
B.A., South West 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
"The Paintings of Huang Xiangjian's Filial Journey to the Southwest," Artibus Asiae 67 (2007), no. 2: 297-357.
"Visual Experience in Late-Ming Suzhou 'Honorific' and 'Famous Sites' Paintings," Ars Orientalis, forthcoming.
Exhibitions
Co-curator, "The Lady at the Window: Figure Painting in the Qing Dynasty," Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Fall 2001.
Recent Papers
"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
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
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