Cary Y. Liu

Curator of Asian Art


Cary Y. Liu is a specialist in Chinese architectural history and art history, he has MArch and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University, and is a licensed architect. Recent exhibitions for which he has been curator include: Recarving China's Past: Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of the "Wu Family Shrines" (2005); Providing for the Afterlife: "Brilliant Artifacts" from Shandong (2005); Seeing Double: Copies and Copying in the Arts of China (2001); and The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy from the John B. Elliott Collection (1999). Among his publications are contributions to Art of the Sung and Yüan: Ritual, Ethnicity, and Style in Painting (1999), and to the journals Hong Kong University Museum Journal, Oriental Art, Orientations, and T'oung Pao. He also has published the essay "Chinese Architectural Aesthetics: Patterns of Living and Being between Past and Present," in Ronald G. Knapp, and Kai-yin Lo, eds., House, Home, Family: Living and Being Chinese (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2005), and was curator for the exhibition and catalogue Providing for the Afterlife: “Brilliant Artifacts" from Shandong (2005) at the China Institute in New York.

Place made: China, Asia
Chinese
Early Western Zhou, ca. 1100 - 770 B.C.
Guang vessel
11th - 10th century B.C.
Bronze
h. 31.3 cm., w. 16.0 cm., l. 36.0 cm., weight 5.3g (12 3/8 x 6 5/16 x 14 3/16 in.)
Museum purchase from the C. D. Carter Collection, gift of the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation
y1965-3
photo: Bruce M. White