The Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory featured course:
ARTH 360—Chinese Painting: Word and Image
2019 Winter Term 2 (Tuesdays/Thursdays, 9:30–11:00), with Dr. Julia Orell
This course examines the history of Chinese art and visual culture from the (early) modern to the contemporary period, both within China and internationally. From the Qing empire through the Opium wars and foreign treaty ports, to the Chinese revolution(s) and the Maoist and post-Maoist era, the course explores how Chinese artists appropriated media and artistic styles from elsewhere (copperplate, oil painting, photography, socialist realism, German expressionism, Pop) and how Chinese art and visual culture spread across the globe from Chinoiserie to the global art market of the late twentieth century. Throughout the course questions about modernity, modernism, and contemporaneity and about the “Chinese-ness” of Chinese art in a globalizing world will be foregrounded.
ARTH 360 counts as Faculty of Arts upper-level credit and as general elective or toward the Art History or Visual Art major and minor. No prerequisite.
Image: Gu Kaizhi, Nymph of the Luo River, Palace Museum Beijing
