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COURSES SPRING 2009

Histart 34

ARTS OF CHINA (4 units) Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:30-5 103 Moffitt, CCN: 05466 Ellen Huang

An introduction to the arts of China, designed for newcomers to the history of art or to the study of Chinese culture. Lectures will survey six millennia of Chinese art thematically and chronologically, including the burial arts of the Neolithic period through the Tang dynasty (4th M. BCE-10th C. CE), Buddhist and Daoist ritual arts, and painting and calligraphy. Lectures, readings, and discussions will introduce students to various systems of Chinese thought, modes of visual analysis, and art historical method. (As)

 

 

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