The Saint Louis Art Museum is pleased to announce that the 10th Annual Nelson I. Wu Lecture on Asian Art and Culture will take place on Thursday, November 1, 2007, 6:00 p.m. in the Museum Auditorium; admission is free to all. The Museum is located at One Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park, Saint Louis, MO 63110-1380.
Professor Jerome Silbergeld, P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Professor of Chinese Art History, Princeton University, and Director, Tang Center, Princeton University, will speak on the topic of "Cultural Memory and Regional Pride in China's Western Gardens."
Most of what is known about China's great garden-building history comes from private scholar gardens in the south and imperial gardens in the north. Silbergeld sheds new light on Chinese garden design when he explores the little-known tradition of landscape architecture from Sichuan in the southwest. The 10th Annual Nelson I. Wu Lecture on Asian Art and Culture, which honors the memory of the late Dr. Wu, is jointly sponsored by the Saint Louis Art Museum and Washington University in St. Louis.
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