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Subject: Art History (Grad) (ARHS)
CRN: 41336
Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 311
Requirements Met:
Art History Museum Studies
In 2018, a painting of a tree and rock sold at Christie’s Hong Kong for just over $60 million. The Chinese landscape tradition this painting represents stretches back three thousand years. This course examines the extensive history of this vibrant landscape painting tradition and its continued effect on contemporary transnational Chinese artists. Each course meeting will examine one contemporary artist and the many current and traditional dialogues (hashtags) of which she/he is a part. The various dynamic conversations, or streams of “metadata,” associated with the Chinese landscape and contemporary Western traditions found in her/his work will be the area of concentration for each class. The focal artists we examine will include Wu Guanzhong, Chen Chi-kwan, Zhang Hongtu, Xu Bing, Zao Wou-Ki, Cai Guo-Qiang, Liu Dan, Yang Yongliang, Qiu Zhijie, and Lin Tianmiao. Centuries-long dialogues regarding Song monumental and imperial mountainscapes, garden and topographical painting, literati ink studies, Chan Buddhist apparition painting, and kesi woven-silk works will be considered. Students are not expected to have a background in Chinese studies. All readings will be in English.
3 Credits