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This course looks at the history and aesthetics of various arts in China (painting, calligraphy, photography, sculpture, architecture, installation, performance art, video or digital art, etc.), their role in Chinese culture, and in shaping the characteristics of Chinese art in the global context. The following themes will be dealt with: the aesthetic evaluation of these arts and their unique artistic features;; the roles of the artist and the spectator in the context of globalization;; the
transformation of Chinese art from a perspective of cross-­cultural exchange;; the influence of Chinese art on the West;; the aesthetic valuation of expressiveness and descriptiveness in art;; and the cultural correlation between art and society. Historically, the course will cover the following areas: the artistic importance of the Lingnan School paintings in the late Qing dynasty (c.1850-­1911), the evolution of Western and traditional painting in China (1911-­1949), the art development during the Cultural Revolution (1966-­1976), the cross-­cultural exchange between Chinese art and Western art (1976-­1989), and the question of “Chineseness” under the conditions of globalization and digitization (1989-­now). We will deal with these topics by examining major works of art and by analyzing primary texts as well as contemporary scholarly writings. 

Detailed Course Outline is available on Blackboard.

Week 1: The Global Context for Chinese Art: 20th-­Century Western Art

Week 2: (before 1900) Summary of Chinese Art History

Week 3: (1900-­1966) The New & the Old: Traditional & Foreign Influences

Week 4: (1966-­1989) The Modern and the Post-­Modern

Week 5: (1989-­now) Chinese Art and the Individual

Week 6: (1989-­now) Chinese Art and the Global Cities

Week 7: (after 1900) Chinese Art in the World

Week 8: (after 1900) Hong Kong Art: The Colonial and the Post-­Colonial

Week 9: Field Trip: Art & Cultural Places

Week 10: Exhibition Curatorial Writing

Week 11: Seminar Topic 1: Cross-­Cultural Exchange in the Global Context

Week 12: Seminar Topic 2: Orientalism and Exoticism

Week 13: Seminar Topic 3: Post-­Modernism and Globalism

Week 14: Seminar Topic 4: The City and the Body in Art

Seminar presentation (30%)

Exhibition curatorial leaflet (20%)

Final paper (50%)

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