Robert L. Thorp

Robert L. Thorp, a leading authority on early Chinese art, is professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis and author of scores of articles and catalogue essays. Besides extensive travel and archaeological field work in the Far East, Thorp has show more co-curated several major museum exhibitions and has been invited to speak at virtually every U.S. museum with important holdings in Chinese art Richard Ellis Vinograd, chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University since 1995, is a highly regarded scholar of later Chinese art, from the Song era to the present. Recipient of numerous awards and honors, he is the author of the definitive Boundaries of the Self: Chinese Portraits 1600-1900, and of articles and reviews in many distinguished journals. Vinograd is much in demand as a speaker, panelist, and discussant at conferences and symposia on Chinese art and culture show less