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COURSES FALL 2007

Histart 131B

LATER CHINESE PAINTING (4 UNITS) Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00-12:30 106 Moffit, CCN 05462 Patricia Berger

Beginning with the Mongol Yuan dynasty (1280-1368) and ending with China's final imperial dynasty, the Qing (1644-1911), this course will cover the history of Chinese painting in a variety of genres, elite and popular, secular and religious.  The course will generally follow a chronological path that explores several different aspects of the complex culture of painting in China.  These will include, among others, scholar painting and theories of painting, the issue of amateur vs. professional artists, Buddhist painting and its relationship to non-Chinese (particularly Tibetan) traditions, and the work and traditional criticism of women painters. (As)

Letters in bold following individual upper division course descriptions cite the History of Art major breadth requirement fulfilled by the course.  (As=Asian, An=Ancient, Me=Medieval, R=Renaissance, B=Baroque, Mo=Modern.)

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