The Arts of China
Autumn 2016
Instructor: Deng Fei
Classroom Location: HGX2812
Days & Hours: Friday 3-5
Office: HGX2817.
Office Phone: 55664415
Mobile Phone: 15601869787
Office Hours: by appointment
Email: dengfei@fudan.edu.cn
Textbook:
Michael Sullivan: The Arts of China, 5th eds, Berkeley, 2008.
Craig Clunas: Art in China, Oxford, 2009.
R.L.Thorp and R.E. Vinograd: Chinese Art and Culture, New York, 2001.
Course Objectives:
This course is a chronological and thematic survey of Chinese art from the Shang period to the 20th century. Topics will cover major categories of Chinese arts, such as jade, bronze, painting, calligraphy and ceramics, in different contexts. The goal of this course is to consider the interrelationship between the visual properties of art objects and their materials, techniques, and the social, religious, and cultural contexts of their production. There are no prerequisites for this course. The course targets the enhancement of the following skills: to provide an understanding of the development of Chinese art; to increase knowledge and understanding of Chinese art and archaeology in general, and key art work and archaeological finds in particular; to increase student’s ability to evaluate ideas and arguments critically.
Course Requirements:
Students are expected to attend all lectures and sections and participate in discussion. Each student needs to give a 15-20 minute oral presentation on Chinese art and archaeology in the 15/16th weeks. At the end of the course, students are required to write a research paper related to Chinese art. The paper should incorporate readings from the course syllabus in addition to other sources. Students may consult with the instructor before deciding on a final topic.
Grading:
Attendance and Participation: 10%
Oral Presentation : 30%
Research Paper: 60%
Course Schedule:
Week 1 Introduction (Sep 9)
Art of the Early Bronze Age
Week 2 Art of the Western Zhou (Sep 23)
Week 3 Art of the Eastern Zhou (Sep 30)
Week 4 Art of the Qin and Han Periods (Oct 14)
Week 5 Art of the Three Kingdoms and the Six Dynasties (Oct 28)
Week 6 Elite and Court Art of the Sui and Tang Dynasties (Nov 4)
Week 7 Religious and Mortuary Art of the Sui and Tang Dynasties (Nov 11)
Week 8 Court and Elite Art of the Five Dynasties and the Song Period (Nov 18)
Week 9 Religious and Mortuary Art of the Song Periods (Nov 25)
Week 10 Art of the Literati of the Yuan Period (Dec 2)
Week 11 Art of the Ming Period (Dec 9)
Week 12 Art of the Qing Period (Dec 16)
Week 13 Oral Presentations (Dec 23)
Week 14 Oral Presentations (Dec 30)
Recommended Reading:
L. Michael and E. L. Shaughnessy eds., The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C., New York, 1999.
K.C. Chang, Archaeology of Ancient China, 4th eds, New Heaven, 1987.
W. Fong, The Great Bronze Age of China, New York, 1980.
J. Rawson ed., The British Museum Book of Chinese Art, London, 1992.
R. Barnhart et al., Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting, New Haven, 1997.
W. Fong, Beyond Representation: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, 8th－14th Century, New York, 1992.
W. Fong and James Watt, Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, New York, 1996.
S. Bush and C. Murck eds., Theories of the Arts in China, Princeton, 1983.
A. Murck and W Fong eds., Words and Images, New York, 1991.
S. Abe, Ordinary Images, Chicago, 2002.
R. Whitfield and A. Farrer, Caves of the Thousand Buddhas: Chinese Art from the Silk Route, London, 1990.
S. Little, Taoism and the Arts of China, Chicago, 2000.
J. Cahill, Hills Beyond a River: Chinese Painting of the Yuan Dynasty, 1279－1368, New York, 1976.
J. Cahill, The Compelling Image; Nature and Style in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Painting, Cambridge, Mass., 1982.
Kao Mayching, Twentieth-Century Chinese Painting, Hong Kong 1988.