Asian Studies is co-sponsoring this event with The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at UMBC.
                   
Room 132 in the Performing Arts & Humanities Building

Dr. Alfreda Murck, historian of Chinese visual culture, will present a lecture on the work of Lo Ch'ing, the Poet-Painter. Her lecture seeks to place the artist in the context of the millennia-long tradition of Chinese Landscape Painting and coincides with the CADVC's current exhibition, The Poet's Brush: Chinese Ink Paintings by Lo Ch'ing.

Formerly the Associate Curator of Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (1978 to 1991), Dr. Murck is the author of Poetry and Painting in Song China: The Subtle Art of Dissent (Harvard, 2000). She has published numerous articles in English and Chinese on China's visual arts and poetry, and co-curated the exhibition Mao's Golden Mangoes and the Cultural Revolution at The Museum Reitburg.

In 2015, for the book William Kentridge: Notes towards a Model Opera, and exhibition at the Ullen's Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, she wrote "Kentridge and Chinese Painting". For the San Francisco Asian Art Museum's 2016 exhibition catalogue Emperor's Treasures: Chinese Art from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, she contributed an essay "A Millennium of Imperial Collecting and Patronage".

Dr. Murck received her Ph.D in Chinese Art and Archeology from Princeton University. From 1991 to 2013, She lived in Taiwan and China. In Beijing, she was a consultant to the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City and a researcher at their Painting and Calligraphy Research Center. From 2000 to 2013, Dr, Murck worked with The Henry Luce Foundation on a series of workshops supporting the development of western art history as a discipline in China.