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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 160A.) Paintings, sculptures, photography, and mixed media works. Styles, cultural and social histories, patronage, and critical reception. The problems of studying the production of artists of color as a separate field; alternatives to the category of African American art; and the outlook for new critical methodologies. 4 units, Spr (Staff)
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3.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 173.) Major figures, themes, and movements of contemporary art from the 80s to the present. Readings on the neoavant garde; postmodernism; art and identity politics; new media and technology; globalization and participatory aesthetics. Prerequisite: ARTHIST 155, or equivalent with consent of instructor. 4 units, Spr (Lee, P)
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 182.) 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. Innovations in architectural and ceramic technologies; developments in landscape painting and theory; proliferation of art texts and discourses; 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. 4 units, not given this year
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 182A.) 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. 4 units, Sum (Vinograd, R)
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 184.) The changes marking the transition from medieval to early modern Japanese society generated a revolution in visual culture as exemplified in subjects deemed fit for representtation; how commoners joined elites in pictorializing their world, catalyzed by interactions with the Dutch. 4 units, not given this year
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 185.) 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. 4 units, Win (Vinograd, R)
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 185B.) 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. 4 units, Aut (Vinograd, R)
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 187, 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. 4 units, Win (Takeuchi, M)
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4.00 Credits
(Same as ARTHIST 188A.) 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 191.) 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. 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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