ARTH 299

Fall 2012 All Classes

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Spec Topics in Art History

Credit: 3 hours.

Special topics in Art History Courses. Topics and subject matter to be published in course listings.

May be repeated up to 6 hours in a semester, to a maximum of 12 total hours. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing in Art and Design.

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ARTH 299 class schedule data for fall 2012
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	48337	Lecture	AH1	2:00PM -2:50PM	MWF	302 Architecture Building	Burkus-Chasson, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/27/12-12/12/12 Section Info: Topic: Ecologies of Art in East Asia. This course is about environmental criticism. We shall examine several different Chinese and Japanese art forms, focusing on both the methods of their manufacture and the sustainability of these methods. The emphasis of our discussions will rest on the materiality of the art form, rather than on its value in either iconographical systems or art-historical chronologies. How the fabrication of certain things embodied the society that used them, and how practices of manufacture impacted the environment in which they were used, are issues that we shall strive to understand through writings and artistic projects. Based on a series of case studies, this course ranges broadly to cover both traditional and contemporary art forms, such as garden designs of 16th- and 17th-century China and Japan; the ceramic industry in 16th-18th-century Japan; the bronze industry in ancient China; and artistic responses to the construction of Three Gorges Dam in 21st-century China.