Richard Vinograd
Christensen Professor of Asian Art
Art & Art History
Bio
Richard Vinograd is the Christensen Fund Professor in Asian Art in the Department of Art & Art History at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1989. Dr. Vinograd’s research interests include Chinese portraiture, landscape painting and cultural geography, urban cultural spaces, painting aesthetics and theory, art historiography, and inter-media studies. He is the author of Boundaries of the Self: Chinese Portraits, 1600-1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992); co-editor of New Understandings of Ming and Qing Painting (Shanghai: Shanghai Calligraphy Painting Publishing House, 1994); and co-author of Chinese Art & Culture (New York: Prentice Hall and Harry N. Abrams, 2001). He has published more than thirty journal articles, anthology chapters, conference papers, and catalogue essays on topics ranging from tenth-century landscape painting to contemporary transnational arts.
Academic Appointments
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Professor, Art & Art History
Administrative Appointments
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Chair, Department of Art & Art History, Stanford University (2009 - 2010)
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Christensen Fund Professor in Asian Art, Stanford University (2003 - Present)
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Professor, Department of Art & Art History, Stanford University (2002 - 2002)
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Chair, Department of Art & Art History, Stanford University (1995 - 2002)
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Associate Professor, Department of Art, Stanford University (1989 - 2002)
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Chair, Department of Art History, School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California (1985 - 1986)
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Chair, Department of Art History, School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California (1987 - 1988)
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Associate Professor, School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California (1984 - 1989)
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Assistant Professor, School of Fine Arts, University of Southern California (1983 - 1984)
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Assistant Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University in the City of New York (1979 - 1983)
Honors & Awards
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Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center (2012 - 2013)
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Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center (1993 - 1994)
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Shimada Prize Lecturer in Asian Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum (1994)
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Summer Program for Scholars at the Inter-University Program for Chinese Language Studies, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation (1992)
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Millard Meiss Publication Fund Subsidy, College Art Association of America (1990 - 1991)
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Mellon Fellowship for Chinese Studies, American Council of Learned Societies (1986 - 1987)
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Scholarly Communication with the People’s Republic of China Exchange Program, National Academy of Sciences Committee (1982)
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Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, National Endowment for the Humanities (1982 - 1983)
Program Affiliations
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Center for East Asian Studies
Professional Education
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B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Art History (1970)
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M.A., University of California, Berkeley, History of Art (1972)
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Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, History of Art (1979)
2024-25 Courses
- Chinese Buddhist Painting: Visions and Practices
ARTHIST 139, ARTHIST 339 (Spr) - From Shanghai Modern to Global Contemporary: Frontiers of Modern Chinese Art
ARTHIST 188B, ARTHIST 388B (Win) - New Landscapes of China: Ecologies, Media, Imaginaries
ARTHIST 226, ARTHIST 426 (Spr) - Writing and the Visual: The Art of Art Writing
ARTHIST 294 (Win) -
Independent Studies (12)
- Curricular Practical Training
ARTHIST 290 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Curricular Practical Training
ARTHIST 680 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Dissertation Proposal Preparation
ARTHIST 640 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Dissertation Research
ARTHIST 650 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Extended Seminar
ARTHIST 660E (Aut, Win, Spr) - Graduate Directed Reading
EASTASN 300 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Honors Thesis Writing
ARTHIST 297 (Win) - Independent Study
ARTHIST 660 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Individual Work: Art History
ARTHIST 298 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Qualifying Examination Preparation
ARTHIST 620 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Teaching Praxis
ARTHIST 610 (Aut, Win, Spr) - Visual Arts Internship
ARTHIST 295 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Curricular Practical Training
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Prior Year Courses
2023-24 Courses
- Arts of China in the Early Modern World, 1550-1800
ARTHIST 185, ARTHIST 385 (Spr) - Asian Arts and Cultures
ARTHIST 2 (Win) - Cultures in Competition: Arts of Song-Era China
ARTHIST 182B, ARTHIST 382B (Aut) - Dissertation Seminar
ARTHIST 670 (Win) - New Landscapes of China: Ecologies, Media, Imaginaries
ARTHIST 226, ARTHIST 426 (Win)
2021-22 Courses
- Asian Arts and Cultures
ARTHIST 2, JAPAN 60 (Win) - From Shanghai Modern to Global Contemporary: Frontiers of Modern Chinese Art
ARTHIST 188B, ARTHIST 388B (Spr) - Junior Seminar: Methods & Historiography of Art History
ARTHIST 296 (Win) - New Landscapes of China: Ecologies, Media, Imaginaries
ARTHIST 226, ARTHIST 426 (Spr)
- Arts of China in the Early Modern World, 1550-1800
All Publications
- Multi-medium, Site, and Dream-World: Shanghai Pictorials of the 1920s and 1930s Journal of Art Studies 2013; 12: 171-214
- Patrimonies in Press: Art Publishing, Cultural Politics, and Canon Construction in the Career of Di Baoxian (1873-1941) The Role of Japan in Modern Chinese Art edited by Fogel, J. A. Berkeley: University of California Press,. 2012: 244–272
- Hiding in Plane Sight: Accommodating Incompatibilities in Early Modern Pictures Comparative Early Modernities edited by Porter, D. London: Palgrave MacMillan. 2012: 125–164
- Making Natural Languages in Contemporary Chinese Art Xu Bing and Contemporary Chinese Art: Cultural and Philosophical Reflections edited by Ames, R., Tsao, H. Albany: SUNY Press. 2011: 95–115
- Facing the Modern: Wu Changshuo and the Spaces of Portraiture Tracing the Past, Initiating the Future exhibition catalogue Stanford University: Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University. 2010: 55–58
- Zhongguo yishu yu wenhua Beijing: Shijie tushu chuban gongsi Beijing gongsi. 2010
- Modern Passages: Chinese Ink Painting in an Era of Transformation Tracing the Past, Initiating the Future exhibition catalogue Stanford: Cantor Center for Visual Arts. 2010: 39–51
- Afterlives: Image and Identity between Jin Nong and Luo Ping Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping edited by Karlsson, K., Murck, A., Matteini, M. Zurich: Museum Rietberg. 2009: 30–37
- Decentering Yuan Painting Ars Orientalis 2009; 37: 195-212
- Narrative and Metanarrative in Chinese Painting Studies Stones from Other Mountains: Chinese Painting Studies in Postwar America edited by Kuo, J. C. Washington, D.C.: New Academia Publishing. 2009: 167–198
- Brightness and Shadows: The Politics of Painting at the Ming Court Power and Glory: Court Arts of China’s Ming Dynasty edited by Li, H., Knight, M. 2008: 183–201
- Copies, Methods, Histories: A Discussion of East Asian Art with Richard Vinograd In Relation: Chicago Art Journal 2008: 100-114
- The Ends of Chinese Painting The History of Painting in East Asia: Essays on Scholarly Method edited by Richard, N. N., Brix, D. E. 2008: 509–526
- Temporalities in Early Twentieth Century Chinese Painting Chinese Painting on the Eve of the Communist Revolution: Chang Shu-chi and his Collection Stanford, CA: Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts. 2006: 1–2
- Afterword: Re-Placing Chinese Painting Discovering Chinese Painting: Dialogues with Art Historians edited by Kuo, J. C. 2nd ed., Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt Publishing. 2006: 173–182
- Strategic Landscapes Studies on 20th Century Shanshuihua Shanghai: Shanghai shuhua chubanshe. 2006: 292–302
- Opening Remarks: Re-Placing Contemporary Chinese Art Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 2005: 6-9
- Preface The century was not declining in art: a history of nineteenth-century Chinese painting Taipei: Xiong shi tu shu gu fen you xian gong si. 2005
- Fan Ch’i (1616-after 1694): Place-Making and the Semiotics of Sight in Seventeenth- Century Nanching Journal of Art History 2003; 14: 129-157
- Cultural Spaces and the Problem of a Visual Modernity in the Cities of Late Ming Chiang-nan Papers from the Third International Conference on Sinology, History Section 2002: 327–60
- Chinese Art and Culture New York: Abrams/Prentice-Hall. 2001
- Relocations: Spaces of Chinese Visual Modernity Chinese Art: Modern Expressions edited by Hearn, M. K., Smith, J. G. 2001: 162–181
- Visibility and Visuality: Painted Women in Late Nineteenth-Century Shanghai Studies on Shanghai School Painting edited by Fusheng, L. Shanghai: Shanghai Calligraphy and Painting Press. 2001: 1073–1101
- Richard Vinograd Discovering Chinese Painting: Dialogues with American Art Historians edited by Kuo, J. C. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt. 2000: 131–139
- Satire and Situation: Images of the Artist in Late Nineteenth-Century China Art at the Close of China's Empire edited by Chou, J. 1998: 110–133
- China: Portrait Painting The Dictionary of Art 1996; 6: 811-814
- Luo Ping The Dictionary of Art 1996; 19: 802-803
- Toward New Views of Ming and Qing Painting China Exchange News 1995; 23 (3): 10-13
- Origins and Presences: Notes on the Psychology and Sociality of Shih-t'ao’s Dreams Ars Orientalis 1995; XXV: 61-72
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ART-HISTORICAL TOPOLOGIES
ART BULLETIN
1994; 76 (4): 593-595
View details for Web of Science ID A1994PW17500008
- Introduction New Interpretations of Ming and Qing Painting: the Collections of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Central Academy Affiliated Middle School, Beijing edited by Vinograd, R. E., Cahill, J., Yongnian, X. 1994: 6–7
- New Interpretations of Ming and Qing Painting: the Collections of the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Central Academy Affiliated Middle School, Beijing edited by Vinograd, R. E., Cahill, J., Yongnian, X. Shanghai: People’s Fine Arts Press. 1994
- Preface Ming and Qing Paintings in the Collection of the Palace Museum Beijing Beijing, Forbidden City Press. 1994
- “Is There a Mind in the Text?” in “Bridging the Gap”: Where Cognitive Science Meets Literary Criticism Stanford Humanities Review 1994; 4 (1): 118-120
- Boundaries of the Self: Chinese Portraits, 1600-1900 New York: Cambridge University Press. 1992
- Private Art and Public Knowledge in Later Chinese Painting Images of Memory: On Remembering and Representation edited by Küchler, S., Melion, W. Washington and London: Smithsonian Institution Press. 1991: 176–202, 242–246
- Vision and Revision in Seventeenth-Century Painting Proceedings of the Tung Ch'i-ch'ang International Symposium edited by Ho, W. 1991: 1–28
- Figure, Fiction and Figment in Eighteenth-century Chinese Painting Chinese Painting Under the Qianlong Emperor: The Symposium Papers in Two Volumes 1991: 209–227
- Family Properties: Personal Context and Cultural Pattern in Wang Meng's Pien Mountains of A.D. 1366 New Art: Journal of the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts 1990
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SITUATION AND RESPONSE IN TRADITIONAL CHINESE SCHOLAR PAINTING
JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS AND ART CRITICISM
1988; 46 (3): 365-374
View details for Web of Science ID A1988P712100003
- Historical Study of Traditional Painting China Exchange News 1983; 11 (4): 5-7
- Family Properties: Personal Context and Cultural Pattern in Wang Meng's Pien Mountains of A.D. 1366 Ars Orientalis 1982; XIII: 1-29
- New Light on Tenth-Century Sources for Landscape Painting Styles of the Late Yüan Period Collected Essays on the History of Chinese Painting in Honor of Professor Suzuki Kei 1981: 1–30
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SOME LANDSCAPES RELATED TO THE BLUE-AND-GREEN MANNER FROM THE EARLY YUAN PERIOD
ARTIBUS ASIAE
1979; 41 (2-3): 101-131
View details for Web of Science ID A1979JD99200001
- Reminiscences of Ch'in-huai: Tao-chi and the Nanking School Archives of Asian Art 1978; XXXI: 6-13
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'RIVER VILLAGE PLEASURES OF FISHING' AND CHAO,MENG,FU LIKUO STYLE LANDSCAPES
ARTIBUS ASIAE
1978; 40 (2-3): 124-142
View details for Web of Science ID A1978FY05600002