Purtle, Jenny
Associate Professor
Graduate Department of Art
University of Toronto
Canada
Biography
My research focuses on the cultural geography of Chinese artistic production from the Six Dynasties to the present. This research takes two forms. I study the artistic landscape of China, especially that of China’s Fujian province, principally engaging questions of local and regional production of art and objects and their relation to artistic production within Chinese empires. As a complement to my work on the artistic landscape of China, I also research the premodern circulation of art objects through and beyond the borders of Chinese empires, especially in contexts of the Great Mongol Empire and the medieval world system. Currently I am working on a project that traces the intersection of local and global art history in Fujian during the Song and Yuan dynasties. A concurrent collaborative project with colleagues from the UofT and the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art also addresses global and postglobal perspectives on medieval art and art history.
Research Interest
History of Chinese and Mongolian Art; Geography of Artistic Production.
