| Title: | Professor |
| Year of Birth: | 1950 |
| Address: | Department of History in Art, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700 STN CSC, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 2Y2 Canada |
| Email: | kliscomb@ finearts.uvic.ca |
| Specialty: | Specialization-history of Chinese arts-often of the Ming period. Currently studying hour historical poets were constructed as icons of popular culture by generations of artists working in diverse media, authors writing in Classical and vernacular Chinese, and performance artists. Examining evidence for ways powerful Ming dynasty officials enhanced their prestige and strengthened elite group identity through their own eulogistic writings and the paintings and prints they commissioned to complement such texts. |
| Publications: | Learning from Mt. Hua: A Chinese Physician’s Illustrated Travel Record and Painting Theory. Res Monographs in Anthropology and Aesthetics, no.3, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993 “The Eight Views of Beijing: Politics in Literati Art.” Artibus Asiae 49 (1988-89): 127-152 “The Role of Leading Court Officials as Patrons of Painting in the Fifteenth Century.” Ming Studies, no. 27(1989): 34-62 “Shen Zhou’s Collection of Early Ming Paintings and the Origins of the Wu School’s Eclectic Revivalism.” Artibus Asiae 52 (1993): 215-252 “A Collection of Painting and Calligraphy Discovered in the Inner Coffin of Wang Zhen (d. 1495 C.E.),” Archives of Asian Art 47 (1994): 6-34 “The Power of Quiet Witting at Night: Shen Zhou’s (1427-1509) Night Vigil,” Monumenta Serica 43 (1995): 381-403 “Social Status and Art Collecting: A Comparison of the Collections of Shen Zhou and Wang Zhen,” The Art Bulletin 78 (1996): 111-136 “Li Bai, a Hero Among Poets, in the Visual, Dramatic, and Literary Arts of China,” The Art Bulletin 81 (September 1999) 354-389 |