INTERTWINED CONVERSATIONS A lecture series formatted as conversations between experts—both overseas and local—with the aim of sharing their scholarship and expertise in topics that connect to the themes of the exhibition, Intertwined: Transpacific, Transcultural Philippines.
Tipos del Pais: Chinese Copies of Albums by Damian Domingo and Justiniano Asuncion FREE REGISTRATION
Dr. Florina Capistrano-Baker first suggested in 2004 the previously undocumented phenomenon of Chinese replication of 19th-century tipos de pais by Filipino artists Damian Domingo and Justiniano Asuncion.
Since then, more Chinese copies of Philippine originals dispersed in various collections have come to light. Among these are as copies of Asuncion's works by well-known Cantonese export painter Tingqua and other painters in his workshop in the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. Other Chinese copies by unidentified artists occur alongside Asuncion originals in the Firestone Library at Princeton University. While authorship of Chinese copies of Domingo's works remain unknown, careful study of surviving copies on pith paper in various collections reveal differences in the quality of draftsmanship and materials used.
This talk explores discrepancies in artistry that create an intriguing hierarchy of replicas of Philippine originals.
Florina H. Capistrano-Baker received a PhD, MPhil, and MA from the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. She has received numerous grants and fellowships from Columbia University, the Asian Cultural Council, the Ford Foundation, the Japan Foundation, the American Association of University Women, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Getty Research Institute. Her recent publications include Philippine Gold: Treasures of Forgotten Kingdoms (Asia Society and Ayala Foundation, 2015).
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Maria Cristina Juan
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Maria Cristina Juan has an MA in Museum, Heritage and Material Culture Studies from SOAS,University of London, and an MA and PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of the Philippines Diliman. She is a member of Faculty at the SOAS School of Languages Cultures and Linguistics and is the project head of Philippine Studies at SOAS, an interdisciplinary forum for Philippine-related teaching, research and cultural production in the U.K. She has implemented several digital humanities projects at SOAS, including Digital Filipiniana (2018), Mapping Philippine Material Culture (2021), and is the Principal Investigator for two UK Research council funded projects on Decolonizing South East Asian Sound archives and a Digital Reconstruction of the Lost Library of San Agustin.
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Karina H. Corrigan
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Karina H. Corrigan is the Associate Director – Collections and the H.A. Crosby Forbes Curator of Asian Export Art at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM). As Associate Director – Collections, she is responsible for spearheading research on PEM’s rich and storied collection, enhancing access to the collection through increased documentation, digitization, and display, and building the collection through new acquisitions. In her curatorial practice, she oversees the largest, most comprehensive public collection of cross-cultural art from China, Japan and South Asia.
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