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Course Criteria
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5.00 Credits
Themes of palace and court life popular in vernacular painting, print illustrated books, and fiction. Dimensions of the imperial palace and court in late Ming public imaginary, including strategies of historical displacement, disguised political critique, commerce in imperial objects, the taste for scandal, and mythologies of court life. 5 units, Aut (Vinograd, R)
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5.00 Credits
Offered in conjunction with the Stanford Humanities Laboratory. Mediations of the cosmopolitan cities of Shanghai and Paris as frames and stages for representation and social presentation, including: conventional visual, pictorial, and art media such as painting, lithography, photography, and film; and complex, multimedia and social spaces such as illustrated periodicals, cabarets, theaters, shopping streets, and expositions. The materiality of media, social and economic systems, cultural spaces, and the construction of urban imaginaries. 5 units, not given this year
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5.00 Credits
The interplay of art theory, taste, and collecting with art production, especially painting from 1550-1664, in the context of regional and urban cultures. 5 units, not given this year
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5.00 Credits
Memorial prints, shini-e, issued upon the death of celebrated kabuki actors to celebrate the actor's life and ask for patron support for his descendants. They often included the actor's own death poem. Intellectual issues include the performative self in traditional Japan, the afterlife, commercialism of the theatrical milieu, lineage, fandom, and death protocols. Sources include a loan collection of more than 400 shini-e; students give intellectual shape to this material and present it as an exhibit at the Cantor. 5 units, not given this year
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3.00 Credits
(Same as JAPANLIT 287.) Printed objects produced during the Edo period (1600-1868), including the Ukiyo-e ( pictures of the floating world) and lesser-studied genres such as printed books ( ehon) and popular broadsheets ( kawaraban). How a society constructs itself through images. The borders of the acceptable and censorship; theatricality, spectacle, and slippage; the construction of play, set in conflict against the dominant neo-Confucian ideology of fixed social roles. Prerequisites: 2, 186, 187, 188. GER:DB-Hum 5 units, Spr (Takeuchi, M)
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5.00 Credits
The tea ceremony, a premodern multimedia phenomenon, integrates architecture, garden design, ceramics, painting, calligraphy, and treasured objects into a choreographed ritual wherein host, objects, and guests perform roles on a tiny stage. Aesthetic, philosophical, and political dimensions. The evolution of tea taste including its inception in Zen monasteries, use for social control during the 16th century, the development of a class of tea connoisseurs, and 20thcentury manipulation by the emerging industrialist class. 5 units, not given this year
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5.00 Credits
Visual forms of spatial representation of Africa and implications for understanding the cultures they depict. Examples include early Renaissance cartography and written accounts by explorers, travelers, geographers, and missionaries. African concepts of design, meaning in architecture, and spatial solutions. Case studies of African models. 5 units, not given this year
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5.00 Credits
African art and its intersection with art concepts, museum politics, art display, and colonialism. African art collections in major institutions around the world. Methodologies. Final class exhibition using art from the Cantor Arts Center collection. 5 units, not given this year
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5.00 Credits
5 units, not given this year
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5.00 Credits
Historiography and methodology. 5 units, Aut (Gough, M)
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