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HA 284.201 Introduction to Asian
Painting
This course offers an introduction to the variety of forms and range of representational and expressive means encountered among the religious and secular painting of India, China, and Japan. Students will learn how to understand the iconography and imagery of select masterworks in a variety of genres, ranging from Buddhist religious murals to Japanese Ukiyoe prints to the monumental landscape paintings of China. The course will emphasize the historical and cultural contexts in which the works were produced. In addition, students will be introduced to the significance of shifts in iconography within traditions, and to possible motivations for differing visual interpretations of comparable themes across cultures. (Cost: 1 WL: 2 ) (3 credits) (Hammers, Roslyn) |