Course Catalog - 2004-2005

     

ASIA 170 - THE ARTS OF CHINA

Long Title:
Department: Asian Studies
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: THE ARTS OF CHINA ***** History of the visual arts of China from Bronze Age to present. Special attention to the artworks' physical and social contexts. Included: funerary art and the imagination of the afterlife, art and imperial cosmology, rise of literati aesthetic, relationship between painting and calligraphy, and the emergences of propaganda avant-garde art in Modern China. ***** Also offered as HART 170.