ARTH-A 261 ART AND CULTURE OF CHINA (3 CR.)
Examines Chinese art and visual culture from the Neolithic era to the present day. Provides training and practice in analyzing works of art from China (including bronzes, Buddhist sculptures, calligraphy, monumental landscape paintings, ceramics, imperial palaces, and contemporary installations) and critically evaluating scholarly writing about artistic objects from the area.
1 classes found
Spring 2024
Component | Credits | Class | Status | Time | Day | Facility | Instructor |
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LEC | 3 | 29506 | Open | 11:30 a.m.–12:45 p.m. | TR | TV 245 | Yan W |
Regular Academic Session / In Person
LEC 29506: Total Seats: 40 / Available: 2 / Waitlisted: 0
Lecture (LEC)
- COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq
- COLL (CASE) Global Civ & Cultr
- Above class open to undergraduates only
- COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
- COLL (CASE) Global Civ & Culture credit
This course explores the art and visual culture of China from the Neolithic era to the present day. Lectures, readings, and discussions will teach methods to analyze a work of art, as well as provide the opportunity for students to critically evaluate recent scholarship on Chinese art and culture. Students will engage with a broad array of media, from ancient bronzes, early Buddhist cave-shrines, transcultural ceramics, ink painting and calligraphy, to excavated tombs, imperial palaces, gardens, and contemporary performance art. While exploring the meanings and functions of these objects and spaces, we will interrogate the contexts in which these varied visual traditions took shape. Students will have the opportunity to conduct in-person investigation of Chinese artworks at the Eskenazi Museum of Art.