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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 382.) The era from the Five Dynasties and Song to the mid-Ming period was marked by competition in cultural arenas such as between Chinese and formerly nomadic regimes, or between official court art modes and scholar-official and literati groups. Topics include: innovations in architectural and ceramic technologies; developments in landscape painting and theory; the proliferation of art texts and discourses; the rise of educated artists; official arts and ideologies of the Song, Liao, Jin, Yuan, and Ming regimes; new roles for women as patrons and cultural participants; and Chan and popular Buddhist imagery. GER:DB-Hum, ECGlobalCom 4 units, not given this year
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 382A.) Coincides with a major loan exhibition of Ming court arts at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. How Ming dynasty emperors, aristocrats, eunuchs and officials used art patronage to assert political power and cultural values. Major Chinese court art forms and media, including painting, porcelain, textiles, furniture, and metalwork. Topics include styles and modes of signification, artists' careers and artist-patron relationships, court institutions, and the impact of court arts on the wider world. Field trips to the exhibition at the Asian Art Museum. GER:DB-Hum 4 units, Sum (Vinograd, R)
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 384.) The changes marking the transition from medieval to early modern Japanese society generated a revolution in visual culture. This paradigm shift as exemplified in subjects deemed fit for representation; how commoners joined elites in pictorializing their world, catalyzed by interactions with the Dutch. GER:DB-Hum 4 units, not given this year
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 385.) From the late Ming period to contemporary arts. Topics: urban arts and print culture; commodification of art; painting theories; self portrayals; court art, collection, and ideological programs; media and modernity in Shanghai; politics and art in the People's Republic; and contemporary avant garde and transnational movements. GER:DBHum 4 units, Win (Vinograd, R)
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 385B.) Issues and developments in contemporary Chinese art over the past two decades. Questions of personal and national identity, politics and history, globalization and mass culture, consumerism and urban transformation, and the body, sexuality, and gender, as represented in formats including painting, photography, and installation and multimedia art. Museum visits. GER:EC-GlobalCom 4 units, Aut (Vinograd, R)
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 387, JAPANGEN 87.) Narratives of conflict, pacification, orthodoxy, nostalgia, and novelty through visual culture during the change of episteme from late medieval to early modern, 16th through early 19th centuries. The rhetorical messages of castles, teahouses, gardens, ceramics, paintings, and prints; the influence of Dutch and Chinese visuality; transformation in the roles of art and artist; tensions between the old and the new leading to the modernization of Japan. GER:DB-Hum, EC-GlobalCom 4 units, Win (Takeuchi, M)
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 388A.) The recent rapid urbanization and architectural transformation of Asia; focus is on the architecture of Japan and China since the mid-19th century. History of forms, theories, and styles that serve as the foundation for today's buildings and cityscapes. How Eastern and Western ideas of modernism have merged or diverged and how these forces continue to shape the future of Japanese and Chinese architecture and urban form. 4 units, Spr (Beischer, T)
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 391.) Afro-American graphic writing and other forms of visual communication including ancient rupestrian art and rock painting in Africa, and present-day forms in the Americas. The diversity of daily life, religion, social organization, politics, and culture with African origin in the diaspora. Focus is on major contemporary Afro-Atlantic religions including: Palo Monte and Abakua in Cuba; Gaga in the Dominican Republic; Revival, Obeah, and Kumina in Jamaica; Vodun in Haiti; and Candomble and Macumba in Brazil. 4 units, not given this year
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 392.) Form, space, media, medium, and visual expression in African art. Rock art to contemporary art production. Majors works and art expression in terms of function and historical context. GER:DB-Hum 4 units, not given this year
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 393A.) Visual culture from 1505 to 1889 and its relation to current debates on cultural identity, hybridity, syncretism, and creolization. Painting, travel books, and printmaking by artists including De Bry, Belisario, Rugendas, Debret, and Landaluce. Visual analysis of works at the Yale Center for the British Art and Stanford's Green Library. GER:DB-Hum 4 units, not given this year
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