Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Asian Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: VISUAL CULTURE IN REVOLUTIONARY & POSTREVOLUTIONARY CHINA (ca. 1949-PRESENT) ***** Exploration of propaganda and avant-garde art in modern Chinese visual culture. Issues include: art as social movement, notions of political and artistic avant-garde, structure of authoritarian art, and paradox of counter- discourse. The course will draw on scholarship on Soviet and Third Reich German visual cultures, Euro-American mass culture and avant-garde art. ***** Also offered as HART 470.