When the waterborne culture replaced the garden culture in China, it refined activities such as painting, calligraphy, and music.
The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino is inviting people to learn more about this topic through an online lecture, titled “Unmoored Gardens: Shifting Cultural Spaces in Late Imperial China,” at 5 p.m. Thursday, free with a reservation.
In this lecture, Dr. Einor Cervone, the Mozhai Foundation Curatorial Fellow in the department of Chinese art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), will explore the unlikely links between Ming Dynasty (1368 to 1644) garden culture and waterborne culture. The talk will showcase how refined activities like painting, calligraphy, and music were transformed when relocated to the waterscape.
At LACMA’s Chinese Art Department, Dr. Cervone’s research interests include the cultural life of art objects and inter-regional artistic exchanges, with a particular focus on Ming and Qing painting, Chinese ceramics, and East Asian lacquer.
Cervone holds a bachelor of arts degree from Tel Aviv University and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. She served as a visiting scholar at Academia Sinica in Taipei in 2014 and 2015 and as an associate at the American Museum of Natural History in New York from 2017 to 2019.
Her publications include “Art Adrift: Curating Selves Aboard Ming-Dynasty Painting-and-Calligraphy Boats,” included in the Archives of Asian Art in 2019.
The free online event on Thursday will be held via Zoom starting at 4 p.m. The link to the virtual Zoom event will be sent to attendees in your registration confirmation email.
To register, visit www.huntington.org/events/unmoored-gardens and click the Reserve button on the page.
