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SUMMARY:Color as a Field of Study: New Perspectives from Asia
DESCRIPTION:Conference organized by Yingxue Wang\, Quincy Ngan\, Mimi Yien
 gpruksawan and the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University\n\nCo
 lor is woven into the fabric of human culture\, shaping artistic practice
 \, systems of meaning\, and engagements with the natural world. Across As
 ia and beyond\, color has historically been a precious resource: extracte
 d from minerals\, plants\, and animals\; synthesized through chemical tec
 hnologies\; and traded through regional and global networks. Applied to n
 early every crafted object and built environment\, color has mediated vis
 ual perception\, structured aesthetic hierarchies\, and encoded symbolic 
 meaning. Engaging these diverse perspectives\, this conference brings tog
 ether art historians and conservation scientists to reconfigure color as 
 a critical field of study. It opens conversations on various themes: the 
 making and movement of pigments\, dyes\, and other colorful materials\; t
 he socioeconomic\, aesthetic\, and religious significance of color\; and 
 the translation of color aesthetics and techniques across media and cultu
 res. Collectively\, these approaches broaden the study of visual and mate
 rial culture by incorporating insights from historical and scientific res
 earch\, while illuminating color’s power to connect worlds: material and 
 visual\, sensory and symbolic\, human and nonhuman.\n\nhttp://next-to-u.a
 pp/events/a98ece37-3be3-49f4-b342-3121b3699faf
URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/a98ece37-3be3-49f4-b342-3121b3699faf
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