Jerome L. Silbergeld (born 25 April 1944 in
Highland, Illinois) is an American scholar of Chinese art history. He has taught at
Princeton University and the
University of Washington.
Education
Silbergeld received his B.A. from
Stanford University
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in 1966 and completed an M.A. in American history there in 1967. In 1966 and 1967, he served as a
United States Senate intern for
Stuart Symington. He received a second M.A. in art history from the
University of Oregon in 1972 and completed his Ph.D. in Chinese art history from
Stanford University
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in 1974.
Career
Silbergeld is the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Professor (Emeritus) of Chinese Art History at
Princeton University and was the founding director of Princeton’
Tang Center for East Asian Art He was formerly the Chair of Art History and Director of the School of Art and the
University of Washington, where he taught for twenty-five years. Silbergeld has also served as a visiting professor at
Harvard University and as a Nirit and Michael Shaoul Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at
Tel Aviv University. In 1999, he participated as a "referee" in
The Metropolitan Museum of Art symposium "Issues of Authenticity in Chinese Art," donning an referee's jersey and whistle. He is currently a visiting faculty member at the
University of Oregon, and received the school'
Ellis F. Lawrence Medalfor distinguished alumni of its College of Design in 2016.
Silbergeld's research includes traditional and modern
Chinese painting,
cinema, and
architecture and gardens. His publications include ''Chinese Painting Style'' (1982); ''Mind Landscapes: The Paintings of
C. C. Wang'' (1987); ''Contradictions: Artistic Life, the Socialist State, and the Chinese Painter
Li Huasheng
Li Huasheng (Simplified Chinese: 李华生; Hanyu Pinyin: Lǐ Huáshēng) (1944–2018) was a Chinese artist from Yibin in Sichuan province. He received his first art training in one of Chongqing's culture halls. He met Chen Zizhuang in 1972, ...
'' (1993); ''Hitchock with a Chinese Face'' (2004); ''Body in Question: Image and Illusion in Two Chinese Films by Director
Jiang Wen'' (2008); and ''Outside In: Chinese x American x Contemporary x Art'' (2009). He has also published more than sixty articles, encyclopaedia entries, and book reviews.
Personal life
He is married to Michelle DeKlyen, a clinical psychologist who specializes in early childhood development.
They have two children.
Selected publications
*''Chinese Painting Style'' (1982)
*''Mind Landscapes: The Paintings of
C. C. Wang'' (1987)
*''Contradictions: Artistic Life, the Socialist State, and the Chinese Painter
Li Huasheng
Li Huasheng (Simplified Chinese: 李华生; Hanyu Pinyin: Lǐ Huáshēng) (1944–2018) was a Chinese artist from Yibin in Sichuan province. He received his first art training in one of Chongqing's culture halls. He met Chen Zizhuang in 1972, ...
'' (1993)
*''China Into Film: Frames of Reference in Contemporary Chinese Cinema'' (1999)
*''Hitchock with a Chinese Face'' (2004)
*"Changing Views of Change: The Song-Yuan Transition in Chinese Painting Histories," in ''Asian Art History in the Twenty-first Century,'' edited by Vishakha Desai (2007)
*''Body in Question: Image and Illusion in Two Chinese Films by Director
Jiang Wen'' (2008)
*''Outside In: Chinese x American x Contemporary x Art'' (2009)
*''Humanism in China: A Contemporary Record of Photography'' (2009)
*"All Receding Together, One Hundred Slanting Lines: Replication, Variation, and Some Fundamental Problems in the Study of Chinese Paintings of Architecture," in ''Masterpieces of Ancient Chinese Paintings: Paintings from the Tang to Yuan Dynasty in Japanese and Chinese Collections'' (2010)
*''Bridges to Heaven: Essays in East Asian Art in Honor of
Wen C. Fong'' (2 volumes, 2011), editor
*"Cinema and the Visual Arts of China," in ''A Companion to Chinese Cinema,'' edited by Yingjin Zhang (2012)
*"First Lines, Final Scenes in Text, Handscroll, and Chinese Cinema," in ''Looking at Asian Art,'' edited by Katherine Tsiang and Martin Powers (2012)
References
External links
Faculty page at Princeton University*Princeton University, Office of the Dean of the Faculty
"Jerome Silbergeld"Ellis F. Lawrence Medal - Jerome Silbergeld
*UCLA Center For Chinese Studies
"Myths My Teachers Believed about Song-Yuan Painting"
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Living people
1944 births
American art historians
Historians of East Asian art
Princeton University faculty
Stanford University alumni
University of Oregon alumni