COURSE MATERIALS
Syllabus (PDF)
Lecture Handouts:
01. Unearthing the Past: Neolithic China: art history
02. The Shang-dynasty Royal Tombs at Anyang: sign
03. The Sacrificial Pits at Sanxingdui: simulacrum
04. Silent Music: The Underground Orchestra of the Zhou-dynasty Marquis Yi of Zeng: style
05. Producing the Qin Emperor's Army: production
06. Mawangdui: Ritual Objects, Mummies, and the "Afterlife:" representation
07. The Wu Family Shrines, Filial Piety, and Broadway Boogie Woogie: context
08. Buddhism: Northern Qi and Northern Wei: appropriation
09. Buddhism: Tang-dynasty Longmen and Dunhuang: display
10. Brushes with Power: Calligraphy: word and image
11. Secular Painting of the Eastern Jin: gender
12. The Tang Court and Treasure of the Silk Road: genre
13. Pilgrimage in Northern Song Monumental Landscapes: realism
14. The Spring Festival on the River: A Donkey, An Ox, and the Question of Interpretation: narrative
15. Chan (Japanese: Zen) Buddhism: icon and iconoclasm
16. Painting and Architecture at the Court of the Khans: multiculturalism
17. The "Four Masters of the Yuan:" Voices of Dissent: identity
18. Ming-dynasty Figure Painting: the body
19. Ming Gardens: space, place and landscape
20. Ming-dynasty Print Culture: modernism
21. Qing-dynasty Yimin Remnant Painters: memory, monument
22. Jesuits at the Qing Court: patronage
23. The Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou: commodity
24. Photography and Painting in 19th-century Shanghai: visuality
25. Painting in Republican-era Beijing and Shanghai : value
26. Socialist Realism: propaganda and kitsch
27. Art Now: postmodernism