Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: VISUAL CULTURE IN REVOLUTIONARY AND POST REVOLUTIONARY CHINA (ca. 1949-PRESENT)

Department: Asian Studies

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: 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. Cross-list: HART 470.