Eugene Wang

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Eugene Y. Wang is the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University.

Education

Born in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, Professor Eugene Wang received his B.A. in English from Fudan University in Shanghai in 1983. He studied Chinese and Western literary theory with Wu Li-fu and received his master's degree in Comparative Literature in 1986, and then relocated to the United States for further study.

He received his PhD in Art History from Harvard University in 1997 and became an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago in the same year. He has been teaching at Harvard since the fall of 1997 and has been the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard since 2005, the third holder of this chair since Max Loehr (1903-1988). He is also one of only two tenured professors of liberal arts at Harvard University. In addition to teaching in the Harvard Department of Art and Architectural History, he also teaches in the Harvard Department of Theater, Dance, and Media and the Department of Inner Asian and Altaic Studies.

In 2019, he founded the Harvard FAS CAMLab. CAMLab explores the nexus of cognition, aesthetics, and mindscape. The CAMLab projects he heads explores multimedia storyliving and immersive artistic-cum-spiritual experience, integrating humanistic research and sensorial media practice.

Career

Professor Eugene Wang is dedicated to the study of Chinese art history, with a unique perspective on the development of Chinese art through the ages, covering ancient life art, Buddhist art, painting and calligraphy, architecture, photography and film. His work ranges from early Chinese art and archaeology to modern and contemporary Chinese art and cinema. His book Shaping the Dharma Flower Sutra: The Visualization of Buddhism in Medieval China (2005) explores the idea of Buddhist world-making. Professor Wang's research centers on the cognitive study of art and consciousness as well as biocentric art that integrates visual, biological, and ecological systems.

He was a Guggenheim Fellow (2005) and Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of Buddhism (2004), where he was responsible for the section on Buddhist art history. He has served on the editorial board of The Art Bulletin, the professional journal of the National Conference on Art History. He is currently on the editorial boards of the Harvard Journal of Asian Studies and the French Cahiersd'Extrême-Orient, and on the editorial board of Harvard Asian Center Publications.

Works

English works

Art history editor. Encyclopedia of Buddhism. Ed. Robert E. Buswell, Jr. et al. 2 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference USA/Thomson/Gale, 2004.

Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005.

Co-author, Secrets of the Fallen Pagoda: The Famen Temple and Tang Court Culture. Singapore: Asian Civilizations Museum, 2014.

Sterling Ruby VIVIDS. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2015.

Co-editor. The Zoomorphic Imagination in Chinese Art and Culture. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2016.

Chinese works

汪耀进编著：《意象批评》 成都：四川⽂艺出版社，1989.

郑岩、汪悦进：《庵上坊: ⼝述、⽂字和图像》北京：⽣活·读书·新知三联书店，2008.

汪耀进、武佩荣译：罗兰巴特（Roland Barthes）《恋⼈絮语：⼀个解构主义的⽂本》（Fragments d’un discours amoureux）上海: 上海⼈⺠出版社，1988；台北：桂冠出版社，1991；台北：商周出版社，2010.

Awards and honors

Awards

1998年，保罗·盖蒂博⼠后奖学⾦

2005年，古根海姆基⾦会学术成就奖

2005年，赖斯康姆奖

2006年，坂本⽇深学术奖

2016年，拉德克利夫奖⾦

Honors

美国⾼层精英波⼠顿星期六俱乐部（Boston Saturday Club，1855年成⽴）终⾝成员；

剑桥科学俱乐部（Cambridge Scientific Club，1842年成⽴）终⾝成员。

References

[1] Dorinda Elliott (2023), Experiencing Buddhist Transcendence Through Technology.

External links

Harvard FAS CAMLab official website

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