, 1972-75\nUniversity of Connecticut (Storrs), Fine Arts Editor: 1970-1973\nPress releases, feature stories, and liaison for the School of Fine Arts, the\nWilliam Benton Museum of Art and U of C concert series and cultural events\nACADEMIC HONORS, RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS\nBook Prizes\nJoseph Levenson Book Prize for Pre-Modern China, Association for Asian Studies For\nInk Plum: The Making of a Chinese Scholar-Painting Genre. 1998\nAmerican Association of Museums Award of Distinction (Catalogs and Books), to Yale\nUniversity Art Gallery for Bones of Jade, Soul of Ice, 1985\nNational and International Fellowships\nClark Art Institute Fellowship, spring 2006\nJohn Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2001\nSchool of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Member, 1998-99\n(Membership accepted; full stipend declined)\nNational Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers, 1998-99\nNational Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers, 1990-91\nChester Dale Fellow, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980-1981\n\n\x0cMaggie Bickford\n\n3\n\nBrown University Awards and Grants\nYear of China Grant, for undergraduate-curated Chinese New Years exhibition, List Art\nCenter 2011 -2012\n(on behalf of the Department) Lectureship Grant for \xe2\x80\x9cInnovation/Adaptation: 5,000\nYears of Making Art in China\xe2\x80\x9d 2011- 2012\nUndergraduate Teaching and Research Assistantships (UTRA) \xe2\x80\x9cThe Shape of Good\nFortune\xe2\x80\x9d To support collaborative student research and exhibition planning,\nSemester 1, 2011\nUndergraduate Teaching and Research Assistantships (UTRA) \xe2\x80\x9cFacture East & West\xe2\x80\x9d To\nsupport collaborative student research, summer 2011\nHumanities Research Fund, Chinese translation review assistance 10/11\nHumanities Research Fund, \xe2\x80\x9cManaging the Cultural Heritage,\xe2\x80\x9d 09/10\nHumanities Research Fund, Direct inspection of Song-Dynasty-attributed paintings 08/09\nUndergraduate Teaching and Research Assistantships (UTRA) \xe2\x80\x9cThe Garden in China and\nJapan\xe2\x80\x9d To support collaborative student research, summer 2008\nHumanities Research Fund, \xe2\x80\x9cLearning from Emperor Huizong: A 12th-century Agenda\nand the Story of Chinese Art\xe2\x80\x9d 2007-08\nHumanities Research Fund, image acquisition and permissions to publish 2006-07\nWendy J. Strothman Faculty Research Award, \xe2\x80\x9cMaking the Chinese Cultural Heritage at\nthe Courts of the Northern Song\xe2\x80\x9d (Travel), 2005\nPresident\xe2\x80\x99s Venture Fund, \xe2\x80\x9cComputer-Assisted Visual Inspection\xe2\x80\x9d (Equipment) 2005 STG Faculty Research Grant, \xe2\x80\x9cComputer-Assisted Visual Inspection\xe2\x80\x9d (Technical) 05-06\nHumanities Research Fund, \xe2\x80\x9cMaking the Chinese Cultural Heritage at the Courts of the\nNorthern Song\xe2\x80\x9d (Image acquisition and permissions), 2005-06\nDepartmental Research Funds for the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences,\n\xe2\x80\x9cInvestigation of Replicative Means of Production of Court Paintings during the\nSong Dynasty\xe2\x80\x9d and \xe2\x80\x9cIn Defense of Images: Zheng Qiao\xe2\x80\x99s (1104-1162) Tupu l\xc3\xbce\n(Treatise on Illustrated Manuscripts) in Song-Dynasty Book Culture\xe2\x80\x9d 2004-2005\nDepartmental Research Funds for the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, \xe2\x80\x9cAuspicious\nVisuality in China\xe2\x80\x9d and \xe2\x80\x9cInvestigation of Replicative Means of Production of\nCourt Paintings during the Song Dynasty\xe2\x80\x9d 2003-2004\nDepartmental Research Funds for the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, \xe2\x80\x9cAuspicious\nVisuality in China\xe2\x80\x9d 2003\nCurricular Development Grant for \xe2\x80\x9cSong Painting\xe2\x80\x9d 2003-04\nWayland Collegium Endeavor Fellow grant for \xe2\x80\x9cSong Painting\xe2\x80\x9d and \xe2\x80\x9cSong Politics and\nPainting.\xe2\x80\x9d 2003-2004\nOdyssey Program \xe2\x80\x9cArts of Imperial Song\xe2\x80\x9d and \xe2\x80\x9cSong Painting\xe2\x80\x9d to support collaborative\nstudent research, summer 2003.\nProvost\xe2\x80\x99s Contingency Fund, for \xe2\x80\x9cHuizong and Northern Song Culture\xe2\x80\x9d, conference and\nworkshop, 2001\nThomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies Faculty Funding Initiative Grant,\nfor \xe2\x80\x9cHuizong and Northern Song Culture,\xe2\x80\x9d conference and workshop,\n2001\nWayland Collegium Curriculum Development Grant, for \xe2\x80\x9cThe Shape of Good Fortune,\xe2\x80\x9d\n2000-2001\nOdyssey Program \xe2\x80\x9cAuspicious Visuality in China\xe2\x80\x9d To support collaborative student\nResearch, Summer 2000\nRichard B. Salomon Faculty Research Award, 1997-1999\n\n\x0cMaggie Bickford\n\n4\n\nOdyssey Program \xe2\x80\x9cImaging Women in Edo Japan, Woodblock Prints at the RISD\nMuseum of Art.\xe2\x80\x9d To support collaborative student research, Summer, 1998\nCurriculum Development Grant, for Introduction to Chinese Art, 1996-97\nRobert Gale Noyes Assistant Professor of the Humanities, 1994-95\nHenry Merritt Wriston Fellowship, 1992-1993\nOther\nSubvention for the publication of Ink Plum (see Books) from the Publication Funds of the\nDepartment of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, 1995\nRhode Island Committee for the Humanities Public Project Grant, for the exhibition and\ncatalogue, The Crawford Bequest: Chinese Art at the Museum of Art, Rhode\nIsland School of Design. David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, 199293\nMetropolitan Center for the Study of Far Eastern Art, travel grant, 1980\nPrinceton University Fellowships, 1975-1980\nYale University Fellowships, 1973-1975\nCOMPLETED RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP\nBooks:\nWenren momei \xe6\x96\x87\xe4\xba\xba\xe5\xa2\xa8\xe6\xa2\x85 (Literati Ink Plum) by Bi Jiazhen \xe6\xaf\x95\xe5\x98\x89\xe7\x8f\x8d (Maggie\nBickford), translated by Sun Hong \xe5\xad\x99\xe7\xba\xa2 (Hangzhou: Zhongguo Meishu yuan\nChubanshe \xe4\xb8\xad\xe5\x9b\xbd\xe7\xbe\x8e\xe6\x9c\xaf\xe5\xad\xa6\xe9\x99\xa2\xe5\x87\xba\xe7\x89\x88\xe7\xa4\xbe [China Academy of Art Publishing Company],\nMay 2010). This is an UNAUTHORIZED publication of an\nUNAUTHORIZED translation of my book Ink Plum (Cambridge UP, 1996).\nI own the rights to this book and I expressly denied them to the translator\nprior to this publication.\nCo-editor with Patricia Ebrey Emperor Huizong and Northern Song Culture: The\nPolitics of Culture and the Culture of Politics. Harvard East Asian Monograph\nseries, Harvard U.P., 2006\nInk Plum: The Making of a Chinese Scholar-Painting Genre. Cambridge University\nPress, 1996\nThe Crawford Bequest: Chinese Art at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of\nDesign. Providence: Brown University, 1993. (Graduate exhibition\ncatalogue; supervisor and editor)\nBones of Jade, Soul of Ice, the Flowering Plum in Chinese Art New Haven: Yale\nUniversity Art Gallery, 1985. (Scholarly exhibition catalogue)\nChinese Paintings: 16th - 20th Century, London: Barlings, 1978 (Exhibition catalogue)\nChapters in Books\n\xe2\x80\x9cVisual Evidence is Evidence: Rehabilitating the Object\xe2\x80\x9d in Bridges to Heaven, Essays\non East Asian Art in Honor of Professor Wen C. Fong, P. Y. and Kinmay W.\nTang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton U, 2011, vol. 1, pp. 67 - 92\n(as \xe7\x95\xa2\xe5\x98\x89\xe7\x8f\x8d) \xe2\x80\x9cFang zhong di siji luanhui: Zhongguo chuantong di \xe2\x80\x98shujiu\xe2\x80\x99 xi su\xe2\x80\x9d \xe2\x80\x9c\xe6\x88\xbf\xe4\xb8\xad\n\xe7\x9a\x84\xe5\x9b\x9b\xe5\xad\xa3\xef\xa7\x97\xe5\x9b\x9e: \xe4\xb8\xad\xe5\x9c\x8b\xe5\x82\xb3\xe7\xb5\xb1\xe7\x9a\x84 \xe2\x80\x98\xef\xa5\xa9\xe4\xb9\x9d\xe2\x80\x99 \xe7\xbf\x92\xe4\xbf\x97\xe2\x80\x9d (The four-seasons round in the home:\nthe traditional Chinese custom of \xe2\x80\x9cCounting the Nines\xe2\x80\x9d) 2 \xe5\x8d\xb7, \xe2\x80\x9c\xe5\xae\xb6\xe5\xb1\x80\xe8\x88\x87\xe5\xae\xb6\xe5\xba\xad\xe2\x80\x9d\n(vol. 2 \xe2\x80\x9cHome and family\xe2\x80\x9d), 15 \xe7\xab\xa0 (Chapter 15) of \xe9\x82\xa3 & \xef\xa4\x8f\xe5\x95\x9f\xe5\xa6\x8d(Ronald Knapp\n& Kai-Yin Lo), eds., Jia: Zhongguoren dijujia wenhua \xe5\xae\xb6: \xe4\xb8\xad\xe5\x9c\x8b\xe4\xba\xba\xe7\x9a\x84\xe5\xb1\x80\xe5\xae\xb6\xe6\x96\x87\n\n\x0cMaggie Bickford\n\n5\n\n\xe5\x8c\x96 (House, Home, Family), Beijing, \xe6\x96\xb0\xe6\x98\x9f\xe5\x87\xba\xe7\x89\x88\xe7\xa4\xbe (New Star Press), 2011.\n[Chinese edition of House, Home, and Family . . . ; see below]\n(as \xe3\x83\x9e\xe3\x82\xae\xe3\x83\xbc\xe3\x80\x82\xe3\x83\x93\xe3\x83\x83\xe3\x82\xaf\xe3\x83\x95\xe3\x82\xa9\xe3\x83\xbc\xe3\x83\x89) Geijutsu to seiji: Kiso no kaiga \xe2\x80\x9c\xe8\x8a\xb8\xe8\xa1\x93\xe3\x81\xa8\xe6\x94\xbf\xe6\xb2\xbb--\xe5\xbe\xbd\xe5\xae\x97\xe3\x81\xae\n\xe7\xb5\xb5\xe7\x94\xbb\xe2\x80\x9d\xef\xbc\x88Art & politics: Huizong\xe2\x80\x99s painting) in Ihara Hiroshi \xe4\xbc\x8a\xe5\x8e\x9f \xe5\xbc\x98 ed., Seimei\nJyokazu to Kiso no jidai- soshite kagayaki no zansho \xe2\x80\x9c\xe6\xb8\x85\xe6\x98\x8e\xe4\xb8\x8a\xe6\xb2\xb3\xe5\x9b\xb3\xe2\x80\x9d\xe3\x81\xa8\xe5\xbe\xbd\xe5\xae\x97\xe3\x81\xae\xe6\x99\x82\n\xe4\xbb\xa3\xe2\x80\x95\xe3\x81\x9d\xe3\x81\x97\xe3\x81\xa6\xe8\xbc\x9d\xe3\x81\x8d\xe3\x81\xae\xe6\xae\x8b\xe7\x85\xa7 (\xe2\x80\x9cQingming shanghe tu\xe2\x80\x9d and the age of Huizong: the\nafterglow of brilliance) ,Tokyo: Bensei Shuppan \xe5\x8b\x89\xe8\xaa\xa0\xe5\x87\xba\xe7\x89\x88, 2011, pp. 82 \xe2\x80\x93 118.\n\xe2\x80\x9cHuizong\xe2\x80\x99s Paintings: Art and the Art of Emperorship,\xe2\x80\x9d Chapter 11 of Ebrey and\nBickford eds. Emperor Huizong and Northern Song Culture: The Politics of\nCulture and the Culture of Politics, Harvard East Asian Monograph series,\nHarvard U.P., 2006.\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Seasonal Round in House and Palace: Counting the Nines in Traditional China,\xe2\x80\x9d\nChapter 15 of Ronald Knapp, ed., House Home Family: Living and Being\nChinese. University of Hawaii Press, 2005, pp. 349-71.\nRefereed Journal Articles:\n\xe2\x80\x9cEmperor Huizong and the Aesthetic of Agency.\xe2\x80\x9d Archives of Asian Art, Vol. 53\n(2002-2003):71-104.\n\xe2\x80\x9cThree Rams and Three Friends: the Working Life of Chinese Auspicious Motifs.\xe2\x80\x9d\nAsia Major, Volume XII, Part I (1999 [issued 2000]):127-158\n\xe2\x80\x9cStirring the Pot of State: the Southern Song Picture Book Mei-hua hsi-shen p\xe2\x80\x99u and Its\nImplications for Yuan Scholar-Painting\xe2\x80\x9d Asia Major, 3rd Series, Vol. 6, Pt. 2\n(1993, [issued 1995]): 169-236.\nWith Charles Hartman. \xe2\x80\x9cThe Purloined Plum and the Heart of Iron: a Contribution to\nThe History of Flowering Plum Imagery in the Sung and Y\xc3\xbcan\nDynasties,\xe2\x80\x9dJournal\nOf Sung-Yuan Studies Vol. 26 (1996): 1-54\nNon-Refereed Articles (and other Publications):\n\xe2\x80\x9cMaking the Chinese Cultural Heritage at the Courts of the Northern Sung\xe2\x80\x9d in\nConference on Founding Paradigms, Papers of the Art and Culture of the Northern Sung\nDynasty National Palace Museum, 2008, 499 \xe2\x80\x93 535\n\n\xe2\x80\x9cTu and Shu, Illustrated Manuscripts in the Great Age of Song Printing\xe2\x80\x9d In Percival\nDavid Foundation Colloquies on Art & Archaeology in Asia No. 23 the Art of the\nBook in China, London, 2006.\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Painting of Flowers and Birds in Sung-Y\xc3\xbcan China\xe2\x80\x9d In Arts of the Sung and Y\xc3\xbcan:\nPapers prepared for an international symposium organized by The Metropolitan\nMuseum of Art in conjunction with the exhibition Splendors of Imperial China:\nTreasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei. New York: MMA, 1996,\npp. 293-315.\n\xe2\x80\x9cTan hua mei\xe2\x80\x9d (On painting plum blossoms). In Duzhe wenzhe (Reader\'s Digest,\nChinese edn.), 44.5 (1987): 70-75.\n\xe2\x80\x9cBones of Jade, Soul of Ice: The Flowering Plum in Chinese Art.\xe2\x80\x9d Orientations, 16.7\n(July, 1985): 10-28.\n\xe2\x80\x9cBones of Jade, Soul of Ice: The Flowering Plum in Chinese Art.\xe2\x80\x9d The Society for\nAsian Art Newsletter. (Winter 1985), rpt. in Lotus Leaves: A Selection of\nEssays from Past Issues of the Society for Asian Art Newsletter. San Francisco:\n1988, pp. 31-33.\n\n\x0cMaggie Bickford\n\n6\n\nReviews\nFascination of Nature by Roderick Whitfield. Artibus Asiae vol. 58.3/4 (1998):343-52\nReference Articles:\n\xe2\x80\x9cChinese Art.\xe2\x80\x9d In New Book of Knowledge Encyclopedia, 3:274-77. Danbury:\nGrolier, 1988.\n\xe2\x80\x9cInk-bamboo, Ink-plum, Ink-flowers.\xe2\x80\x9d In The Dictionary of Art, 6:802-807. London:\nMacmillan, 1996.\n\xe2\x80\x9cWang Mian,\xe2\x80\x9d In The Dictionary of Art, 32:847. London: Macmillan, 1996.\nCatalogue Entries:\n\xe2\x80\x9cKesa.\xe2\x80\x9d In A World of Costume and Textiles: a Handbook of the Collection, ed. S. A.\nHay, Providence: Rhode Island School of Design, 1988, no. 44.\n\xe2\x80\x9cLady among Bamboo and Plum,\xe2\x80\x9d \xe2\x80\x9cInk Plum,\xe2\x80\x9d and (with J. Spence) \xe2\x80\x9cPlum Blossoms\nand Calligraphy.\xe2\x80\x9d In The Communion of Scholars: Chinese Art at Yale,\nM. G. Neill, ed., New York: China Institute, 1982, nos. 46, 48, 56.\nTranslations of Scholarly Articles:\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Arts of Ming Woodblock-Printed Images and Decorated-Paper Albums,\xe2\x80\x9d by Wang\nQingzheng. In The Chinese Scholar\'s Studio. C. T. Li, ed., New York: The\nAsia Society, 1987, pp. 56-60.\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Songjiang School of Painting and the Period Style of Late Ming Painters,\xe2\x80\x9d by Zhu\nXuchu. In The Chinese Scholar\'s Studio.. C. T. Li, ed., New York: The Asia\nSociety, 1987, pp. 52-55.\nAbstracts:\n\xe2\x80\x9cEmperor Huizong and the Aesthetics of Agency.\xe2\x80\x9d In Abstracts of the 2000 Annual\nMeeting. Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 2000.\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe \'Three Friends\' in Song Material Culture, Literature and Literati Painting.\xe2\x80\x9d In\nAbstracts of the 1994 Annual Meeting, p. 43. Ann Arbor: Association for\nAsian Studies, 1994\n\xe2\x80\x9cOn Reading Song Boren\'s Meihua xishen pu.\xe2\x80\x9d In Abstracts of the 1992 Annual\nMeeting, pp. 1-2 Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies, 1992\nOther:\n\xe2\x80\x9cHiroshige\'s Fifty-Three Stages of the Tokaid\xc3\xb4: A Journey through Japanese\nWoodblock Prints.\xe2\x80\x9d Exhibition Notes Number 1 (Spring 1997). Providence:\nMuseum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. (Brown undergraduate\nexhibition notes supervisor and editor)\n\xe2\x80\x9cThrough the Eyes of Charles Chu.\xe2\x80\x9d (Exhibition notes) New London: Lyman Allyn\nMuseum (April, 1990).\n\xe2\x80\x9cDepartment of Asian and Ethnographic Art.\xe2\x80\x9d In [Rhode Island School of Design]\nMuseum Notes (October, 1989): 12-14.\n\xe2\x80\x9cForward.\xe2\x80\x9d In C. T. Bogel, intro. Hiroshige Birds and Flowers, p. 6. New York:\nBraziller, 1988.\n\xe2\x80\x9cDepartment of Asian and Ethnographic Art.\xe2\x80\x9d In (Rhode Island School of Design)\nMuseum Notes, 75:2 (October, 1988): 10-13.\nInvited Lectures:\n\xe2\x80\x9cFlowers and Birds in Chinese Art,\xe2\x80\x9d Asian Art Society if New England, Wellesley, MA,\n1 May 2010\n\xe2\x80\x9cChinese Bird-and-Flower Painting and the Aesthetic of Information,\xe2\x80\x9d Annual General\nMeeting, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 15 June 2010\n\n\x0cMaggie Bickford\n\n7\n\n\xe2\x80\x9cRepossessing the Past: Retrospective Painting at the Courts of Song Dynasty China,\xe2\x80\x9d\n41st William Cohn Memorial Lecture, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford,\n11 November 2009\n\xe2\x80\x9cPotting for Eternity: The Terra Cotta Army of the First Emperor of China,\xe2\x80\x9d Pottery and\nPorcelain Club/RISD Museum, 11 February 2009\n\xc2\xa0 \xe2\x80\x9cEmperor\xc2\xa0Huizong\xc2\xa0(r.\xc2\xa01100\xc2\xa0\xe2\x80\x93\xc2\xa01125)\xc2\xa0and\xc2\xa0the\xc2\xa0Story\xc2\xa0of\xc2\xa0Chinese\xc2\xa0Art,\xe2\x80\x9d Columbia\nUniversity, Pre-Modern China Lecture Series, 2 October 2008\n\xe2\x80\x9cWorks before Words: Putting Paintings First in Writing the History of Chinese Art,\xe2\x80\x9d\nWesleyan University, in honor of Charles Chu, 10 April 2008\n\xe2\x80\x9cEarly Books in China,\xe2\x80\x9d Bartlett Society, Brown, John Hay Library, 28 November 2007\n\xe2\x80\x9cWhy Visual Evidence is Evidence: Connoisseurship and the Story of Chinese Art in\nthe Early 21st Century,\xe2\x80\x9d Union College, 17 May 2006\n\xe2\x80\x9cLearning from Emperor Huizong: a 12th Century Agenda and the Story of Chinese\nPainting,\xe2\x80\x9d Clark Art Institute, 7 March 2006\n\xe2\x80\x9cShaping Good Fortune,\xe2\x80\x9d Reeves Center, Washington and Lee University, 26 September\n2005\n\xe2\x80\x9cEmperor Huizong\xe2\x80\x99s Paintings: Works of Art as Works of State,\xe2\x80\x9d P.Y. and Kinmay W.\nTang Center for Chinese and Japanese art and Department of Art and\nArchaeology, Princeton University, 23 October 2002.\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Art of Emperor Huizong\xe2\x80\x9d and \xe2\x80\x9cThe Three Excellences: Poetry, Calligraphy, and\nPainting,\xe2\x80\x9d Christie\xe2\x80\x99s Education. New York, 12 October 2000\n\xe2\x80\x9cSong Painting,\xe2\x80\x9d Christie\xe2\x80\x99s Education,\xe2\x80\x9d Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 5 October 2000\n\xe2\x80\x9cIf Wishes were Pictures: Art and Good Fortune in China.\xe2\x80\x9d Brown Humanities Institute,\n16 May 2000\n\xe2\x80\x9cEmperor Huizong and the Aesthetics of Agency.\xe2\x80\x9d Princeton University, 22 February\n2000\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Shape of Good Fortune: Auspicious Images in Chinese Painting and the\nDecorative Arts\xe2\x80\x9d Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 8 December 1999\n\xe2\x80\x9cWhat is Scholar Painting in the Late Song and Early Yuan?\xe2\x80\x9d Keio University,\n17 May 1999\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Three Rams and the Three Friends: Auspicious Visuality in China.\xe2\x80\x9d\nUniversity of Southern California, 31 March 1999\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Three Rams and the Three Friends: The Working Lives of Motifs from the Han\nThrough the Qing Dynasty.\xe2\x80\x9d Christie\xe2\x80\x99s Education (Sources of Decoration in\nChinese Art) New York, 20 March 1999\n\xe2\x80\x9cHow to Look at Chinese Paintings.\xe2\x80\x9d Christie\xe2\x80\x99s Education, New York, 3 December\n1998\n\xe2\x80\x9cTextiles as Texts: The Finds from Miss Huang Sheng\'s Southern Song Tomb.\xe2\x80\x9d\nChristie\xe2\x80\x99s Education. (Social Fabric The Art of Chinese and Japanese Textiles;\nSymposium) New York, 12 March 1998\n\xe2\x80\x9cPainting.\xe2\x80\x9d Christie\'s Education. (Chinese Works of Art: The Basics; Symposium) New\nYork, 28 February 1997.\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Chinese Archaeological Revolution: Rethinking Early China.\xe2\x80\x9d Brown\nUniversity, 12 November 1996. Sponsored by Chinese Students Association\nand Chinese Culture and Language Corner (Asian-American History Month).\n\n\x0cMaggie Bickford\n\n8\n\n\xe2\x80\x9cA Nation\'s Fragrance: Qian Xuan\'s Pear Blossoms.\xe2\x80\x9d University of Wisconsin,\nMadison, 2 April 1996.\n\xe2\x80\x9cAncient China: Art and Archaeology.\xe2\x80\x9d Parents\' Weekend, Brown University,\n28 October 1995.\n\xe2\x80\x9cWord and Image in Chinese Art.\xe2\x80\x9d Connecticut College (The 1992-93 Coudret Lecture),\n12 November 1992.\n\xe2\x80\x9cChinese Calligraphy.\xe2\x80\x9d Columbiad. Meriden, CT, 14 April 1992.\n\xe2\x80\x9cA Nation\'s Fragrance: Resistance and Renewal in Chinese Flower Painting.\xe2\x80\x9d\nThe Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, 3 June 1990.\n\xe2\x80\x9cRecent Archaeological Discoveries in China\xe2\x80\x9d American Institute of Archaeology,\nNarragansett Society, Providence, 2 May 1990.\n"Bird and Flower Painting in Traditional China." Lyman Allyn Museum. New\nLondon, 22 April 1990.\n\xe2\x80\x9cArchaeology and Politics in The People\'s Republic of China.\xe2\x80\x9d Brown Humanities\nInstitute. Providence, 17 April 1990.\n\xe2\x80\x9cChinese Art Treasures at the RISD Museum.\xe2\x80\x9d Pembroke Club, Museum of Art,\nRhode Island School of Design, April, 1989.\n\xe2\x80\x9cChinese Ceramics at the RISD Museum.\xe2\x80\x9d Pottery and Porcelain Club, Museum of\nArt, Rhode Island School of Design, March, 1989.\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Art of the Chinese Neolithic Potter.\xe2\x80\x9d Pottery and Porcelain Club, Museum of Art,\nRhode Island School of Design, 27 January 1988.\n"The Elegant Object: The Four Treasures of the Scholar\'s Studio." The Asia Society,\nNew York City, November, 1987.\n\xe2\x80\x9cBones of Jade, Soul of Ice, the Flowering Plum in Chinese Art.\xe2\x80\x9d\nMount Holyoke College (Amy M. Sacker Memorial Lecture), 29 April 1986;\nConnecticut College, 28 May 1986;\nMichigan Oriental Art Society, 22 February 1987.\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Flowering Plum in Chinese Painting.\xe2\x80\x9d\nThe Society for Asian Art and the University Art Museum, Berkeley,\n24 January 1985;\nYale University Art Gallery, 17 April and 3 May 1985;\nThe Saint Louis Art Museum, 14 July 1985.\n\xe2\x80\x9cArts of China: New Archaeological Discoveries.\xe2\x80\x9d Archaeological Institute of America,\nHartford Society, Trinity College, 3 October 1983.\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Chinese Garden.\xe2\x80\x9d Connecticut Historical Society, 12 January 1982.\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Flowering Plum in Chinese Painting,\xe2\x80\x9d China Institute, New York, November, 1979.\nConference Papers:\n\xe2\x80\x9cAgency under The Skin: Song Bird and Flower Painting Revisited,\xe2\x80\x9d at for \xe2\x80\x9cReading\nbetween the Fine Lines: Non-Visual Meaning in Song and Ming Paintings: A\nPanel in Honor of Professor Emerita Ellen Johnston Laing,\xe2\x80\x9d panel 227, Annual\nMeeting, Association for Asian Studies, Philadelphia PA, 27 March 2010\n\xe2\x80\x9cBronzes and the History of Chinese Art,\xe2\x80\x9d symposium on Art and Archaeology of the\nErligang Civilization, P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art,\nPrinceton University, 27 April 2008.\n\xe2\x80\x9cLearning from Emperor Huizong,\xe2\x80\x9d New England East Asian Art History Seminar,\nHarvard University, 8 December 2007\n\n\x0cMaggie Bickford\n\n9\n\n\xe2\x80\x9cDisplaying Visual Knowledge during the Song Period: The Aesthetics of\nParticularity\xe2\x80\x9d \xe2\x80\x9cFirst Impressions: the Cultural History of Print in China (8th \xe2\x80\x93\n14th Centuries),\xe2\x80\x9d Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University,\n26 June 2007.\n\xe2\x80\x9cMaking the Chinese Cultural Heritage at the Courts of the Northern Sung,\xe2\x80\x9d\n\xe2\x80\x9cConference on Founding Paradigms, the Art and Culture of the Northern Sung\nDynasty,\xe2\x80\x9d National Palace Museum, Taipei, 6 Feb 2007\n\xe2\x80\x9cWhy Visual Evidence is Evidence: Rehabilitating Connoisseurship at the Start of a\nNew Century,\xe2\x80\x9d \xe2\x80\x9cBridges to Heaven, A Symposium on East Asian Art in Honor\nof Professor Wen C. Fong,\xe2\x80\x9d P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art,\nPrinceton University, 1 April 2006\n\xe2\x80\x9cTraversing Media and Remodeling Motifs in East Asian Art\xe2\x80\x9d (Keynote speech), The\nP.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art at Princeton University 2006\nGraduate Student Symposium, Princeton, 18 Feb 2006\n\xe2\x80\x9cTu and Shu, Illustrated Manuscripts in the Great Age of Song Printing.\xe2\x80\x9d\nPercival\nDavid Foundation of Chinese Art, Colloquy on Art & Archaeology No. 23, the\nArt of the Book in China .13 June 2005\n\xe2\x80\x9cRelic, Replica, and Romance: Possessing the Past at the Courts of Song China.\xe2\x80\x9d\nSong Painting and its Legacy, Yale University, 3 April 2004.\n\xe2\x80\x9cEmperor Huizong\xe2\x80\x99s Paintings: Art and Imperial Agency.\xe2\x80\x9d China Colloquium,\nUniversity of Washington, 12 December 2002.\n\xe2\x80\x9cEmperors Making Good Fortune: Auspicious Images at the Courts of Northern Song\nChina.\xe2\x80\x9d East Asian Studies Humanities Colloquium,\xe2\x80\x9d University of\nPennsylvania, 24 October 2002.\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Omen Made by Man: The Art and Craft of Auspicious Image Making at the\nCourts of the Northern Song.\xe2\x80\x9d Decorative Arts of China and the Making of\nIcons Symposium, Bard Graduate Center, 26 April 2002.\n\xe2\x80\x9cHuizong\xe2\x80\x99s Painting: Art and the Art of Emperorship.\xe2\x80\x9d Huizong and the Culture of\nNorthern Song China Conference, Brown University, 1 December 2001.\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Seasonal Round in House and Palace: Counting the Nines in Traditional China.\xe2\x80\x9d\n\xe2\x80\x9cHouse, Home and Family: Living and Being Chinese, a symposium in\nconjunction with the exhibition Living Heritage: Vernacular Environment in\nChina,\xe2\x80\x9d China Institute in America/Asia Society, 28 April 2001.\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Problem(s) of Huizong.\xe2\x80\x9d Huizong and Northern Song Culture Workshops,\nUniversity of Washington, 3 February 2001.\n\xe2\x80\x9cOnce Again on \xe2\x80\x98The Problem of Huizong.\xe2\x80\x99\xe2\x80\x9d New England East Asian Art History\nSeminar and Fairbank Center, Harvard University, 18 October 2000\n\xe2\x80\x9cEmperor Huizong and the Aesthetics of Agency.\xe2\x80\x9d Annual Meeting, Association for\nAsian Studies, San Diego, 10 March 2000\n\xe2\x80\x9cAuspicious Visuality in China.\xe2\x80\x9d Harvard University, China Humanities Seminar.\n27 September 1999\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Three Rams and The Three Friends: On the Working Lives of Auspicious Motifs\nin Chinese Visual Culture.\xe2\x80\x9d \xe2\x80\x9cVisual Dimensions of Chinese Culture\nSymposium,\xe2\x80\x9d Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, March 26, 1999\n\xe2\x80\x9cTextiles as Texts: Rewriting Song Cultural History with the Material Evidence of\nHuang Sheng\xe2\x80\x99s Tomb.\xe2\x80\x9d\nAEDTA Roundtable, Association pour l\xe2\x80\x99\xc3\x89tude et la Documentation des Textiles\nd\xe2\x80\x99Asie, Paris, 8 July 1998\n\n\x0cMaggie Bickford\n\n10\n\nSchool of Historical Studies Colloquium, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton,\n9 November 1998\nSeminar on Visual Dimensions of Chinese Culture, School of Historical Studies,\nInstitute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 20 November 1998\n\xe2\x80\x9cTextual Evidence and Textile Evidence: Confronting the Song Literati Record With the\nMaterial Evidence of Song Tombs,\xe2\x80\x9d New England East Asian Art History\nSeminar, Harvard University, 15 November 1997.\n\xe2\x80\x9cTextiles as Texts: emending the Song Literary Record with the Material Evidence of\nHuang Sheng\'s Tomb.\xe2\x80\x9d Percival David Foundation Colloquies on Art &\nArchaeology No. 19 Chinese Textiles, London, 16 June 1997.\n\xe2\x80\x9cYuan Yimin Culture: Expanding the Visual Evidence; Fine-tuning\nInterpretation\xe2\x80\x9d (summary) Middle Period China Workshop, Harvard University, 5\nApril 1997\n\xe2\x80\x9cZhao Mengjian and Qian Xuan: Late Song Fine-Style Flower Painting, Yongwu Poetry,\nand the Yimin Culture of Early Yuan,\xe2\x80\x9d New England East Asian Art History\nSeminar, Harvard University, 16 November 1996.\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Painting of Flowers and Birds in Sung-Y\xc3\xbcan China.\xe2\x80\x9d Arts of the Sung and Y\xc3\xbcan:\nan international symposium organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in\nconjunction with the exhibition Splendors of Imperial China, The Metropolitan\nMuseum of Art, 12 May 1996.\n\xe2\x80\x9cLuck and Virtue: \xe2\x80\x98The Three Friends of the Cold Season\xe2\x80\x99 in Song Material Culture,\nLiterature and Literati Painting,\xe2\x80\x9d Faculty Colloquium, Brown University, 16\nNovember 1994.\n\xe2\x80\x9cLuck and Virtue: \xe2\x80\x98The Three Friends\xe2\x80\x99 in Song Material Culture, Literature and Literati\nPainting,\xe2\x80\x9d Annual Meeting, Association for Asian Studies, Boston,\n25 March 1994.\n\xe2\x80\x9cOn (Finally) Reading Song Boren\'s Meihua xishen pu,\xe2\x80\x9d New England East Asian Art\nHistory Seminar, Harvard University, 16 May 1992.\n\xe2\x80\x9cMeihua xishen pu: aesthetic pleasure or activist politics?\xe2\x80\x9d East Coast Chinese Poetry\nGroup, Harvard University, 9 May 1992.\n\xe2\x80\x9cOn Reading Song Boren\'s Meihua xishen pu,\xe2\x80\x9d Annual Meeting, Association for Asian\nStudies, Washington, DC, 2 April 1992.\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Archaeological Excavations of the Han Tombs at Mawangdui.\xe2\x80\x9d Third Annual\nNew England Symposium on Chinese Thought. Wethersfield, Vermont, 19 May\n1990.\n\xe2\x80\x9cPeonies and Plum Blossoms: Aesthetics of Feminine Beauty in Traditional China.\xe2\x80\x9d\nDaughters of Accomplishment: Chinese Women Artists Past & Present, a\nsymposium in conjunction with the exhibition, Views from Jade Terrace:\nChinese Women Artists, 1300-1912, China Institute in America, New York,\n21 October 1989.\n\xe2\x80\x9cFragrant Shadows: Chinese Ink-flower Painting.\xe2\x80\x9d\nWomen in Traditional China, a\nsymposium in conjunction with the exhibition Views from Jade Terrace:\nChinese Women Artists, 1300-1912, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 15 October\n1988.\n\xe2\x80\x9cInk-Plum: a Case-study in the Formation of a Chinese Scholar-Painting Genre.\xe2\x80\x9d\nCollege Art Association Annual Meeting, Houston, 12 February 1988.\n\xe2\x80\x9cDouble Vision: Song Pictures, Yuan Texts.\xe2\x80\x9d Harvard University, Pre-Modern China\nSeminar, 19 October 1987.\n\n\x0cMaggie Bickford\n\n11\n\n\xe2\x80\x9cYequ/yaqu: The Rustic and Elegant Modes of Flowering-Plum Appreciation in\nSouthern Song Painting.\xe2\x80\x9d New England Conference of the Association for\nAsian Studies, 1986 Annual Meeting, Yale University, 15 November 1986.\n\xe2\x80\x9cNi Zan and Wang Fu: A Stylistic Analysis.\xe2\x80\x9d Symposium on the History of Art,\npresented by The Frick Collection and the Institute of Fine Arts of New York\nUniversity, 3 April 1981.\n\nPanels & Presentations:\n\xe2\x80\x9cEloquent Objects: Using Archaeologically Excavated Materials to teach about\nAncient and Early China,\xe2\x80\x9d National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA)\nK-12 teachers workshop, 25 October2008, Brown\n\xe2\x80\x9cBrave New World or Same-Old with Geekery?\xe2\x80\x9d Session 2 of \xe2\x80\x9cThe Work of Art History\nin the Digital Age,\xe2\x80\x9d Clark [Art Institute]/CLIR [Council on Library and\nInformation Resources] colloquium, Williamstown, MA, 27 June 2008, presenter\nand discussion leader\n\xe2\x80\x9cA Kach\xc5\x8dga Dialogue\xe2\x80\x9d RISD Museum, Providence. 16 March 2007. Respondent.\n\xe2\x80\x9cEmperor Huizong,\xe2\x80\x9d \xe2\x80\x9cConference on Founding Paradigms, the Art and Culture of the\nNorthern Sung Dynasty,\xe2\x80\x9d Session 3. National Palace Museum, Taipei, 6 Feb\n2007. Chair\n\xe2\x80\x9cForming the Canons.\xe2\x80\x9d \xe2\x80\x9cAsian Art History in the Twenty-first Century.\xe2\x80\x9d Clark Art\nInstitute and Asia Society, Williamstown, 28 April 2006. Moderator.\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Kawai Japan Arts and Culture Roundtable,\xe2\x80\x9d Co-organizer with James McClain;\nco-moderator, \xe2\x80\x9cThe Arts and Literature\xe2\x80\x9d Panel. Brown University, 28 January\n2006\nThe \xe2\x80\x9cTraversing Media and Remodeling Motifs in East Asian Art\xe2\x80\x9d ( Convener, Keynote\nspeech, and Discussant), The P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian\nArt at Princeton University 2006 Graduate Student Symposium, Princeton, 18 Feb\n2006\n\xe2\x80\x9cEmperor Huizong\xe2\x80\x99s Paintings,\xe2\x80\x9d Graduate Seminar, Department of Art and\nArchaeology, Princeton University, 22 October 2002.\n\xe2\x80\x9cMaking Art: The material and Textual Production of Images and Objects in Tang to\nYuan China.\xe2\x80\x9d Annual Meeting, Association for Asian Studies, Washington, D.C.\n5 April 2002, discussant.\n\xe2\x80\x9cHuizong and the Culture of Northern Song China.\xe2\x80\x9d Workshops and Conference.\nBrown University 30 November - 2 December 2001, organizer, presenter\n\xe2\x80\x9cHuizong and Northern Song Culture.\xe2\x80\x9d Workshops. University of Washington 1-3\nFebruary 2001, co-organizer, presenter, discussant\n\xe2\x80\x9cReading, Image and Art.\xe2\x80\x9d Annual Meeting, New England Conference of the\nAssociation for Asian Studies, Providence, 1 Oct 2000. Chair\n\xe2\x80\x9cEmperor Huizong and Northern Song Culture.\xe2\x80\x9d Annual Meeting, Association for\nAsian Studies, San Diego, 10 March 2000. Organizer and presenter.\n\xe2\x80\x9cSong Literati Strategies of Distinction in Prose and Painting.\xe2\x80\x9d Annual Meeting,\nAssociation for Asian Studies, Washington, D.C. 28 March 1998, discussant.\n\n\x0cMaggie Bickford\n\n12\n\n\xe2\x80\x9cYuan Yimin Culture: Extending the Visual Evidence; Fine-tuning Interpretation.\xe2\x80\x9d\nMiddle Period China Workshop. Harvard University, 5 April 1997\n\xe2\x80\x9cImage and Text and Text and Image: the Intersection of Chinese Literary and Visual\nArts.\xe2\x80\x9d Annual Meeting, Association for Asian Studies, Los Angeles,\n26 April 1993, discussant.\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Scholar-artist in China Today,\xe2\x80\x9d Asia Society, New York, 7 November 1988.\n\xe2\x80\x9cReport from Shanxi and Gansu,\xe2\x80\x9d The New England East Asian Art History Forum,\nFairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, September, 1988.\n\nRESEARCH IN PROGRESS\nComputing\n\xe2\x80\x9cComputer-Assisted Visual Inspection (of Chinese Paintings)\xe2\x80\x9d. In conjunction with\nBrown Scholarly Technology Group, development of procedures and standards for visual\nanalysis of pre-modern Chinese paintings. Three goals: advanced scholarly research\ntools, pedagogical applications (graduate and undergraduate), documentation and\npublication. The scholarly demonstration project is: \xe2\x80\x9cMaking the Chinese Cultural\nHeritage at the Courts of the Northern Song,\xe2\x80\x9d in which works attributed to periods\nranging from the 5th to the 10th centuries are subjected to manipulations of scale and\norientation, and isolation of form-types, stroke types and self-documentation, through\nuniform actions that are controlled carefully to maximize visual truthfulness, and are\nshown to be contemporary products, probably made during the 12th century.\nDocumentation in progress. Fieldwork: Beijing 2005. This project was the focus of my\n2005-06 Leave and continues as my primary research mode during my 2009-2010 leave.\nSupported by Clark Art Institute Fellowship and Brown President\xe2\x80\x99s Venture Fund,\nWendy J. Strothman Faculty Research Award, STG Faculty Research Grant, Humanities\nResearch Fund.\nBooks\n\xe2\x80\x9cMAKING THE CHINESE CULTURAL HERITAGE AT THE COURTS OF THE\nSONG DYNASTY (960-1279)\xe2\x80\x9d This project began as the scholarly component of my\n\xe2\x80\x9cComputer-Assisted Visual Inspection (of Chinese Painting)\xe2\x80\x9d project (see immediately\nabove, where work to date and funding sources are cited). I have developed it through\nread conference papers and articles in progress, and now am preparing to further develop\nmy research into a book. In my work to date I have used visual argumentation and\ntextual evidence to demonstrate my proposition that the paintings that populate the\ntraditional and modern history of the early great painters of China actually are 12thcentury creations that were commissioned by the Song Dynasty emperors in order to\ncreate an continuous material history of the Chinese cultural heritage. Through\nSinological research I have proposed means of transmission and production of such\nimages at the Song court. Currently I am preparing articles for specialist and general\nscholarly publications (see below). In the next \xe2\x80\x93book \xe2\x80\x93 phase of my project, I focus on\nthese anonymous 12th-century place-holders for lost early paintings \xe2\x80\x93 repositioning them\nin their original context as Song-Dynasty engagements with China\xe2\x80\x99s visual past, tracing\ntheir subsequent transmission and influence in later Imperial China, and the\nconsequences for the history of Chinese painting as it is understood today. Findings\npresented at Clark Institute Lecture and Seminar 2006, National Palace Museum\nSymposium and New England East Asian Art History Seminar 2007, Columbia\n\n\x0cMaggie Bickford\n\n13\n\nUniversity 2008, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford 2009. (see \xe2\x80\x9cInvited\nLectures\xe2\x80\x9d and \xe2\x80\x9cConferences above). Research British Museum, November 2009, funded\nby the Humanities research Fund\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Shape of Good Fortune: Auspicious Visuality in China.\xe2\x80\x9d Begun as a paper\nread, 1994 Annual Meeting, Association for Asian Studies; research, writing, and\npresentations, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, 1998-99; major\nresearch project during Sabbatical Leave AY 2001-02. Aspects of and material from\nchapters 4, 5, and 9 \xe2\x80\x93 \xe2\x80\x9cHuizong the Lucky Emperor,\xe2\x80\x9d \xe2\x80\x9cThree Friends of the Cold Season,\nLuck and Virtue Conjoined in Poetry, Scholar Painting, and the Decorative Arts,\xe2\x80\x9d and\n\xe2\x80\x9cCounting the Nines in Traditional China\xe2\x80\x9d \xe2\x80\x93 presented and developed in published and\nforthcoming articles and book chapters, and in papers and lectures at conferences,\nmuseums, and universities (see \xe2\x80\x9cCompleted Research\xe2\x80\x9d) and in ongoing projects (see\n\xe2\x80\x9cResearch in Progress\xe2\x80\x9d). Fieldwork: England, Scotland, France, Turkey, summer\n1998; U.S., China, and Japan, spring 1999; Beijing and Shanghai, fall 1999. Brown\nundergraduate seminar: HA104, Section 1, \xe2\x80\x9cThe Shape of Good Fortune,\xe2\x80\x9d 2000-2001,\nSemester 1. I offered this course, with computer-assisted refinements, as a Freshman\nSeminar in 2006-2007. The Auspicious Visuality project has been supported by Brown\nHumanities Research Funds 2003 and 2004; Guggenheim Fellowship, 2001; National\nEndowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers, 1998-99; Institute\nfor Advanced Study Membership, 1998-99; Richard C. Salomon Faculty Research\nAward, 1997-2000; Wayland Collegium Curriculum Development Grant, for HA104,\nSection 1, \xe2\x80\x9cThe Shape of Good Fortune,\xe2\x80\x9d 2000-2001; Odyssey Grant for collaborative\nstudent research, summer 2000.\n\xe2\x80\x9cZhao Mengjian, Qian Xuan, and the Late Song Literati Avant-Garde\xe2\x80\x9d Begun in 1996;\npresented and developed in published article and in papers and lectures at conferences,\nmuseums, and universities (see \xe2\x80\x9cCompleted Research\xe2\x80\x9d). Fieldwork: China and Japan,\nMay 1999; China, October 1999. Research and discussion continue; further\ndevelopment in conjunction with seminars (see Teaching pages).\nConference Papers\nBook Chapters\n\xe2\x80\x9cBronzes and the History of Chinese Art,\xe2\x80\x9d in \xe2\x80\x9cErligang Civilization\xe2\x80\x9d conference volume\nArticles\n\xe2\x80\x9cChinese Bird-and-Flower Painting and the Aesthetic of Information\xe2\x80\x9d (for Transactions\nof the Oriental Ceramic Society)\n\xe2\x80\x9cLearning from Emperor Huizong: Song Imperial Production of the Material Past and\nits Consequences for the History of Pre-Song Painting\xe2\x80\x9d\n\xe2\x80\x9cTextiles as Texts: Emending the Song Literary Record with the Material Evidence of\nHuang Sheng\'s Tomb.\xe2\x80\x9d Updating for submission by invitation to a scholarly\njournal; originally written for Percival David Foundation Colloquies on Art &\nArchaeology No. 19 Chinese Textiles; (ms. accepted 1997; PDF production delays;\nrequested return of ms. for submission elsewhere).\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Omen Made by Man: Auspicious Visuality and the Heavenly Texts Affair\xe2\x80\x9d\n\n\x0cMaggie Bickford\n\n14\n\nWith Tiffany Beres. \xe2\x80\x9cMasterworks in Multiples: An Investigation of Replicative\nMeans of Production of Court Paintings during the Song Dynasty\xe2\x80\x9d Supported by\nHumanities Research Fund.\nExhibitions\nSupervisor, undergraduate-curated Chinese New Years Exhibition (\xe2\x80\x9cThe Shape of Good\nFortune: Welcoming the year of the Dragon\xe2\x80\x9d), List Lobby, 2011-2012\nMUSEUM/GALLERY\nExhibitions:\n1. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design:\nHiroshige\'s Fifty-Three Stages of the Tokaid\xc3\xb4: A Journey through JapaneseWoodblock\nPrints. In-house exhibition,\nPart I: May 23 to August 24, 1997;\nPart II: August 29 to December 7, 1997; Brown University undergraduate\nseminar, Supervisor.\n2.\n\nMuseum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design:\nChinese Ceramics: Selections from the Collection. In-house exhibition,\nSpring, 1996. Brown University Graduate Student Practicum, Supervisor.\n3. David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University:\nThe Crawford Bequest: Chinese Art at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of\nDesign. February 6-March 14, 1993, Supervisor.\n4. Yale University Art Gallery:\nBones of Jade, Soul of Ice, The Flowering Plum in Chinese Art, 1985.\nProject Originator; Exhibition co-organizer (with M. G. Neill, Curator of Oriental\nArt, Yale University Art Gallery; now, Director, Seattle Art Museum); Guest\nCurator and Catalogue Author (with contributions by H. H. Frankel, M. G. Neill,\nC. H. Chang, and H. L. Li)\nExhibited: University Art Museum, Berkeley, 23 January - 24 March 1985;\nYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 18 April - 16 June 1985; The Saint Louis\nArt Museum, 12 July - 8 September 1985\nMuseum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design,\nIn-House Exhibitions Completed:\nTreasures from the Permanent Collection of Chinese Art (Main Gallery),\n3 March - 23 April 1989.\nKachoga: Bird and Flower Prints of Hiroshige, Part II, January, 1989.\nArt for Your Collection (Asian and Ethnographic objects), December, 1988.\nKachoga: Bird and Flower Prints of Hiroshige, Part I, September, 1988.\nArts of Ancient China, September, 1988.\nThe Art of the East Asian Potter: China, Korea, and Japan, May, 1988\n(as Brown independent study project).\nJapanese Theatrical Prints, May, 1988 (as Brown independent study project).\nThe Indian Sari (with Museum of Art\'s Costumes and Textiles Department), Spring, 1988.\nPrehistoric Stone Art of Costa Rica, 5 February 1988 - 15 May 1988.\nMeishoe: Famous Places in Japanese Prints by Hiroshige, Part II: Tokaido,\n29 January 1988 - 8 May 1988.\n\n\x0cMaggie Bickford\n\n15\n\nArt for Your Collection (Asian and Ethnographic objects),\n2 December 1987 - 13 December 1988.\nKesa: Japanese Buddhist Vestments from the Lucy T. Aldrich Collection (with\nCostumes\nand Textiles), 20 November 1987 - 28 February 1988.\nMeishoe: Famous Places in Japanese Prints by Hiroshige, Part I,\n2 October 1987 - 24 January 1988.\nArt of the Ottoman Empire, 25 September 87 - 24 January 1988.\nLoan Exhibitions:\nImages of the Mind (selection, negotiation, and installation of objects from a larger loan\nshow organized by the Art Museum, Princeton University), 3 March23 April 1989.\nJapanese Crafts New England, October, 1988.\nReinstallations:\nChinese Sculpture Gallery, May/June, 1989\nAncient China Gallery, May/June, 1989\nIndian/Islamic Gallery, May/June, 1989\nEast Asian Gallery, May/June, 1989\nChinese Ceramics Gallery, April, 1988\nCuratorial Activities: Department of Asian and Ethnographic Art, Museum of Art,\nRhode Island School of Design\nNegotiated Project Completed:\nS. Hay, ed. Patterns and Poetry: No robes from the Lucy Truman Aldrich\nCollection at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. Providence:\n1992.\nConducted negotiations in Providence and Tokyo with Bun You Associates and with\nauthors for this scholarly catalogue in which the Museum\'s No robes are illustrated\nfully in color and are discussed by Japanese and American specialists. The expenses\nof research, photography, and production were underwritten fully by\nBun You in return for the exhibition and publication in Japan of the Museum\'s\ncollection of Hiroshige bird-and-flower woodblock prints.\nSymposium:\nIndonesian Textiles, 19-20 September 1987 (with Costumes and Textiles)\nDocent Training:\nChinese Art Treasures, Images of the Mind, Spring, 1989\nBird & Flower Prints, Fall, 1988\nKesa, Meishoe Part II, 2 February 1988\nChinese Influence on l8th Century Decorative Arts, 14 January 1988\nOttoman, Meishoe, 10 November 1987\nOther:\nCollection maintenance, research, and evaluation;\nCollection development: donor and dealer relations;\nArrangement of viewings and other services for scholars and teachers;\nPreparation of copy for labels, hand-outs, calendar, and other printed matter;\nCooperation with Education Department and Public Relations;\n\n\x0cMaggie Bickford\n\n16\n\nParticipation in grant application process;\nSupervision: Brown Proctor; student intern; work/study student;\nConnoisseurship of objects (Museum service to public);\nContributions to Museum publications;\nGallery tours for special guests/groups;\nProject planning, negotiations, and expediting\nSERVICE\nUniversity:\nYear of China Planning and programming 2001 \xe2\x80\x93 2012\nTenure, Promotion and Appointments Committee (TPAC) 2007 \xe2\x80\x93 09; 2010 - 11\nLMS Assessment Full Project Team, 2011\nCultural Program Planning for Year of China with Chung-I Tan 2010 \xe2\x80\x93 2012\nUTRA Selection Committee 2009\nLibrary Advisory Board, 2003 \xe2\x80\x93 2007 (Vice-Chair, 2003)\nFaculty Library Committee, 2002 - 2003; 1995-1998 (Chair, 1996-97)\nSteering Committee, Ancient Studies, 2004 \xe2\x80\x93\nSearch Committee, University Librarian 2004 \xe2\x80\x93 05\nBudget Reform Committee 2004 \xe2\x80\x93\nSearch Committee, Andrea Rosenthal Chair in History of Art and Architecture 2004- 05\nCommittee on Institutional Collaboration, 2003 \xe2\x80\x93\nBrown/RISD Collaboration Committee, 2002 \xe2\x80\x93 2003\nSearch Committee, Chair, Joukowsky Post-doctoral Fellowship in Chinese Studies,\n(HAA, EAS, Ancient Studies), 2003-2004\nSearch Committee, Chinese Language and Literature (EAS), 2003 \xe2\x80\x93 2004\nSearch Committee, Japanese Buddhism (EAS-RS), 2003 \xe2\x80\x93 2004\nAcademic Code Committee, 2003Bell Gallery Committee, 2002University Disciplinary Council, 2002 - 2004; Fall 1999-2001 (Chair 02/03 Semester 2)\nRUE Committee, 2002 \xe2\x80\x93\nOdyssey Program. \xe2\x80\x9cArts of Imperial Song\xe2\x80\x9d and \xe2\x80\x9cChinese Painting during the Song\nDynasty.\xe2\x80\x9d With Alessia Cook \xe2\x80\x9904. Summer 2003\nOdyssey Program. \xe2\x80\x9cAuspicious Visuality in China.\xe2\x80\x9d With Miriam Silverman \xe2\x80\x9820.\nSummer 2000\nOdyssey Program. \xe2\x80\x9cImaging Women in Edo Japan, Woodblock Prints at the RISD\nMuseum of Art.\xe2\x80\x9d With Xochitl Gonzales \'99. Summer, 1998\nNew England Association of Schools and Colleges Steering Committee 1997-98\nFaculty Teaching Liaison (History of Art) Sheriden Center for Teaching and Learning,\n1997-98\nWriston Grant Selection Committee, 1997\nStrategic Planning Task Force on Information Resources and Support, 1996-97\nWriston Fellowship Selection Committee, 1996\nCommittee on the Status of Women, 1994-97 (Secretary, 1995-97)\nMember, Search Committee, Bell Gallery, 1995\nLecturer, Parents\' Weekend 1995, 28 October 1995\nParticipant, joint meeting of the Corporation Committees on Research and Graduate\nEducation and the University Library, 25 May 1995\n\n\x0cMaggie Bickford\n\n17\n\nUniversity Fellowships Selection Committee, 1995\nParticipant, \xe2\x80\x9cUnder the Elms,\xe2\x80\x9d History of Art, 1993\nMember, Doctoral Committee, Department of History, 1992-2000\nMember, Doctoral Committee, Department of Comparative Literature, 1992\nSophomore Advising 1990-91; 1994CAP advising, 1989-90; 1994Freshmen Advising, 1988\nAssist with donor development in Japan and Taiwan, 1987Assist with donor development, United States, 1987 Department of East Asian Studies, faculty member, 1987 Department Library Representative, East Asian Studies, 1990-1998 (Member, East Asian\nStudies Library Committee, 1987- )\nLiaison with the Rockefeller Library and RISD Library in collection development\nfor Asian Art, 1987-89\nRISD Museum gallery lectures for Brown East Asian Studies courses, 1987-89\nRISD Museum liaison with Brown South Asian group, 1987-89\nDepartment:\nLectureship Grant Application 2010\nUndergraduate Prize Committee 2011\nGraduate Admissions Committee 2010\nTenure Committee, Herv\xc3\xa9 Vanel 2010 Graduate Admissions Committee 2008\nUndergraduate Prize Committee, 2007\nChair, Department of Art and Architecture, 2002 - 2005\nSearch Committee, Andrea Rosenthal Chair in History of Art and Architecture, 2004-05\nSearch Committee, Joukowsky Post-Doctoral Fellow (Chair) 2003- 2004\nGraduate Admissions Committee, 2000/2001\nResearch Roundtable Seminar Participant, 2004, 2001, 1994, 1992\nComputer Committee of One, 1990-95; 1999Search Committee, Joukowsky Post-Doctoral Fellow (Chair), 1998\nGraduate Supervisor, 1995-1998\nSearch Committee, Departmental Administrative Assistant, 1996\nSearch Committee, Renaissance 1993-94\nSupervisor, exhibition, The Crawford Bequest: Chinese Art at the Museum of Art,\nRhode Island School of Design, Bell Gallery, Brown University,\nFebruary 6 - March 14, 1993\nSearch Committee (18th/19th Century) European Painting, 1989-90\nGraduate Supervisor, Semester II, 1989-90\nActing Director, Program in History of Art & Architecture, July-August, 1989\nConcentration Advising, 1988-90\nArt History Committee, 1987Professional Memberships and Service:\nEvaluator, Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure, University of Toronto,\nDepartment of Art 2011\nEvaluator, Promotion to Associate Professor with Tenure, University of Michigan (Ann\nArbor), History Department 2010\nEvaluator, Promotion to Professor with tenure, Harvard University 2009\nEvaluator, Promotion to Associate Professor with tenure, McMaster University 2009\n\n\x0cMaggie Bickford\n\n18\n\nEvaluator, Promotion to Associate Professor with tenure, Vanderbilt University 2007\nConsultant, Cornell University Press, 2007\nEvaluator, appointment with tenure, Princeton 2007\nPanelist, NEH Fellowships, July 2006\n\xe2\x80\x9cTraversing Media and Remodeling Motifs in East Asian Art\xe2\x80\x9d ( Convener, Keynote\nspeech, and Discussant), The P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian\nArt at Princeton University 2006 Graduate Student Symposium, Princeton, 18 Feb\n2006\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Kawai Japan Arts and Culture Roundtable,\xe2\x80\x9d Co-organizer with James McClain; comoderator, \xe2\x80\x9cThe Arts and Literature\xe2\x80\x9d Panel; 16 State-of-the-field presentations\nand discussions by academics and museum curators. Brown University, 28\nJanuary 2006\nEvaluator, Tenure and Promotion, 2005\nEvaluator, Renewal, Promotion and Tenure, 2004\nExaminer/Interviewer, China Prize Fellowship, Yale University, May 13 May 2002\nWayland Collegium, 1999Association for Asian Studies\nCollege Art Association\nConsultant, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, 2001\nConsultant, Art Bulletin, 2000Consultant, Journal of Sung Yuan Studies, 2000\nMember, Visual Dimensions of China Seminar, Institute for Advanced Study 1998-99\nInaugural China initiative seminar at IAS\nMember, Gallery Committee, China Institute in America, 1996-2004\nConsultant, University of Washington Press, 1998 Consultant, Council on East Asian Studies Publications, Harvard University, 1995Consultant, CLEAR, Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews, 1995Consultant, Ars Orientalis, 1994Evaluator, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1993Organizer and host (in cooperation with Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design\nCostume and Textile Department), meeting of New England East Asian Art\nHistory Seminar, Providence, February, 1993, in conjunction with the Crawford\nExhibition\nConsultant on appointment with tenure, promotion and renewal, 1988-90\nConsultant, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1988Consultant on East Asian art manuscripts and project development to George Braziller,\nGeorge Braziller, Inc., New York, 1987 Organizer and leader, art study group of scholars in the field of the history of Chinese art:\n1988 (June/July) People\'s Republic of China\nShanxi, Shaanxi and Gansu Provinces - examination of wall paintings, sculpture,\narchitecture; visits to provincial and site museums, group discussions with\nDirector and staff of Dunhuang Research Institute.\nBeijing - special viewings of materials related to individual research of members,\ndiscussions with Palace Museum Deputy Director and staff.\nBeijing and Shanxi - private meetings with Cultural Relics Bureau officials\nregarding proposed China/United States publications and exhibitions.\n\n\x0cMaggie Bickford\n\n19\n\n1985 (October) Taiwan and People\'s Republic of China. National Palace Museum,\nTaipei; Palace Museum, Beijing; exhibitions, private viewings of materials\nrelevant to individual research at each museum.\n1984 (October) People\'s Republic of China Five museums holding China\'s largest\npainting collections: Shanghai, Nanjing,\nLiaoning, Tianjin, Palace\nMuseum, exhibitions, private viewings at each institution.\nCommunity:\nExhibition: Supervisor, undergraduate-curated Chinese New Years Exhibition (\xe2\x80\x9cThe\nShape of Good Fortune: Welcoming the year of the Dragon\xe2\x80\x9d), List Lobby,\n2011-2012\nLecture Series: \xe2\x80\x9cInnovation/Adaptation 5000 Years of Making Art in China\xe2\x80\x9d (Robert\nBagley, Princeton; Jenny So, CUHK; Fran\xc3\xa7ois Louis, Bard; Jan Stuart, British\nMuseum; Craig Clunas, Oxford; Hao Sheng, Museum of fine Arts Boston) 2011 2012\n\xe2\x80\x9cPotting for Eternity: The Terra Cotta Army of the First Emperor of China,\xe2\x80\x9d Pottery\nand Porcelain Club/RISD Museum, 11 February 2009\n\xe2\x80\x9cEloquent Objects: Using Archaeologically Excavated Materials to teach about\nAncient and Early China,\xe2\x80\x9d National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA)\nK-12 teachers workshop, 25 October2008, Brown\n\xe2\x80\x9cEarly Books in China,\xe2\x80\x9d Bartlett Society, Brown, John Hay Library, 28 November 2007\nPublic Program. \xe2\x80\x9cHuizong and the Culture of Northern Song China\xe2\x80\x9d Brown University,\nList Art Center, 1 December 2001:\nMORNING SESSION, Richard Davis, Brown University, Chair; Patricia Ebrey,\nUniversity of Washington, \xe2\x80\x9cHuizong\xe2\x80\x99s Stone Inscriptions\xe2\x80\x9d; Maggie Bickford,\nBrown University, \xe2\x80\x9cHuizong\xe2\x80\x99s Paintings: Art and the Art of Emperorship\xe2\x80\x9d\nDiscussants: Marilyn Wong Gleysteen, Independent Scholar; Robert E. Harrist,\nJr., Columbia University; Julia K. Murray, University of Wisconsin\nAFTERNOON SESSION, Dore J. Levy, Brown University, Chair; Joseph Lam,\nUniversity of Michigan, \xe2\x80\x9cHuizong\xe2\x80\x99s Musical Performance of Emperorship\xe2\x80\x9d; Asaf\nGoldschmidt, Tel Aviv University, \xe2\x80\x9cEmperor Huizong\xe2\x80\x99s Impact on Public Health\nand Elite Medicine\xe2\x80\x9d; Discussants: John Chaffee, SUNY Binghamton; Charles\nHartman, SUNY Albany; Paul Smith, Haverford College\n\xe2\x80\x9cIf Wishes were Pictures: Art and Good Fortune in China.\xe2\x80\x9d Brown Humanities Institute,\n16 May 2000\nMargaret B. Stillwell Book Collecting Competition (John Russell Bartlett Society,\nStudent book collection prize). Judge 1998.\nAsian-American History Month, 1996\n\xe2\x80\x9cThe Chinese Archaeological Revolution: Rethinking Early China.\xe2\x80\x9d Brown\nUniversity, 12 November 1996. Sponsored by Chinese Students Association\nand Chinese Culture and Language Corner.\nOther public programs during Asian-American History Month, 1996:\nLecture: Jerome Silbergeld, University of Washington and Harvard\nUniversity: \xe2\x80\x9cVictims, Warriors, Crusaders, Collaborators: The Female Analogy in\nRecent Chinese Cinema\xe2\x80\x9d (22 November 1996)\nVideo Viewings: The Story of Qiu Ju (13 November); Farewell My Concubine\n(18 November); Women from the Lake of Scented Souls (20 November)\n\xe2\x80\x9cEarly Chinese Art,\xe2\x80\x9d Burrillville High School, Harrisville, RI, (Freshman Humanities\nProgram, funded by Rhode Island Committee on the Humanities) 1 Dec. 1994.\n\n\x0cMaggie Bickford\n\n20\n\nPublic programs in conjunction with the Crawford exhibition, in cooperation with the\nBell Gallery and the Departments of History and East Asian Studies:\nLectures: Warren Cohen, Michigan State University and University of Maryland,\nBaltimore: \xe2\x80\x9cThe Collecting of Chinese Art and American Foreign\nRelations\xe2\x80\x9d (Feb. 12, 1993); Jonathan Spence, Yale University"Bertolucci\'s\nThe Last Emperor \xe2\x80\x9c(Feb. 18, 1993)\nFilm: The Last Emperor, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci (Feb 16, 1993)\nSymposium: The Art and Architecture of Imperial China (Feb. 27, 1993)\nTerese Tse Bartholomew, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco,\n\xe2\x80\x9cDeciphering Bats: Auspicious Meanings in Chinese Art;\xe2\x80\x9d Wu Tung,\nMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston, \xe2\x80\x9cTravels of the Imagination: Objects of\nthe Scholar\'s Studio;\xe2\x80\x9d Robert H. Ellsworth, New York City, \xe2\x80\x9cBaolunge:\na Sixteenth-Century Family Temple and Treasure;\xe2\x80\x9d Robert Mowry,\nHarvard University Art Museums and Department of Fine Arts, Harvard\nUniversity, \xe2\x80\x9cTradition and Innovation in Later Chinese Jade.\xe2\x80\x9d\nAlso See Above: Public Lectures, Exhibitions, and Curatorial Activities\nLANGUAGES\nModern Chinese: proficient reading, speaking\nClassical Chinese: proficient reading\nJapanese: proficient reading, adequate speaking\nFrench, Italian, German: reading\nRev. Dec 2011'