Tamara Bently

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Institutional Affiliation

Colorado College

Education

• Brown University, B.A. 1983
• National Central Art Academy, Beijing, Visiting Scholar 1992-93
• Taiwan Fulbright, National Central Library, 1994-95
• Freer and Sackler Galleries, Dissertation Fellowship, 1995-96
• University of Michigan, Ph.D., Asian Art, 2000

Regional and Thematic Interests

• Art and International Trade
• Print Culture
• Art and Markets
• Word and Image
• Portraiture
• Treatments of Emotion

Profile

Tamara Bentley teaches broadly in the arts of China and Japan. Her research concentrates on relationships between visual and literary values in 17th century and 18th century Chinese and Japanese paintings and prints; as well as the international exchange of imagery in the early modern era. She has several articles published on the international circulation of prints in circa 1600 and on printed playing cards. She is particularly interested in issues of comparative print cultures, expanding public markets for art, trade, and the treatment of "otherness" in this era.

Selection Publication

The Figurative Works of Chen Hongshou (1599-1652): Authentic Voices/Expanding Markets

• Through analysis of Chen's figure paintings and print designs, Bentley examines the artist's engagement with the values of "authenticity" and "emotion," which were part of a larger discourse stressing idiosyncrasy, the individual voice, and vernacular literature.