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EMPIRE LINESFreud: El Mago de los Sueños (The Wizard of Dreams), Vidas Ilustres Comic Book (1963)Jamie Ruers, Mariano Ben Plotkin, and Mariano Ruperthuz Honorato, from the Freud Museum in London, reinterpret psychoanalysis through 20th century Latin American pop culture, relocating the practice in radio shows, surrealist photographs, women’s magazines, and comic books from the 1960s, like Freud: El Mago de los Sueños (The Wizard of Dreams).
Psychoanalysis is often considered a practice of the Global North, starting in Sigmund Freud’s home in Vienna before World War II. But South America has been at the forefront of the practice since the end of the 20th century, where it is is even...2024-02-0117 min
EMPIRE LINESRed-Figure Hydria of Oedipus and the Sphinx, Ancient Greece (380-360BCE) (EMPIRE LINES x Freud Museum London)Professors Miriam Leonard and Daniel Orrells, curators at the Freud Museum London, dig into the Austrian’s collection of ancient objects, and how archaeology shaped his approach to psychoanalysis in the 20th century.
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) simultaneously pioneered both psychoanalysis and global antiquity. Fascinated by classical cultures, he collected objects across space and time, from Ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt, finding interconnections across the Mediterranean and Middle East. Freud challenged historical precedents - posing Moses as an Egyptian, not a Jew - but he also appropriated classical history to legitimate his practice, and reckon with ideas like the...2023-04-0609 min
Dan Snow's History HitZheng He: The Ming Dynasty ExplorerThe Ming Dynasty emerged in the second half of the 14th century, having achieved a hard-won victory over the declining Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty. Admiral Zheng He, a Muslim of Mongol descent, was born into this turmoil in a far-flung, frontier province of the Ming empire. Yet by the early 15th century, he had been made the commander-in-chief of some of the most extravagant and far-reaching naval voyages in history. How did a Muslim eunuch ascend to a position of such power in the Ming court? Where did these vast voyages take him, and how is he considered in China...2023-01-1928 min
違章女生lalaLandS8 EP12｜「看」的千百種方法——進入藝術品研究者的觀看世界 ft. 賴毓芝、張惠菁#喜歡節目內容歡迎訂閱及分享 本集聆聽重點：四位文學、藝術史研究者齊聚一個房間，蹦出的對話火花絕對精彩！（也絕對比你想像的熱鬧！） 在《物見：四十八位物件的閱讀者，與他們所見的世界》一書中，牛津大學藝術史名譽教授柯律格（Craig Clunas）這樣寫道—— 「我那時的日記上紀錄著：『……接著前往史賓塞博物館看明代畫作，〈古柏圖〉上的小墨點很動人，〈北溟圖〉的精準也令人感到謙卑。真是美好的東西，美好的東西。』第二天的日記上也寫著：『……我又看了一次展覽，離去時，想到我可能永遠不會再見到這些畫，覺得很感傷。』」 能夠觀看、甚至觸碰到物品，對於藝術史研究者來說是至關重要的，同樣的外觀可能永遠不同的重量，同樣的圖在正確的光源下呈現出的意義也絕對與數位掃描有關鍵性的不同。 想想，當Covid-19阻隔世界的交通，藝術史學者被迫只能待在家中書房中，他們該如何向大眾闡述他們過往曾傾注心力觀看、研究的物件？ 本集節目邀請到《物見》一書的總策劃賴毓芝、與總編張惠菁，來和小光、顏訥暢聊「觀看」的方式，他們從文徵明的《古柏圖》、乾隆朝《獸譜》中的「開明獸」，談到黃土水的《甘露水》，絕對讓你聽得意猶未盡！ 也非常強烈推薦《物見：四十八位物件的閱讀者，與他們所見的世界》這本書，裡面聚集 48 位研究者，跳脫論文的框架，誠實面對各種寫作和研究的不完整性，把他們最直接而真摯的觀看與思考物件歷程呈現給大家。 《物見：四十八位物件的閱讀者，與他們所見的世界》 作者：總策畫／賴毓芝；作者群 / 柯律格、賴毓芝⋯⋯等 譯者：胡宗香, 薛芸如, 洪婕憶, 劉琨華 出版社：遠足文化 購書連結：https://bit.ly/3GeARxp 留言告訴我你對這一集的想法： https://open.firstory.me/user/cl4y18yp601sh01t9842ahl14/comments 我們有 IG 喔！還沒有加入的朋友趕快追起來！ 違章女生 lalaLand https://www.instagram.com/atypicalgirl_lalaland/ 主持人 李屏瑤 https://www.facebook.com/HikaruPhototropism/ 客座主持人 顏訥 https://www.instagram.com/nayensophia/ 片頭曲創作、演唱：鄭宜農 製作人：李屏瑤 節目監製｜ 凱特文化 K.A.T.E Publishing/Integrate Marketing ✉️ 通告、宣傳、專訪合作等事宜 ➠ katedog@ms35.hinet.net ✉️ 廣告合作邀約 ➠ katedog@ms35.hinet.net Powered by Firstory Hosting2022-11-1545 min
Wonders of the World096 - The Humble Administrator's Garden of SuzhouHe was from the richest city in Ming China, or one of the richest, and after his checkered political career, he came home and planted a garden. 500 years later, we can still visit his garden and marvel at the humility of Wang Xianchen, the Humble Administrator. This episode is a pleasant diversion beforewe get back to the big stories. And we'll have Suzhou "smoked" fish while we're here! Sources: Clunas, Craig. Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China Lonely Planet China Photograph CC4.0 by wikicommons user Another Believer 2022-08-1823 min
EMPIRE LINESPierced Jade Scholar's Screen, China (19th Century) (EMPIRE LINES x Freud Museum Interview)For EMPIRE LINES’ 40th episode, Professor Craig Clunas dials in from London’s Freud Museum to discuss their latest exhibition, Freud and China, shrinking the international networks of psychoanalysis.Smuggled out of Nazi-occupied Austria before World War II, Sigmund Freud's Chinese jade screen was amongst his most prized antiquities. Much like his chow dogs and cherry blossom trees, these modern objects were taken as historic, decorative, and academic goods, exposing European ideas about Asia in the 19th century.Practicing from the multi-ethnic Habsburg Empire, Freud became a global celebrity as the founder of psychoanalysis, a ment...2022-04-1424 min
The Translated Chinese Fiction PodcastEp 69 - Xue Mo and The Women, the Camels, and the Dholes with Sarah Lam and Nicola ClaytonYou couldn’t get to grips with fate, but the enemy you could see and touch was your own bodyIn the sixty ninth episode of The Translated Chinese Fiction Podcast we are riding with The Women, the Camels, and the Dholes, one of the stories contained within the Selected Stories of Xue Mo (雪漠小说精选 / Xuěmò Xiǎoshuō Jīngxuǎn). Two women are joining me on this trek: audiobook producer Nicola Clayton and voice actor Sarah Lam. In this tale we get material, we get Buddhist, we get into self-help, and we get really close to death...-...2022-03-091h 39
Chinese WhispersFreud and China: a love affairThis episode of Chinese Whispers is slightly different – instead of taking a look at a theme within China, my guest and I will be seeing China through the eyes of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Professor Craig Clunas, chair of art history at Oxford University, has curated a new exhibition at London’s Freud Museum, which displays Freud’s collection of Chinese antiquities. On this episode, I talk to Craig about what these pieces – jades and figurines – meant to Freud, especially in the context of 20th century Europe, where there was appreciation of Chinese art but, as we discuss, not quite the matchi...2022-03-0740 min
The Long ViewWhen Things Fall ApartJonathan Freedland explores the past behind the present. In the last of this long view of the future we ask when do civilizations & systems know that things cannot go on as they are. When do the rulers and the ruled sense the game is up? Historians Craig Clunas summon up the last days of the Ming Dynasty of the 17th Century, Maria Fusaro considers how the Venetian Republic registered its waning powers & end days in the 18th Century and Anthony Badger explores the existential crisis of America in 1933-would it survive as a democracy, could it be reformed & avoid...2022-03-0727 min
Arts & IdeasChina, Freud, war and sci fiThe bombing of Chongqing, Freud’s collection of ancient Chinese artefacts, the boom in science fiction amongst Chinese readers and an increasingly influential generation of educated tech-savvy millennials. We look at how Chinese culture and history looks different, when we look at it through the eyes of Chinese readers and writers, its innovators and its consumers.Freud and China is curated by Craig Clunas, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art at the University of Oxford and it runs at the Freud Museum in London from 12th February to 26th June 2022.Melissa Fu’s novel Peac...2022-02-1644 min
In Our Time: CultureJourney to the WestMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great novels of China’s Ming era, and perhaps the most loved. Written in 1592, it draws on the celebrated travels of a real monk from China to India a thousand years before, and on a thousand years of retellings of that story, especially the addition of a monkey as companion who, in the novel, becomes supersimian. For most readers the monk, Tripitaka, is upstaged by this irrepressible Monkey with his extraordinary powers, accompanied by the fallen but recovering deities, Pigsy and Sandy.The image above, from the caricature series Yo...2021-05-2051 min
RSDS RADIO SOCIETÀ DEI SOGNIJourney to the WestMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great novels of China’s Ming era, and perhaps the most loved. Written in 1592, it draws on the celebrated travels of a real monk from China to India a thousand years before, and on a thousand years of retellings of that story, especially the addition of a monkey as companion who, in the novel, becomes supersimian. For most readers the monk, Tripitaka, is upstaged by this irrepressible Monkey with his extraordinary powers, accompanied by the fallen but recovering deities, Pigsy and Sandy.The image above, from the caricature series Yoshitoshi ry...2021-05-2051 min
In Our TimeJourney to the WestMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the great novels of China’s Ming era, and perhaps the most loved. Written in 1592, it draws on the celebrated travels of a real monk from China to India a thousand years before, and on a thousand years of retellings of that story, especially the addition of a monkey as companion who, in the novel, becomes supersimian. For most readers the monk, Tripitaka, is upstaged by this irrepressible Monkey with his extraordinary powers, accompanied by the fallen but recovering deities, Pigsy and Sandy.The image above, from the caricature series Yo...2021-05-2051 min
In Our TimeLi ShizhenMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Li Shizhen (1518-1593) whose compendium of natural medicines is celebrated in China as the most complete survey of natural remedies of its time. He trained as a doctor and worked at the Ming court before spending almost 30 years travelling in China, inspecting local plants and animals for their properties, trying them out on himself and then describing his findings in his Compendium of Materia Medica or Bencao Gangmu, in 53 volumes. He's been called the uncrowned king of Chinese naturalists, and became a scientific hero in the 20th century after the...2019-11-2851 min
In Our Time: HistoryLi ShizhenMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Li Shizhen (1518-1593) whose compendium of natural medicines is celebrated in China as the most complete survey of natural remedies of its time. He trained as a doctor and worked at the Ming court before spending almost 30 years travelling in China, inspecting local plants and animals for their properties, trying them out on himself and then describing his findings in his Compendium of Materia Medica or Bencao Gangmu, in 53 volumes. He's been called the uncrowned king of Chinese naturalists, and became a scientific hero in the 20th century after...2019-11-2851 minRSDS RADIO SOCIETÀ DEI SOGNILi ShizhenMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Li Shizhen (1518-1593) whose compendium of natural medicines is celebrated in China as the most complete survey of natural remedies of its time. He trained as a doctor and worked at the Ming court before spending almost 30 years travelling in China, inspecting local plants and animals for their properties, trying them out on himself and then describing his findings in his Compendium of Materia Medica or Bencao Gangmu, in 53 volumes. He's been called the uncrowned king of Chinese naturalists, and became a scientific hero in the 20th century after the...2019-11-2851 minIn Our TimeLi ShizhenMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and ideas of Li Shizhen (1518-1593) whose compendium of natural medicines is celebrated in China as the most complete survey of natural remedies of its time. He trained as a doctor and worked at the Ming court before spending almost 30 years travelling in China, inspecting local plants and animals for their properties, trying them out on himself and then describing his findings in his Compendium of Materia Medica or Bencao Gangmu, in 53 volumes. He's been called the uncrowned king of Chinese naturalists, and became a scientific hero in the 20th century after...2019-11-2851 min
Princeton UP Ideas PodcastCraig Clunas, “Chinese Painting and Its Audiences” (Princeton UP, 2017)In his latest book, Chinese Painting and Its Audiences published in 2017 by Princeton University Press, Craig Clunas puts to question the entire concept of “Chinese painting” by looking at how this category is in fact a creation of its viewers. The book, which expanded on the A. W. Mellon...2018-04-051h 14
New Books in ArtCraig Clunas, “Chinese Painting and Its Audiences” (Princeton UP, 2017)In his latest book, Chinese Painting and Its Audiences published in 2017 by Princeton University Press, Craig Clunas puts to question the entire concept of “Chinese painting” by looking at how this category is in fact a creation of its viewers. The book, which expanded on the A. W. Mellon lecture series Clunas gave at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC in 2012, was selected as one of the best art books of 2017 by The New York Times.
The engaging and lavishly illustrated book draws on some familiar material but more importantly on a wide range of prev...2018-04-051h 16
New Books in Museum StudiesCraig Clunas, “Chinese Painting and Its Audiences” (Princeton UP, 2017)In his latest book, Chinese Painting and Its Audiences published in 2017 by Princeton University Press, Craig Clunas puts to question the entire concept of “Chinese painting” by looking at how this category is in fact a creation of its viewers. The book, which expanded on the A. W. Mellon lecture series Clunas gave at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC in 2012, was selected as one of the best art books of 2017 by The New York Times.The engaging and lavishly illustrated book draws on some familiar material but more importantly on a wide range of prev...2018-04-051h 16
Thinking with Things: The Oxford CollectionPortrait of Mademoiselle Claus by Édouard ManetAre Eastern Art and Western Art basically the same, and what is painting for? On Édouard Manet, Cézanne and their similarity to Chinese paintings. With Professor Craig Clunas Art History, University of Oxford. Object number: WA2012.532017-01-2303 min
Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and CambridgeThe Past and its PublicsSimon Schama, Craig Clunas and Margaret MacMillan tackle the thorny question of how the past should interact with the public, or publics, who consume it. Simon Schama (Professor of Art History and History at Columbia University), Craig Clunas (Professor of the History of Art, University of Oxford) and Margaret MacMillan (Professor of International History, University of Oxford)2016-05-201h 20
Royal Academy of ArtsAi Weiwei and the stuff of Chinese artAi Weiwei has used and reused a wide range of materials throughout his career, including Han dynasty urns as well as modern porcelain sunflower seeds, and the columns of demolished Ming temples alongside pearls and plastics, marble and gilding.
In this podcast, Craig Clunas, Professor of Art History at the University of Oxford, explores this materiality in the context of Chinese art of the past and present.2016-03-2200 min
Royal Academy of Arts (archive)The Stuff of Chinese ArtIn this podcast, art historian Professor Craig Clunas looks at the cultural role of materials in the art of Ai Weiwei.2015-11-2047 min
In Our Time: ReligionMatteo Ricci and the Ming DynastyMelvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit priest who in the 16th century led a Christian mission to China. An accomplished scholar, Ricci travelled extensively and came into contact with senior officials of the Ming Dynasty administration. His story is one of the most important encounters between Renaissance Europe and a China which was still virtually closed to outsiders.With Mary Laven
Reader in Early Modern History at the University of CambridgeCraig Clunas
Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford...2015-04-1645 minIn Our Time: HistoryMatteo Ricci and the Ming DynastyMelvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit priest who in the 16th century led a Christian mission to China. An accomplished scholar, Ricci travelled extensively and came into contact with senior officials of the Ming Dynasty administration. His story is one of the most important encounters between Renaissance Europe and a China which was still virtually closed to outsiders.With Mary Laven
Reader in Early Modern History at the University of CambridgeCraig Clunas
Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford...2015-04-1645 min
In Our Time: HistoryMatteo Ricci and the Ming DynastyMelvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit priest who in the 16th century led a Christian mission to China. An accomplished scholar, Ricci travelled extensively and came into contact with senior officials of the Ming Dynasty administration. His story is one of the most important encounters between Renaissance Europe and a China which was still virtually closed to outsiders.
With
Mary Laven
Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge
Craig Clunas
Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford
and
Anne Gerritsen
Reader in History at the University...2015-04-1645 minIn Our TimeMatteo Ricci and the Ming DynastyMelvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit priest who in the 16th century led a Christian mission to China. An accomplished scholar, Ricci travelled extensively and came into contact with senior officials of the Ming Dynasty administration. His story is one of the most important encounters between Renaissance Europe and a China which was still virtually closed to outsiders.
With
Mary Laven
Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge
Craig Clunas
Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford
and
Anne Gerritsen
Reader in History at the University...2015-04-1645 minRSDS RADIO SOCIETÀ DEI SOGNIMatteo Ricci and the Ming DynastyMelvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit priest who in the 16th century led a Christian mission to China. An accomplished scholar, Ricci travelled extensively and came into contact with senior officials of the Ming Dynasty administration. His story is one of the most important encounters between Renaissance Europe and a China which was still virtually closed to outsiders.With Mary LavenReader in Early Modern History at the University of CambridgeCraig ClunasProfessor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford2015-04-1645 minIn Our TimeMatteo Ricci and the Ming DynastyMelvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life of Matteo Ricci, a Jesuit priest who in the 16th century led a Christian mission to China. An accomplished scholar, Ricci travelled extensively and came into contact with senior officials of the Ming Dynasty administration. His story is one of the most important encounters between Renaissance Europe and a China which was still virtually closed to outsiders.With Mary Laven
Reader in Early Modern History at the University of CambridgeCraig Clunas
Professor of the History of Art at the University of Oxford...2015-04-1645 min
Front Row: Archive 2014Ai Weiwei at Blenheim Palace, Eimear McBride, Roy Williams, New Prince AlbumsA new exhibition by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at Blenheim Palace will be his biggest UK show to date, which Craig Clunas reviews with Kirsty Lang. Eimear McBride, who won the Bailey's Women's Prize for her debut novel A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, and theatre director Annie Ryan discuss adapting McBride's experimental and challenging book for the stage. Playwright Roy Williams talks about putting Sophocles's Greek tragedy Antigone in a contemporary setting, and as Prince releases two new albums on the same day, Matt Thorne asseses whether the Minneapolis singer-songwriter still has the power to thrill and surprise.2014-09-2628 minNew Books in ArtCraig Clunas, “Screen of Kings: Royal Art and Power in Ming China” (University of Hawaii Press, 2013)Craig Clunas‘s new book explores the significance of members of the imperial clan, or “kings” in Ming China. A king was established in a “state” (guo), and mapping the Ming in terms of guo‘s is a way of mapping Ming space in units that had centers, but not boundaries. (In having many guo‘s, the Ming thus had many centers.) A wonderfully and productively revisionist account of Ming history and its artifacts, Screen of Kings: Royal Art and Power in Ming China (University of Hawaii Press and Reaktion Books, 2013) explores this poly-centric kingly landscape as evidenced by documentary and arc...2014-07-021h 16
New Books in Chinese StudiesCraig Clunas, “Screen of Kings: Royal Art and Power in Ming China” (University of Hawaii Press, 2013)Craig Clunas‘s new book explores the significance of members of the imperial clan, or “kings” in Ming China. A king was established in a “state” (guo), and mapping the Ming in terms of guo‘s is a way of mapping Ming space in units that had centers, but not boundaries. (In having many guo‘s,... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/chinese-studies2014-07-021h 16In Our TimeRomance of the Three KingdomsMelvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, widely regarded as one of the greatest works of Chinese literature. Written 600 years ago, it is an historical novel that tells the story of a tumultuous period in Chinese history, the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD. Partly historical and partly legend, it recounts the fighting and scheming of the feudal lords and the three states which came to power as the Han Dynasty collapsed. The influence of Romance of the Three Kingdoms in East Asia has been likened to that of Homer in the West, and this...2013-06-2742 minIn Our Time: CultureRomance of the Three KingdomsMelvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, widely regarded as one of the greatest works of Chinese literature. Written 600 years ago, it is an historical novel that tells the story of a tumultuous period in Chinese history, the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD. Partly historical and partly legend, it recounts the fighting and scheming of the feudal lords and the three states which came to power as the Han Dynasty collapsed. The influence of Romance of the Three Kingdoms in East Asia has been likened to that of Homer in the West, and this...2013-06-2742 minIn Our TimeRomance of the Three KingdomsMelvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, widely regarded as one of the greatest works of Chinese literature. Written 600 years ago, it is an historical novel that tells the story of a tumultuous period in Chinese history, the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD. Partly historical and partly legend, it recounts the fighting and scheming of the feudal lords and the three states which came to power as the Han Dynasty collapsed. The influence of Romance of the Three Kingdoms in East Asia has been likened to that of Homer in the West, and this warfare...2013-06-2742 min
A History of the World in 100 ObjectsThe David VasesThe history of the world as told through objects that time has left behind. This week Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, has chosen some of the great status symbols of the world around 700 years ago - objects with quite surprising links across the globe. Today he is with a pair of porcelain vases from Yuan dynasty China. This instantly recognisable blue-and-white designed porcelain - that we usually associate with the Ming Dynasty - rapidly became influential and desirable around the world. Neil describes the history of porcelain and the use of these vases in a temple setting...2010-07-0114 min
A History of the World in 100 ObjectsThe David VasesThe history of the world as told through objects that time has left behind. This week Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, has chosen some of the great status symbols of the world around 700 years ago - objects with quite surprising links across the globe. Today he is with a pair of porcelain vases from Yuan dynasty China. This instantly recognisable blue-and-white designed porcelain - that we usually associate with the Ming Dynasty - rapidly became influential and desirable around the world. Neil describes the history of porcelain and the use of these vases in a temple...2010-07-0114 min