B.A., Missouri State University
M.A., Ph.D., University of Kansas

Specialization: Chinese Art

Elizabeth Kindall's research focus is Chinese art, specifically Chinese painting from the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Her current projects investigate the functional visual experiences captured in certain paintings of real places through examinations of their distinctive topographical vocabulary and site-specific views.

Publications

"Visual Experience in Late-Ming Suzhou 'Honorific' and 'Famous Sites' Paintings," Ars Orientalis 36 (2009) 137-177.

"The Paintings of Huang Xiangjian's Filial Journey to the Southwest," Artibus Asiae 67 (2007), no. 2: 297-357.

Exhibitions

Co-curator, "The Lady at the Window: Figure Painting in the Qing Dynasty," Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Fall 2001.

Recent Papers

"Art Historical Field Notes: The Experience of 'The Site'." College Art Association Annual Meeting, New York City, February 10, 2011

"The Filial Son of Suzhou: Huang Xiangjian," Suzhou Museum, Suzhou China, June 20, 2009.

"The Filial Campaign of Huang Xiangjian," Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, St. Olaf College and Carleton College, October 11, 2008.

"Recreating the Pilgrimage Experience in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Painting: Circumambulating Mount Jizu," guest lecture, Missouri State University, April 20, 2007.

"Local Geography in a 1656 Painting of Mount Jizu," paper delivered at the International Symposium on Chinese Local History, Salt Lake City, Utah, November 5, 2004.

Recent Research Grants

Junior Scholar Grant, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange, 2010 

Research Travel Grant, Universitiy of Utah Department of Art and Art History, 2005

Dissertation Research Grant, Asian Cultural Council, 2004

Dissertation Research Grant, Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies, Tokyo, 1999-2000

Louise Wallace Hackney Fellowship for the Study of Chinese Art, American Oriental Society, 1998-1999