ARTH 103
Asian Art Survey: From the Land of the Buddha to the World of the Geisha Fall 2014
Division I Exploring Diversity Initiative
Cross-listed ASST 103
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This course introduces to students some of the most enduring masterpieces of Asian art with an emphasis on the art of India, China, and Japan. Its contextual approach helps students gain insight into the aesthetic, religious, and political ideas and cultural meanings conveyed by the works of art. It also provides students with the vocabulary, techniques, and patterns of thinking needed for advanced art history courses. Highlights include sexual symbolism in Hindu and Buddhist art; nature or landscape painting as moral and political rhetoric; the relationship between words and images; the sex industry and kabuki theater and their art in Edo Japan; and the meeting of the East and West. This course is one of the three foundational courses; art history majors may choose any two of the three courses Arth 101, Arth 102, and Arth 103 to fulfill the foundational requirements. As an EDI course, its historical, visual, and thematic analyses will bear upon the interconnectedness not only among these three distinctively different cultures, but their respective interactions with the West.
The Class: Format: lecture
Limit: 35
Grading: OPG
Requirements/Evaluation: evaluation will be based on three 30- to 40-minute quizzes, two short papers, film screening and class attendance
Extra Info: may not be taken on a pass/fail basis
Prerequisites: none; highly recommended for first-year students
Enrollment Preferences: none
Unit Notes: can be taken with either ARTH 101 or ARTH 102 as the foundational requirement for the Art History route to the major
Distributions: Division I Exploring Diversity Initiative
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ARTH 103 Division I ASST 103 Division I
Attributes: ARTH pre-1400 Courses
ARTH pre-1800 Courses
ARTH Middle East, Asia and Africa Courses
ASST Interdepartmental Electives
INST East Asian Studies Electives

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