ARHT2640 - Modern and Contemporary Asian Art

Undergraduate

UoS Description:

In Asia there has developed both the nationalist art of a series of modernising states and a counter-establishment art which has frequently been formally modern. Students will learn how to analyse art works and institutions in terms of critical notions of modernity which arise in these Asian contexts but which do not require projection from outside. Focus will chiefly be on China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and India since the 1850s. Other examples will be drawn from Japan, Thailand and Indonesia.

UoS Learning Situations:

One 2 hour lecture and one 1 hour tutorial per week

UoS Assessment:

One essay and one tutorial paper to a total of 4000-4500 words

UoS Readings/References:

ARHT2640 Course Reader

Prerequisites:

ARHT1001 and ARHT1002 or ASNS1001 and ASNS1002 or ASNS1001 and ASNS1101

Prohibition:

ARHT2040