Center of the Art of East Asia in the Art History Department at the
University of Chicago is pleased to announce its second annual symposium.

Looking Modern: East Asian Visual Culture from the Treaty Ports to World
War II

This symposium examines multiple dimensions of visual modernity in East
Asia from the end of the nineteenth century through the early decades of
twentieth. We hope to throw new light on previously understudied aspects
of the visual culture of this crucial period in recent history and
encourage new perspectives for future work. The symposium will coincide
with the opening of the exhibition, Taisho Chic: Japanese Modernity,
Nostalgia, and Deco at the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at the
University of Chicago.

Looking Modern symposium will be held on April 23-24, 2004 at the Franke
Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, 1100 E. 57th Street,
Chicago, IL 60637.

Admission to the symposium will be free; however we strongly encourage
registration in advance, as seating will be limited. For registration,
please provide your name, address, and contact information to Wei-Cheng
Lin at wlinuchicago.edu Other symposium related information, the updated
program, and paper abstracts are available at the Center website,
http://caea.uchicago.edu/News.htm

The symposium is co-sponsored by The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art,
the Japan Committee and the China Committee of the Center for East Asian
Studies, and the Adelyn Russell Bogert Fund of the Franke Institute for
the Humanities at the University of Chicago.

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