The Best-Selling Christmas Cards of Tyrus Wong
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Elaborating on her recent Smithsonian article, researcher and writer Karen Fang will speak about the Christmas cards designed by longtime LA artist Tyrus Wong. During the 1950-1970s, Wong's seasonal greeting cards were a cultural and commercial phenomenon, and both an important part of his fascinating career as well as a telling glimpse into the changing place of Chinese culture in American society. In this special CHSSC presentation, Professor Fang will speak about Wong's innovative fusion of Asian aesthetics with western holiday traditions, as well as the personal and regional influences informing his unique cards.
Karen Fang is a film scholar and cultural critic who writes about the intersection of eastern and western aesthetics. A faculty member at the University of Houston (Houston, Texas), Fang has been published by Stanford University Press and the Los Angeles Review of Books.