应北京大学“大学堂”讲学计划的邀请,享誉世界的英国艺术史学家、考古学家、汉学家、牛津大学教授杰西卡·罗森爵士(Professor Dame Jessica Rawson),将于2024年5月9日—6月3日访问北京大学,并发表系列演讲,与国内从事考古学、艺术史等领域研究的学者展开对话交流。
主办单位:
北京大学
承办单位:
北京大学考古文博学院
北京大学国际合作部
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第四场讲座信息:
主题:大英博物馆亚洲展厅:讲述中国古代故事的重要舞台
The Asian Galleries in the British Museum and their role in spreading information and understanding of China’s ancient cultures today
时间:5月31日(周五)19:00-21:00
地点:北京大学哲学楼101
主持人:
徐天进
北京大学考古文博学院 教授
良渚博物院 院长
内容预告:
最后一场讲座将介绍主讲人早年在大英博物馆的一些经历,同时也会回应前三场讲座中讨论过的一些主题。
讲座首先将介绍大英博物馆及馆内丰富多样的藏品。目前博物馆内的藏品主要包括世界各地的艺术品与文物,但在18世纪创建博物馆之时,还包括动物、昆虫、岩石等自然类藏品,现在它们都收藏在自然历史博物馆。此外,当时馆内超过一半的空间用于存放手稿和书籍,目前它们已被移交大英图书馆。
1977年,大英博物馆馆长让主讲人组织一场关于动物形象的展览,包括绘画、雕塑、雕刻、钱币等各类文物。主讲人可以自由地策展,在不同部门主管的配合下选择需要的展品,并得以参观博物馆所有部门的库房,获得了很多信息和宝贵的经验。
1982-1984年,主讲人荣幸为大英博物馆的特展厅策划一个主题展览。该展览内容的中文版已经以《莲与龙》为题出版。主讲人曾经长期关注元明时期青花瓷上的花卉图案,在古代地中海地区可见相似的纹样。由于这些卷曲的纹样与完整的建筑要素组合一同传播,主讲人最终得以追溯它们与佛教一起穿越欧亚大陆的旅程。
版画与绘画部藏品则讲述了另一个故事。它们展现出中国发明的造纸术和印刷术是非常重大的进步,涉及佛教、祆教、伊斯兰教和基督教,改变了欧亚大陆各地的社会。这些藏品中还可看到中国园林石的图像,以及它们对西方版画甚至西方建筑的影响。
This last lecture describes some of my early experiences at the British Museum but also refers to some of the major topics I discussed in the three other talks. It is in four parts.
Part 1 introduces the British Museum and the range of the many different collections in the museum. They include world art and archaeology today. But when the museum was founded in the 18th century it also included animals, insects and rocks, that is, the natural world, now in the Natural History Museum. More than half of the building was occupied by manuscripts and books, now transferred to the British Library.
Part 2. In 1977, the director asked me to organise an exhibition on animals in paintings, sculpture, carving and even coins. I had free choice to design the exhibition subjects and chose the materials with the help of the curators from different departments. This was exciting, as I could visit the storage rooms of all the departments of the museum and gained a lot of information and valuable experience.
Part 3. In 1982-84 I was encouraged to suggest a topic and develop the content for the special exhibition room. The material of this exhibition has been published in Chinese as the Lotus and the Dragon. I had always been puzzled by the flower patterns on blue and white porcelains of the Yuan and Ming periods. These I found in ancient Mediterranean designs. I traced their journey across Eurasia with Buddhism, as the scrolls travelled with a complete architectural package.
Part 4. The Library and the Department of Prints and Drawings tell us a different story. Here we see the invention of both paper and printing in China. These were major advances and changed societies across Eurasia, among these were Buddhists, Sogdian Zoroastrians, Muslims and Christians. In the Prints and Drawings department we find images of Chinese garden rocks and their impact on Western prints and even Western architecture.
主讲人介绍:
杰西卡‧罗森教授(Professor Dame Jessica Rawson)是英国著名的艺术史学家、考古学家、汉学家,曾任大英博物馆东方古物部主任、牛津大学墨顿学院院长、牛津大学副校长。1990年荣膺英国国家学术院院士,2002年因其在东方研究的突出贡献获英国女王授勋封爵(DBE),2012年获选为美国艺术与科学院外籍院士,2017年获颁弗瑞尔奖章,2022年因其在中国艺术与考古领域的成就获唐奖汉学奖。
罗森教授的学术研究领域主要为中国艺术与考古,内容涵盖了整个古代中国,尤其是从考古和物质文化的角度诠释早期中国与欧亚大陆及其他文明之间的交流互动,是目前中国艺术与考古研究领域最为活跃的西方学者之一。
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