JAPN 270
Japanese Art and Culture Spring 2013
Division I
Cross-listed ARTH 270
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This course is a survey of traditional Japanese painting, sculpture, architecture, woodblock prints, and decorative arts. Special attention will be paid to the developments in artistic style and subject matter in the contexts of contemporary cultural phenomena. Through visual analysis students learn the aesthetic, religious, and political ideals and cultural meanings conveyed in the works of art. This course offers students a solid grasp of the social, cultural, and art histories of Japan, and how Japan’s foreign relations influenced the development of its artistic trends. Course highlights include the transmission of Buddhism and its art to Japan; the relationship between words and images; Zen Buddhism and its art (dry gardens; temples; and tea ceremony related art forms) in the samurai culture; the sex industry and kabuki theater, their art, and censorship; and the affinities between Japanese woodblock prints and Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings.
The Class: Format: lecture
Limit: 35
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: three 30- to 40-minute quizzes, two short papers, film screening, class attendance
Prerequisites: none
Distributions: Division I
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
JAPN 270 Division I ARTH 270 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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