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HA 393.001 Junior Proseminar: The Dialogue
with Asia in Modern Art (3) (III.3) This seminar aims to explore ways in which the art of "Asia" has been adopted, adapted or represented in the art and criticism of Europe and the U.S. since the 18th century. This course is unusual in that students will have the opportunity to encounter, not only Western accounts of Asia in modern art, but Asian perspectives as well. This should help students to appreciate more fully which ideas and techniques were adapted from Asian practices, which were fabricated, and whether the Asian connection was broadcast or suppressed and why. The bulk of the reading
will focus upon China, with a substantial section on Japan. The
reading material will be divided into three areas in which references
to Asia have been historically significant, namely: (1) the "natural"
garden and Rousseuian rhetoric; (2) Japonisme and formalism;
(3) "Zen" painting, the "gestural" brush,
and other arenas in which "Eastern" philosophy has
been recruited into the language of modern art. In addition to
participating in class discussion, students will choose a research
topic pertinent to one of the three areas of interest listed
above. They will deliver an oral report on their research during
the term, and will work that into a research paper to be handed
in at the end of the term. The grade will be based upon the oral
report, the final paper, and participation in class discussion.
Cost: 2 WL:1 (Powers) |