Robert E. Harrist Explained

Robert E. Harrist Jr. (born 1951) is Jane and Leopold Swergold Professor of Chinese Art History at Columbia University. His book, The Landscape of Words, was awarded the Joseph Levenson Prize in 2010.^[1] He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge for 2006–07.^[2]

Selected publications

• Power and Virtue: The Horse in Chinese Art. Art Media Resources, 1997.
• Painting and Private Life in Eleventh-Century China: Mountain Villa by Li Gonglin. Princeton University Press, 1998.
• The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection. Art Museum at Princeton University, 1999.
• The Landscape of Words. University of Washington Press, 2008.^[3]

External links

• Lecture by Harrist

Notes and References

1. Web site: Robert E. Harrist Jr. - Department of Art History and Archaeology - Columbia University.
2. Web site: Robert Harrist — Department of History of Art.
3. 40645481. McNair. AMY. Reviewed work: The Landscape of Words: Stone Inscriptions from Early and Medieval China, ROBERT E. HARRIST JR. The Art Bulletin. 91. 2. 230–232. Harrist. Robert E.. 2009.