Robert E. Harrist (born 1951) is Jane and Leopold Swergold Professor of Chinese Art History at
Columbia University
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. His book, ''The Landscape of Words'', was awarded the
Joseph Levenson Prize in 2010. He was
Slade Professor of Fine Art
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History
The chairs were founded concurrently in 1869 by a bequest from the art collecto ...
at the University of Cambridge for 2006–07.
Selected publications
* ''Power and Virtue: The Horse in Chinese Art''. Art Media Resources, 1997.
* ''Painting and Private Life in Eleventh-Century China: Mountain Villa by Li Gonglin''. Princeton University Press, 1998.
* ''The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection''. Art Museum at Princeton University, 1999.
* ''The Landscape of Words''. University of Washington Press, 2008.
References
External links
*https://tang.princeton.edu/tang-center-lecture-series/robert-e-harrist-jr
*http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/faculty/Harrist/Harrist-resume.pdf
Columbia University faculty
Living people
1951 births
Slade Professors of Fine Art (University of Cambridge)
American art historians
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