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ART IN CHINA:

NEOLITHIC PERIOD

TO

CONTEMPORARY TIMES

 

Taught by Julie Chun, MA

 

This course is a survey of art in China that takes museum objects beyond a formalist approach to examine the religious, political and social context in which the artifacts were created and used. China is, like Italy and Greece, a veritable hunting ground for art and objets d'art. Simple acts such as a farmer digging for a well has revealed ancient artifacts and funerary objects in areas that have been perceived as dormant but are being resuscitated with new life. In order to shed recent scholarship upon ancient material objects, this course organizes sculptures, jades, ceramics, and paintings according to sites. The tombs of the aristocrats, the courts of the rulers, the temples of religious observances and even the market-place will be explored as sites of production for sanctioning China's artistic culture. The course incorporates conducted tours to the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai Art Museum and Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai.

 

About the Presenter

 

Educated in California, Julie Chun received her BA in Economics at UC Irvine and MA in Art History and Visual Culture at San Jose State University. In addition, she has completed a year’s worth of Master’s study in Asian History at Yonsei Graduate School of International Studies in Seoul as well as post-Baccalaureate work in Modern Art History at UCLA in Los Angeles. Her interest lies in examining Western and Eastern material culture within the recovered social, political, and economic context of the objects’ production and consumption. Julie is an enthused scholar who strives to engage her students with the objects presented in her course. She finds great joy in sharing with her students the exciting and historic developments of Art in Asia.

 

Timetable and Tuition fee :

 

Date: 22 May 2012 - 10 July 2012 (8 weeks)

 

Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm (Every Tuesday Afternoon)

 

TUITION FEE: 3800 RMB

 

 

ANNUAL HOLIDAYS *

 

There will be no lectures on scheduled Public Holidays 2012

Labour day Holiday                                                  29 Apr - 1 May

Dragon Boat festival                                                 22 Jun - 24 Jun

Moon cake festival                                                              30 Sep

National Day Holiday                                                  1 Oct - 7 Oct

Christmas Holidays                                22 Dec 2012 - 10 Jan 2013

Chinese New Year                                   9 Feb 2013 - 24 Feb 2013

 

* Subject to confirmation and change

 

 

COURSE CURRICULUM

 

Week 1

Introduction

The difference between “Chinese Art” and “Art in China”

Course overview

Art in the Tomb

Neolithic to Bronze Age

The First Empires

North and South

Tomb Sculptures

 

Week 2

Art at Court

Tang to early Song

Northern Song Court Art

Southern Song Court Art

Yuan Court Art

Ming Court Art

Early Qing Court Art

The Qianlong Reign

Late Qing Court Art

 

Week 3

Art in the Temple

Early Buddhist Art

Buddhist Art

Religious Art of the Sui and Tang Dynasties

Religious Art of the Northern Song Dynasty

Southern Song Religious Art

Buddhist Monks and the Elite in the Southern Song

Buddhist Art in the Yuan Dynasty

Religious Painting of the 14th - 15th Centuries

Religious Art of the Ming Dynasty

Religious Art of the Qing Dynasty

 

Week 4

Class to meet at the Shanghai Museum

 

Week 5

Art in the Life of the Elite

Calligraphy as an Elite Art

Art and Theory in the Northern Song

The Southern Song and Yuan

The Ming Dynasty

The Art and Theory of Dong Qichang

The 17th Century and the Ming-Qing Transition

The Qing Dynasty

 

Week 6

Art in the Market Place

The Song and Yuan Dynasties

The Ming Dynasty: Painting

The Ming Dynasty: Printing

The Ming Dynasty: Textiles and Crafts

The Amateur/Professional Problem in Late Ming Painting

The Qing Dynasty

Prints and Perspective

 

Week 7

Shifting Trends

Shanghai Art in the Nineteenth Century

The Republic of China

Art in the People’s Republic of China

Art in China since the 1970s

Class Presentations

 

Week 8

Exploring the Public and Private Spaces of Chinese Museums

Class to meet at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai  and Shanghai Art Museum

 

Please check our Lecture Calendar for Course Schedule.

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