Publications

2005
Wang, Eugene. “Sound-Observer and Ways of Representing Presences.” In Presence and Images: Essays on the 'Presence' of the Prototype within the Image, edited by Rupert Shepherd, 259-278. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005.
Mirror, Moon, and Memory in Eighth Century China: From Coiling Dragon to Lunar Landscape
Wang, Eugene. “Mirror, Moon, and Memory in Eighth Century China: From Coiling Dragon to Lunar Landscape.” In Clarity and Luster: New Light on Bronze Mirrors in Tang and Post-Tang Dynasty China, 600-1300, edited by Claudia Brown and Ju-Hsi Chou, 42-67. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art in Association with Brepols Publishers, 2005. View PDF
Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China
Wang, Eugene. Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2005. Publisher's VersionAbstract Introduction
2004
Wang, Eugene. “Romancing the Stone: An Archway in Shandong.Orientations 2, no. March (2004): 90-97.
Of the True Body: The Buddha's Relics and Corporeal Transformation in Tang Imperial Culture
Wang, Eugene, and Katherine Mino. “Of the True Body: The Buddha's Relics and Corporeal Transformation in Tang Imperial Culture.” In Body and Face in Chinese Visual Culture, edited by Wu Hung. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. View PDF
Wang, Eugene. “Oneiric Horizons and Dissolving Bodies: Buddhist Cave Shrine as Mirror Hall.” Art History 27, no. 4 (2004): 494-521. View PDF
2003
Tale of the Wisteria Robe
McCormick, Melissa. “Tale of the Wisteria Robe.” In Journey Through Asia: Masterpieces in Brooklyn Museum of Art , 96-97. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 2003.
McCormick, Melissa. “Genji Goes West: The 1510 Genji Album and the Visualization of Court and Capital.” The Art Bulletin 85, no. 1 (2003): 54-85. View PDF
McCormick, Melissa. “On the Scholarship of Chino Kaori.” Japanese Art: The Scholarship and Legacy of Chino Kaori, special issue of Review of Japanese Culture and Society XV (2003): 1-24.
2001
Sketch Conceptualism as Modernist Contingency
Wang, Eugene. “Sketch Conceptualism as Modernist Contingency.” In Chinese Art: Modern Expressions, 102-61. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001.
2000
Wang, Eugene. “The Winking Owl: An Art Historical Thick Description.” Critical Inquiry 26 (2000): 435-73. View PDF
1999
Wang, Eugene. “Coffins and Confucianism - The Northern Wei (386-534) Sacophagus at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.Orientations, no. June (1999): 56-64.
Wang, Eugene. “The Taming of the Shrew: Wang Hsi-Chih (303-361) and Calligraphic Gentrification in Seventh-century China.” In Character and Context, edited by Cary Liu, 132-173. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 1999.
Wang, Eugene. “What Do Trigrams Have to Do with Buddhas? The Northern Liang (397-439) Stupas as a Hybrid Spatial Model.” RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 35 (1999): 71-91.
McCormick, Melissa. “Documentation Concerning the Production of the Tale of Genji Album (Harvard University Art Museums) Recorded in the Diary of Sanjōnishi Sanetaka.” Kokka, no. 1241 (1999): 27-28.
1998
Wang, Eugene. “Transformation in Heterotopia: The Longhuta and Its Relief-Sculptures.” Orientations, no. June (1998): 32-40.
1997
McCormick, Melissa. “The Utatane Soshi Emaki and Representations of Female Subjectivity in the Muromachi Period.” Transactions of the International Conference of Eastern Studies XLII (1997): 45-70.
1996
Samsara and the Crisis of Visual Narrative
Wang, Eugene. “Samsara and the Crisis of Visual Narrative.” In Narratives of Agency, edited by Wimal Dissanayake. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
Wang, Eugene. “Whose Paradise is it Anyway? - The Lotus Sutra Tableau in Cave 217 at Dunhuang.” Orientations, no. November (1996): 44-49.
1995
Of Text and Texture: The Cultural Relevance of Xu Bing's Art
Wang, Eugene. “Of Text and Texture: The Cultural Relevance of Xu Bing's Art.” In Xu Bing: Language Lost, 7-15. Massachusetts College of Art, 1995.

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