History of Oriental Art I-E2
| Numbering Code | U-LAS02 10024 LE35 | Year/Term | 2022 ・ First semester | |
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| Number of Credits | 2 | Course Type | Lecture | |
| Target Year | All students | Target Student | For all majors | |
| Language | English | Day/Period | Thu.2 | |
| Instructor name | FORTE，Erika (Institute for Research in Humanities Professor) | |||
| Outline and Purpose of the Course |
The topic of this course is "A survey on the history of Chinese painting from the Han dynasty (206 BCE- 220 CE) through the Song dynasty (960-1279)." While tracing the general development of pictorial art in China, attention will be paid to major themes such as narrative painting, landscape painting, the relationship between poetry and painting, devotional (particularly Buddhist) and secular pictorial representations, and the connection between painting and calligraphy. |
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| Course Goals |
-To gain a grounding in the study of the ancient Chinese painting and acquire art historical skills to identify major painted works of art of ancient China. -To enable a broader understanding of ancient China’s artistic production process in relation to historical and cultural context of the period under examination. |
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| Schedule and Contents |
1. General introduction to the course 2. Methodology and general overview on the history of painting in China 3. Painting during the Han 漢 period (206 BCE-220 CE) 4. Painting between the 3rd and the 6th century 5. Sui 隋代 and Tang 唐代 periods painting (581-906) 6. Buddhism and Buddhist painting 7. Murals from the Liao 遼 tombs (10th c.) 8. Song period 宋代 painting: general tendencies (960-1279) 9. Landscape painting 10. The Qingming scroll 清明上河圖 11 + 12. Museum visit (It is equivalent to two classes and is held on the 3rd Sunday of June) 13. Other themes in painting, 10th to 13th centuries 14. Summary of the course 15. Submission of take-home exams 16. Feedback (on request) |
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| Evaluation Methods and Policy | Attendance and participation are mandatory. Evaluation is based on preparation to class activities and active involvement in class discussion (20%); participation to museum excursion and related activity (a short report) (30%); final exam (a take home exam) (50%). | |||
| Course Requirements | No special prerequisites. A general knowledge on the history of China, although not compulsory, is recommended. Students might opt to combine this course with that of Oriental History I in the same semester. | |||
| Study outside of Class (preparation and review) | Classes are taught with the frontal method. Art works are shown in PowerPoint presentations. Students will be instructed, at the end of each class, on the relevant literature for reviewing the lesson. There will be some activities for which students are required to prepare before the classes. Activities include discussion and analysis of one or two artworks, the preparation consists in a small research on the artworks or in a reading. There will be a museum excursion equivalent to two classes. The final exam is a take home exam, which consists in a short essay. Preparation to this exam is based on notes that students have taken during the classes, on the material provided by the instructor and on the suggested readings. | |||
| Textbooks | Textbooks/References | Relevant literature will be announced in class. Further learning material will be provided on PandA | ||
| References, etc. |
Three thousand years of Chinese painting, Barnhart, Richard M., Yang Xin, Nie Chonzheng, James Cahill, Lang Shaojun, and Wu Hung (eds.), (Yale University Press), ISBN:0300070136 Chinese Art and Culture, Robert Thorp and Richard Ellis Vinograd, (Harry N. Abrams), ISBN:0810941457 Reference books are available at the Kyoto University libraries |
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