Dr. Anne Burkus Chasson

Biography

Anne Burkus-Chasson is an Associate Professor in the School of Art & Design at the University of Illinois, where she specializes in Art History. Her research focuses on painting and woodblock-printed books from the late Ming period (1520–1644). Burkus-Chasson's work examines the interactions between visual images and literary strategies in late imperial China, exploring how self-representation and the materiality of illustrated books influence the viewer's perception of visual culture. Her scholarly contributions include the article 'Elegant Common? Chen Hongshou’s Birthday Presentation Pictures,' published in the Art Bulletin, which won the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize from the College Art Association in January 1995. Additionally, she authored the book 'Forest Chancellors: Fugitive Histories Liu Yuan’s Lingyan ge, Illustrated Book Seventeenth-Century Suzhou,' published by Harvard Asia Center in 2010. Burkus-Chasson has received several fellowships to support her research, including the Louise W. Hackney Fellowship for the Study of Chinese Painting from the American Oriental Society and the J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in the History of Art and Humanities. She is currently researching a book tentatively titled 'Containing Image: Chen Hongshou (1598/99–1652) Illustrated Book,' which further investigates the intricate relationship between painting and print in late Ming China.

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