Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Asian Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: TRADITIONAL CHINESE PAINTING ***** This course examines the significance of the brushwork in traditional Chinese painting as performance, as expression of artistic personality, and as a system of gestures borrowed from the art of calligraphy. We will consider how historically shifting understanding of the brushwork served to express diverse aesthetic, social, and cultural concerns. ***** Also offered as HART 371