ARHA 279-01 Art of China and Japan: Ritual Bronzes to Zen Gardens Fall 2014 M. and W. 11: am -12:20 pm; Wyllys Rm.110 Office hours: Tu 3:00-4:00 pm, Freeman Center, Rm. 204 This course surveys major modes and styles of artistic representation and expression in East Asia, with a focus on China and Japan. Because of the extraordinary early influence of Chinese civilization on its East Asian neighbours, we will consider not only the impact of religion, thought, and social-economic forces on the arts of each country, but also patterns of reception and transformation. Major topics include literati painting, narrative scrolls, calligraphy, pictorial carving and sculpture, court art, Zen Buddhism, ceramics, and wood-block prints. Major Textbooks: Michael Sullivan. The Arts of China. Fifth Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. Joan Stanley-Baker. Japanese Art. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2000. ISBN 9780500203262 Supplemental textbooks: Clunas, Craig. Art in China. Second Edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN 9780199217342 Mason, Penelope. History of Japanese Art. Second Edition. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, c2005. ISBN 2004044653 Examination and Assignments: Two three-page papers (30%), one final paper (20%), one mid-term exam (20%) and final exam (30%). W1 (9/1, 3) Introduction; Ritual bronzes and Jomon pottery [Sullivan, Mason, Stanley-Baker] W2 (9/8, 10) Quest for immortality, silver and gold (Eastern Zhou, Qin and Han dynasties); haniwa (Kofun period) [Sullivan, Mason, Stanley-Baker] W3 (9 /15, 17) Buddhism and Buddhist art [Sullivan, Stanley-Baker] W4 (9/22, 24) 9/24: first paper due Cosmopolitan Tang and Nara [Sullivan, Stanley-Baker] W5 (9/29, 10/1) Song dynasty: the Classical period of Chinese art [Sullivan, Vinograd] W6 (10/6, 8) Heian-period courtly art: emakimono; calligraphy [Mason, Stanley-Baker] W7 (10/13, 15) (Break) China under Mongol rule (Yuan dynasty); the samurai Japan (Kamakura period) [Sullivan, Stanley-Baker] W8.2 (10/22) Mid-term exam W9 (10/27, 29) Chan and Zen (Southern Song and Muromachi) [Sullivan, Stanley-Baker] W10 (11/3, 5) The Brilliant Empire: Ming dynasty [Sullivan] W11 (11/10, 12) 11/12: second paper due Momoyama period: the way of tea [Mason, Stanley-Baker] W12 (11/17, 19) (Kathy Tsiang talk 11/19) Ming-Qing transition and the Edo period [Sullivan, Stanley-Baker] W13 (11/24) (11/26 Thanksgiving break) Art of the Floating World [Mason, Stanley-Baker] W14 (12/1, 3) 12/3: last paper due Modern and Contemporary Books and articles on reserve at Olin: Art in China/Clunas, Craig Oxford history of art, 2009. 2nd ed. N7340 .C59 2009 The Arts of China / Sullivan, Michael Fifth ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008 N7340.D92 2008 Chinese art & culture / Thorp, Robert L. and Richard Ellis Vinograd 2001 NX583 .A1 T49 2001 Japanese art / Stanley-Baker, Joan World of art, 2000, Rev. and expanded ed. N7350 .S7 2000 History of Japanese Art / Mason, Penelope Mason. Second Edition. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall, c2005. Reading assignments Xiaoneng Yang, "A History of Modern Chinese Archaeology," in Xiaoneng Yang, ed., A Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology (Washington, DC., 1999), pp. 25-45. Edward Kamens, "‘The Tale of Genji’ and ‘Yashima’ Screens in Local and Global Contexts," Yale University Gallery Bulletin, Japanese Art at Yale (2007), 100-120.