Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Asian Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE ARTS OF CHINA ***** Introduction of the history of the visual arts of China from the Bronze Age to the present. We will pay special attention to the artworks' physical and social contexts (e.g. tomb, temple, court, literati's garden and studio, city, nation-state). Topics include: funerary art and the imagination of the afterlife, art and imperial cosmology, rise of literati aesthetic, relationship between landscape painting and calligraphy, and the emergences of propaganda avant-garde art in Modern China. ***** Also offered as HART 170.