Overview of ceramics, calligraphy, painting,, prints, sculpture, and architecture produced in, China, focusing on select key works created from, the neolithic to the contemporary moment., Exploration of key theoretical problems and ways, of looking especially important to the history of, art. Multiple perspectives and methods of analysis, provided through lectures, scheduled discussions,, and museum fieldwork. Key works are situated in a, variety of contexts: the role of art in religious, and memorial practices, the social status of the, artist, art as a tool of power and politics, art, as constructor of gender and identity, the, potentials and limitations of various technical, media.
- Teacher: Dawn Odell