The History of Art Department at The Ohio State University

Julia Andrews—Professor

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Professor Andrews is a specialist in Chinese painting and modern Chinese art. Her first book, Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China (1994), won the Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies for the best book of the year on modern China. She is currently working on Art in Modern China and an essay to be published in Mahjong, an exhibition catalogue for the Berkeley Art Museum. In addition to writing and teaching, she served as co-curator and catalogue author for one of the first American exhibitions of contemporary Chinese art, Fragmented Memory: The Chinese Avant-Garde in Exile, at OSU?s Wexner Center for the Arts in 1993, and of the Guggenheim Museum's 1998 exhibition, A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth Century China, shown in New York and Bilbao. In 2006, she co-organized Chinese Painting on the Eve of the Communist Revolution: Chang Shu-chi and his Collection, for Stanford?s Cantor Arts Center, and in 1997, showed original drawings from Shanghai People?s Art Publishing House in Literature in Line: Lianhuanhua from China at OSU?s Cartoon Research Library. Among her other projects have been contributions to Between the Thunder and the Rain: Chinese Paintings from the Opium Wars to the Cultural Revolution, 1840?1979 (Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 2000) and Word and Meaning: Six Contemporary Chinese Artists (Buffalo: State University of New York at Buffalo, Research Center in Art + Culture, 2000), Sanyu, l'ecriture du corps (Paris: Museé Guimet, 2004), and Schudy (Nanjing, 2006). She teaches undergraduate courses on Chinese and Japanese art and graduate seminars that usually focus on a topic in Chinese painting or modern Chinese art. Her graduate students have written theses on topics in Chinese or Japanese art of the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries.

Education

Ph.D., History of Art, University of California, Berkeley, 1984.
Senior Advanced Student, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China, 1980–1981.
M.A., Fine Arts, Harvard University, 1976.
Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Study in Taipei, 1974–1975.
B.A., Asian History, Brown University, 1973.

Publications

Articles & Essays

"Literature in Line: Picture Stories in the People's Republic of China," in Literature in Line: Lianhuanhua from China, with Kuiyi Shen, exhibition catalogue, (Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library), forthcoming.
"'The Traitor to Art' and Chinese Modernity: Liu Haisu and the Nude Model Controversy," in Images in Exchange, Richard Vinograd, ed. (Berkeley: University of California Press), forthcoming.
"Exhibition to Exhibition: Painting Practice in the Early 20th Century as a Modern Response to 'Tradition'" in Turmoil, Representation and Trends: Modern Chinese Painting, 1796–1949, International Conference, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, 2007, pp. 21–37.
"Reordering the Landscape: Li Huayi, Zhang Hong, and Twentieth-Century Chinese Painting," in Kuiyi Shen and Feng Bin eds., Reboot: The Third Chengdu Biennale (International Symposium, 2007, pp. 66–73.
"Reflections on the Study of Chinese Painting," for a forthcoming anthology on the history of the field, ed. Jason C. Kuo, University Press of Maryland, forthcoming in 2001.
"The Traditionalist Response to Modernity: The Chinese Painting Society of Shanghai," Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen," in Visual Culture in Shanghai, 1850s-1930s," ed. Jason C. Kuo, Seattle: University of Washington Press, forthcoming in 2001.
"The Ideology of Consumption: Chinese Lifestyle Magazines in the 1990s," co-authored with Kuiyi Shen, in Popular Thought in Post-Socialist China, eds. Perry Link, Richard Madsen, Paul Pickowitz (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.), forthcoming in 2000.
"White Cat, Black Cat: Chinese Art and the Politics of Deng Xiaoping," in Word and Meaning: Six Contemporary Chinese Artists, Kuiyi Shen, et al (Buffalo: State University of New York at Buffalo, Research Center in Art + Culture, 2000), pp. 19–29.
"A Shelter from the Storm: Chinese Painting in a Cataclysmic Age (1930–1980)," in Between the Thunder and the Rain: Chinese Paintings from the Opium War to the Cultural Revolution, 1840–1979 (San Francisco: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 2000), pp. 169–197. Consulting curator.
"The Shock of the New: Li Huayi, Zhang Hong, and the Reordered Landscape," with Kuiyi Shen, Kaikodo Journal, November, 1999, pp. 11–25.
"Traditionalism as a Modern Stance: The Chinese Women's Calligraphy and Painting Society of 1930s Shanghai," with Kuiyi Shen, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, vol. 11, no. 1 (spring, 1999), pp. 1–29.
"Chao Chun-hsiang and New York," in Chao Chung-hsiang (Zhao Chunxiang), exhibition curated by Alice King (Hangzhou, Zhejiang West Lake Museum; Hong Kong Arts Centre, 1999), pp. 35–38.
"Transformation of Tradition: Chinese Art from 1980 to the Present," by Shen Kuiyi and Julia Andrews (in Chinese), in Proceedings of the International Symposium in Conjunction with the Second Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai: Shanghai Art Museum, forthcoming (October 19–22, 1998).
"Let the Past Serve the Present: Modern Chinese Art and Its Histories," Orientations, Feb. 1998, pp. 62–70.
"Literature in Line: Picture Stories in the People's Republic of China," Inks: Cartoon and Comic Art Studies, vol. 4, no. 3 (Nov. 1997), pp. 17–32.
"Zhongguo nüzi shuhua hui (Revised Chinese version of 'The Chinese Women's Calligraphy and Painting Society'),"with Kuiyi Shen, Duoyun (Shanghai), vol. 47 (Dec. 1997).
"Traditional Chinese Painting in an Age of Revolution, 1911–1937: The Chinese Painting Society of Shanghai," in conference volume, Chinese Painting and the Twentieth Century: Creativity in the Aftermath of Tradition (Hangzhou: Zhejiang People's Fine Arts Press, 1997), pp. 578–595.
"Contemporary Chinese Art and the World Outside, China Exchange News: A Review of Education, Science, and Academic Relations with the PRC, vol. 23, no. 3 (fall, 1995), pp. 20–24.
"The Chinese Avant-garde's Challenge to Official Art," co-authored with Gao Minglu, in Urban Space and City Living in China, ed. Deborah Davis, Elizabeth Perry, Barry Naughton, and Richard Kraus, Washington: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 221–278.
"Traditional Painting in New China: Guohua and the Anti-Rightist Campaign," Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 49, no. 3 (Aug. 1990), pp. 555–585.
"Wang Yani and Contemporary Chinese Painting," in Waiching Ho, ed. Yani: The Brush of Innocence, New York: Hudson Hills Press and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1989, pp. 39–50.
"Zhongguo yishu zai meiguo de jingyu [The Situation of Chinese Art in America]," Meishu [Art], 1989, no. 1, pp. 61–63.
"Zhongguo meishu yu meiguo shichang [Chinese Art and the American Art Market], Part I," Zhongguo meishu bao [Fine arts in China], 1988, no. 49, p. 2.
"The Peasant's Pen: Some Thoughts on Realism in Modern Chinese Art," Search, Research, and Discovery In the Arts, The Ohio State University College of the Arts, Autumn, 1987, pp. 6–9.
Coauthor and translator, "Catalogue of the Exhibition," pp. 95–154; translator for Wang Renbo, "General Comments on Chinese Funerary Sculpture," pp. 39–61 Quest for Eternity: Chinese Ceramic Sculptures from the People's Republic of China, Los Angeles and San Francisco, 1987.
"Zha Shibiao" and, with H. Yoshida, "Theoretical Foundations of the Anhui School," in James Cahill, ed. The Shadows of Mount Huang: Painting and Printing of the Anhui School, Berkeley, 1981.

Books, Edited Volumes, & Exhibition Catalogues

"Post-Mao, Postmodern," in Mahjong: Art, Film and Change in China, ed. Julia M. White (University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2008).
Special issue on Twentieth Century Chinese Visual Culture, edited volume, with Xiaomei Chen, for Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, fall, 2000.
A Century in Crisis: Tradition and Modernity in the Art of Twentieth Century China, with Kuiyi Shen, exhibition catalogue, New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1998, 329 pp. Also published in Spanish translation as Un siglo en crisis: Modernidad y tradición en el arte de la China del siglo XX, Bilbao, Spain: Guggenheim Bilbao, 1998.
Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949–1979, Berkeley: University of California Press in Association with the Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1994, 568 pp. (Winner of the 1996 Joseph Levenson Prize for Twentieth Century China)
Fragmented Memory: The Chinese Avant-Garde in Exile, with Gao Minglu (exhibition catalogue, July 31-October 10, 1993), Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
Literature in Line: Lianhuanhua from China, with Kuiyi Shen, exhibition catalogue, Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Cartoon Research Library.
The Challenge of Modernity: Chinese Painting of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, edited volume, with Kuiyi Shen. Hangzhou: China National Academy of Arts Press.

Seminars, Lectures & Presentations

Invited Lectures

"Remaking Tradition for the Revolution: Chinese Painting Since 1949," at the M. Victor Leventritt Symposium "Chinese Painting: The Twentieth Century and Beyond," Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, November 2007.
"Japanese Oil Paintings in the First Chinese National Art Exhibition of 1929 and the Development of Asian Modernism," at the workshop The Role of Japan in the Institutional Development of Modern Chinese Art, Academia Sinica, Nangang, Taiwan, October 2007.
"Why Art History?" (delivered in Chinese), Tainan National University of the Arts, Tainan, Taiwan, October 2007.
"Chonggou shanshui: Li Huayi, Zhang Hong, yu ershi shiji zhongguo huihua" (delivered in English as "Reconstructed Landscape: Li Huayi, Zhang Hong, and Modern Chinese Painting"), International Symposium in conjunction with "Reboot: The Third Chengdu Bienniale," Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, September 2007.

Seminars

Chinese Figure Painting