EAST-UA 615 - Aesthetics and Politics of Vision in Premodern Japan

Institution:

New York University

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Description:

Offers a broad cultural history of Japan, roughly from the eighth century through the mid-19th. The focus is on visual regimes-differing conventions and practices of seeing-and on changing roles for what is now thought of as aesthetics; these visual regimes are then taken as a means of understanding fundamental transformations in structures of power, community, and subjectivity. Draws on a range of materials, from literature to landscape gardens, visual arts, architecture, and technologies, as well as on a diversity of disciplinary perspectives.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.nyu.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 998-1212

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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