Examination of art produced in China from the 17th, century to 1949, with a focus on work created in, four cities: Suzhou, Guangzhou, Beijing, and, Shanghai. Considerations of relationships between, the built environment and artist production;, definitions of modernity; artistic conventions and, religious beliefs of the Manchu court; impacts of, trade with Europe and America on visual culture;, responses to new reproductive technologies,, including lithography and photography; woodblock, print and film as mediums of political protest.
- Teacher: Dawn Odell