CHI 233 - Chinese Visual Culture: Medium and Materiality

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University of Rochester

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Description:

This course explores the cultural politics of Chinese visual culture through an examination of its mediums. We’ll consider how in pre-20th century China paintings structured relations of gender and of inner and outer worlds; how the inscription of calligraphy on land mediated image and writing, nature and culture; and how the mass production of artworks intersected with conceptions of nature and social organization. We’ll then consider the new media culture of the 1920s-1930s, iconoclasm and idolatry during the Cultural Revolution, and the emergence of experimental and documentary art in recent decades. Our concern will be how mediums, as assemblages of images and surfaces with specific material qualities and practices function within real social spaces and create virtual spaces of representation and imagination.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rochester.edu

Phone Number:

(888) 822-2256

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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