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Subject: Art History (Grad) (ARHS)
CRN: 41528
Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 311
Requirements Met:
Art History Museum Studies
This course will consider Chinese objects generally excluded from Chinese and Western art-historical narratives of "fine art" that focus on calligraphy, painting, sculpture, and bronze vessels. The object types under examination will encompass imperial, scholar, and merchant family collectables including ceramics, jewelry, silks, and tapestry, paper sculpture and prints, stone and marble items, wood carving, and silver and gold utensils. We will examine not only the objects and art-historical narratives surrounding them, but also various current methodologies museum professionals, social historians, and material culture historians are applying to their study. The issues and methodologies we address in relation to these objects will include production and technique; surface aesthetics; craft and craft history; folk art; commerce, colonialism, and consumption; museology; private and public collecting practices; Orientalism and self-Orientalism; the local and the global lives of objects; the miniature; the economic history of luxury objects in global perspective; and cultural encounters, artistic exchange, and hybridity.
3 Credits