CHARM presents: “Art Beyond the Plateaus” Workshop

This workshop reevaluates the role of the Tibetan Empire in the transmission of visual and religious culture across the Himalayas, Central Asia, and China. Focusing on art as a vehicle of cultural exchange, we aim to 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 art across multiple regions. The workshop will also explore both human (political, military, 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.

Speakers:
Chiara Gasparini, Assistant Professor of History of Art, University of Oregon
David Pritzker, Pritzker Art Collaborative (Chicago)
Discussant:
Yoonah Hwang, University of Southern California

Hybrid event – Open to the public