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SyllabusforFa20-FAH-0005-01-IntroArtsOfAsia

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FallSemester,2020 Classmeetings:Times:M/W4:305:45pm Instructor:Prof.IkumiKaminishi Office:DepartmentofArt&ArtHistory,11TalbotAve.,3rdFloor Contact:(617)6272424or[email protected](mailto:[email protected]) Officehours:Tuesdays1:30–4:00pmorbyappointment

TeachingAssistants: NatalieGearin([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) Officehours:Wednesdays,5:456:45pm SophiaWright([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) Officehours:Mondays,5:456:45pm

DescriptionoftheCourse: ThiscourseexploresvisualartsandculturesofAsia(primarilyfromIndia,China,andJapan).Through theexaminationsofartobjects—sculpture,painting,architecture,andritualobjects—theclasswillstudy thethemessurroundingartandritual,politicalinterestsinart,nationalidentityissues,socialclassesand artisticrepresentations,andthelinksbetweenliteratureandvisualarts.Wealsostudythebasictenets ofHinduism,Buddhism,andConfucianismtounderstandassociatedartisticconcepts.

LearningObjectivesforArtHistory: TofamiliarizewithvisualartsandculturesofAsia Todevelopanabilitytoanalyze,interpret,andwriteonvisualworksofartfromAsia. TolearntocontextualizeculturalandhistoricalsignificanceofAsianartworks. Criticalthinkingabilityinresponsetoscholarlyliterature. Requirements,distributionofgrading,andpolicies: Shortexercises:40%(4exercisesx10%) Totalof4shortexercises,12(upto3)pageseach.Instructionswillbeannouncedinclass. https://canvas.tufts.edu/courses/21691/assignments/syllabus

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Shortresearchpapers:60%(3exercisesx20%) Totalof3shortpapers,34(upto5)pageseach.Instructionswillbeannouncedinclass. Attendanceismandatory.YourattendanceisautomaticallyrecordedasyoujointheZoomlectures. Thosewhoviewtherecordedlecturesasynchronously,pleasekeeptrackofyour"attendance." Activeengagementduringthebreakoutroomperiodsisnotedandappreciated.

Regardingpaperformatandsubmissionpolicy: UseWORDdocument,andsubmitthemonline:CANVAS UseTimesRomanfont,size12,with1inchmargin,anddoublespaced Latepaperswillbedowngradedbyathirdofafullgradeforeachday. QualityofwritingandcommandoftheEnglishlanguagecounttowardyourgrade.Pleaseedityour paperseveraltimesbeforesubmitting.

OnAcademicHonesty: TuftsUniversityexpectsallstudentstoadheretotheUniversity’scodeofconductandpolicies.Any violationofacademicintegrity(cheating,plagiarism,etc.)isnottolerated,andreportedtotheJudicial AffairsOfficerintheOfficeoftheDeanofStudentAffairs. Ifyouarenotsurehowtocitesourcescorrectly,pleasecontactme.Iamhappytoguideyouthroughthe propercitationandbibliographyformats,footnote,etc. Whenwritinganacademicpaper,followtherulesspecifiedintheChicagoManualofStyleOnline: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org.ezproxy.library.tufts.edu/home.html (http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org.ezproxy.library.tufts.edu/home.html)

Fordescriptivearthistoricalwriting,follow: Barnet,Sylvan.AShortGuidetoWritingaboutArt,anexcept[CANVAS] TofollowtheguidancedictatedbytheUniversity,ImayutilizeTurnItInintheTrunklearningmanagement systemtohelpdeterminetheoriginalityofyourwork.TurnItInisanautomatedsystemwhichinstructors canusetocompareeachstudent'sassignmentwithbillionsofwebsites,aswellasanenormous databaseofstudentpapersthatgrowswitheachsubmission.WhenpapersaresubmittedtoTurnItIn, theservicewillretainacopyofthesubmittedworkintheTurnItIndatabaseforthesolepurposeof detectingplagiarisminfuturesubmittedworks.Studentsretaincopyrightontheiroriginalcoursework. Formoreinformation,seeTurnitin.comorreviewTufts’AcademicIntegrity (https://students.tufts.edu/studentaffairs/studentlifepolicies/academicintegritypolicy)policies.

Onlinedatabase;youmayusesourcesyoufoundinthefollowinginyourassignments https://canvas.tufts.edu/courses/21691/assignments/syllabus

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JSTOR:Onlinedatabaseofacademicpeerreviewedarticles https://wwwjstororg.ezproxy.library.tufts.edu/action/showAdvancedSearch (https://www jstororg.ezproxy.library.tufts.edu/action/showAdvancedSearch)

ArtOnline:OxfordArtOnline,excellentencyclopedia http://www.oxfordartonline.com.ezproxy.library.tufts.edu/subscriber/advanced_search (http://www.oxfordartonline.com.ezproxy.library.tufts.edu/subscriber/advanced_search)

MetMuseum:HeilbrunnTimelineofArtHistory,MetropolitanMuseumofArt,NYC https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Heilbrunn_Timeline_of_Art_History (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Heilbrunn_Timeline_of_Art_History)

Dictionary:OnlineArtDictionary,Artopium:Arttermencyclopedia https://artterms.artopium.com/index.htm (https://artterms.artopium.com/index.htm)

Textbookandassignedreadings: Neave,Dorinda,LaraBlanchard,andMarikaSardar.AsianArt.PearsonEducation,Inc. Variousjournalarticles,availablethroughJSTOR. ExcerptsofchaptersandsectionsfromselectbooksonCANVAS

SCHEDULE(subjecttochange) Note:Readassignedsourcesbeforeclass(exceptforthefirstdayoftheclass)

Week1.Wednesday9/9Introduction Topics: Introductionofthecourse IntroductionofTeachingAssistants Gooverthecoursesyllabus(schedule,assignments,etc.) Textbook Expectations AshortlectureonIndusValleyCultureatHarappaandMohenjoDaro Read:1)Neave,etal.AsianArt:“Introduction” 2)Barnet,Sylvan.AShortGuidetoWritingaboutArt,pp.46–59.[CANVAS]

PART1—INDIA:BUDDHISMANDHINDUISMandArtofIconography https://canvas.tufts.edu/courses/21691/assignments/syllabus

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Week2(9/14,16)BirthofBuddhismoutofHinduBackground IndusValleyCulturereviewandtheVedicPeriod(theoriginsofHinduism) KingAshoka,the“FirstBuddhistKing”oftheMauryaDynasty Politicalauthorityandpowerofartthroughpillarsandstupas EarlyBuddhistartfromtheShungaandAndharaDynasties BiographyofShakyamuni,the“historicalBuddha”onreliefcarvings KingMara,theevilking? TheFourNobleTruthsandEightfoldMiddlePaths Read:1)Neave,etal.AsianArt,pp.314.[SomeexcerptsavailableonCANVAS] 2)Leidy,Denise.“1.PillarsandStupas.”InTheArtofBuddhism.[pdfonCANVAS] *9/16:Exercise1(Descriptivewriting)Instructionwillbegiveninclass;Dueon9/21by11:59pmon CANVAS Question:Studythereliefcarvingof“Mara’sattack”(imagesavailableonCANVAS)anddescribeit tounderstand“Howdoestheworkmean?”(Awkwardlyphrased,butthatiswhatBarnetsuggests.) Mara,depictedatleasttwiceonthesamepanel,hasdifferentappearances.Howdoeshis appearancerelateitsnarrativecontext? Helpfulsourceforthepaperassignment(youmayusethissource,butmustincludeatleastone morethatyoudiscoveredbyyourself):Boyd,JamesW.“SymbolsofEvilinBuddhism,”TheJournal ofAsianStudies,Vol.31,No.1(1971):6375.[JSTOR]

Week3(9/21,23)ArtofVisualStorytellinginAncientIndia “Aniconism”:symbolicimagesoftheBuddha HumanimagesoftheBuddhainMahayanaBuddhismfromtheKushanDynasty IconographyoftheBuddhaandbodhisattvas Whatare“bodhisattvas”? StoriesoftheBuddha’spreviouslives(jataka) Whatisjataka?Howarestoriesvisuallytold? Read:1)Neave,etal.AsianArt,pp.1417. 2)Dehejia,Vidya.“AniconismandtheMutivalenceofEmblems.”ArsOrientalis,Vol.21(1991): 45–66.[JSTOR] *9/21:Exercise1dueby11:59pmonCANVAS. *9/23:Exercise2(Formalanalysis)Instruction;Dueon9/30by11:59pmonCANVAS https://canvas.tufts.edu/courses/21691/assignments/syllabus

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Question:OnWikipedia,theentry“MahakapiJataka”givesashortsummaryofthestoryandtwo depictiveexplanationsoftwoexamples.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahakapi_Jataka (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahakapi_Jataka)

Thedifferentcompositionssuggestdifferentformalapproaches.Howwouldyouanalyzethe difference?(TryNOTtojudgethequalityofaestheticsororganization.Theyhaddifferentstandard fromeachotherandfromus.)  Week4(9/28,9/30)SculpturalStylesandIntroductiontoHinduArt KushanDynasty GuptaDynasty VakatakaDynasty Threesculpturalcenters:Gandhara,Mathura,andSarnath AjantaCaves Guptapainting ThePantheonofHinduGods Read:1)Leidy.“2.TheBuddhaImage:SecondtoSeventhCentury,”inTheArtofBuddhism.[PDFon CANVAS] 2)Neave,etal.AsianArt,pp.18–38. *9/30:Exercise2dueby11:590pmonCANVAS. Week5(10/5,7)GodShivamonumentsandSoutheastAsia Rockcutmonuments MultipleManifestationsofShiva October7th:SoutheastAsia;presentationbySophiaWright(40minutes) Read:1)Eck,Diana.“DarshanoftheImage.”IndiaInternationalCentreQuarterly,Vol.13,No.1 (1986):4353.[JSTOR] 2)Neave,etal.AsianArt,pp.103–123. *10/5Paper1(crossreligiousexploration)instruction;Dueon10/19by11:59pmonCANVAS Question:TheGuptaperiodreligiousicons(theBuddha,bodhisattvas,Hindudeities)share similarities.Whatdoesthismean?Howcanwetelltheiridentities?Dogeographicallocationshave anythingtodowithstylistictrendsorsimilarities?Choosetwoworksfromdifferentreligionsand compare,contrast,andanalyzethem.AddconcludingthoughtsonGuptareligiousart.Youmust researchanduseatleast3scholarlysources.

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PART2—CHINA:CONFUCIANISMANDLANDSCAPE:OrderofThings Week6(10/12,14)AncientChina:RitualBronzeartandmaterialculture VisionsofafterlifeintheShangandZhouDynasties Artforthedead:thecaseofLadyFuHaotomb “piecemold”bronzecastingtechnique taotiedecors Racialdiversity?ThecaseofSanxingduitomb Musicinafterlife:thecaseofMarquisYitomb TheselfclaimedFirstEmperorofChina:theQinDynasty Mythologyandfuneraryritual:thecaseofLadyDaitomb:theHanDynasty Immortality:thecaseofPrinceLiuShengtomb Read:1)Neave,etal.AsianArt,pp.124150. 2)WuHung,“ArtinaRitualContext:RethinkingMaWangdui,”EarlyChina,Vol.17(1992):111– 144.[JSTOR]

Week7(10/19,21)Threephilosophies:Confucianism,Daoism,andBuddhisminChina WuFamilyShrine:amalgamationofmythology,history,andConfucianism ThefalloftheHanEmpireSixDynastiesperiod DaoistImmortality ConfucianPropriety BuddhistintroductiontoChina Buddhistcaves:YungangandLongmen Imperialpatrons Sinicization Read:1)Neave,etal.AsianArt,150–155. 2)Tsiang,Katherine,“ChangingPatternsofDivinityandReformintheLateNorthernWei,”Art Bulletin,Vol.84,No.2(2002):222–245.[JSTOR] *10/19Paper1dueby11:59pmonCANVAS. *10/19Exercise3(Criticalresponse)instructionwillbegiveninclass:Dueon10/28by11:59pmon CANVAS Question:Whatdoes“Sinicization”mean?Howaretheyexpressed?Whatpoliticalimplications doesSinicizationhave?HowdoesKatherineTsiangexplainthephenomenon? 

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Week8(10/26,28)ChinesePaintingTraditionintheSongDynasty Figuralpainting Landscapepainting(shansui) Theoryof“distances” MonumentallandscapeoftheSongDynasty Literatisandpainting SongPaintingAcademyandEmperorHuizong Birdsandflowerspainting Read:1)Neave,etal.AsianArt,171–194. 2)Foong,Ping.“GuoXi’sIntimateLandscapesandtheCaseof‘OldTrees,LevelDistance’ MetropolitanMuseumJournal,Vol.35(2000):87115.[JSTOR]

Week9(11/2,4)ArtofPolitics LiteratipaintersoftheYuanDynasty TwoSchoolTheorybyDongQichang Mingpottery EccentricpaintersoftheQingDynasty Read:Neave,etal.AsianArt,195–219. *11/2Paper2(AcademyvsLiteraticrosscultural):instruction;Dueon11/16by11:59pmonCANVAS Question:“HowdoestheartoftheliteratiandthecourtintheSongdynastyrepresentdistinctive pointsofview?Whatdotheyhaveincommon,ifanything?”(P.193)

Week10(11/9)PoliticsofArtinContemporaryChina PoliticsandArtinContemporaryChina,PresentationbyNatalieGearin(40mins)? Read:Neave,etal.AsianArt,pp.220–239.

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Read:1)Neave,etal.AsianArt,277–294.

Nov.11Noclass;Veterans’Day  Week11(11/16,18)TransitionfromCourtCultureofHeiantoWarriorCultureofKamakura EsotericandexotericBuddhism “PureLand”Buddhism Heiancourtlife Genderedwritingstyles Genderedpictorialstyles Femaleauthors Illustratednarrativescrolls(emakimonogenre)andliterature Theriseofsamurai BuddhistconceptsofMillennialism(mappo)andsalvation Buddhisthells Read:1)Neave,etal.AsianArt.299–334. 2)Watanabe,Masako.“NarrativeFraminginthe‘TaleofGenjiScroll’:InteriorSpaceinthe CompartmentalizedEmaki.”ArtibutsAsiae,Vol.58,No.½(1998):115–145.[JSTOR] *11/16Paper2dueby11:59pmonCANVAS. *11/16Paper3(readtheprimarysource):instruction;Dueon12/07by11:59pmonCANVAS Question:Reachthe“Minori(theRites)”chapterofTheTaleofGenji[pdfonCANVAS].Studythe illustration(onp.321)andanalyzehowthecompositionenhancethescene.Oneofthe psychologicalaestheticsfromthiseraisanotioncalled"mononoaware."Connectthisaesthetics withvisualelements.  Week12(11/23,noclasson25;HappyThanksgiving!)Zenandart Whatarewabi,sabi,andshibui? ZenBuddhismandZengardens Inkpaintingtradition koan Nohtheater Read:1)Neave,etal.ArtsofAsia,pp.334–343

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2)Saito,Yuriko.“TheJapaneseAestheticsofImperfectionandInsufficiency,”TheJournalof AestheticsandArtCriticism,Vol.55,No.4(1997):377385.[JSTOR]

Week13(11/30,12/2)WarringStatestotheTimeofPeace Transitionalperiod Foursocialclasses KanoSchool RinpaSchool MaruyamaShijoSchool FloatingWorld(ukiyo)andwoodblockprints Worldofentertainments HokusaiandWesternlearning Read:1)Neave,etal.AsianArt,pp.343–348;355372. 2)Screech,Timon,“Hokusai’sLinesofSight,"Mechademia:SecondArc,Vol.7(2012):103– 109.[JSTOR]  Week14(12/7,9)ModernandContemporaryart MeijiRestorationof1868 Japanesestylepainting(Nihong)vsWesternstylepainting(yoga) Architectforthemodernnation:KenzoTange Challengingthecanon:YasumasaMorimura Superflat:TakashiMurakami Dizzyingworld:YayoiKusama Read:1)Neave,etal.AsianArt,pp.372381. *12/7Paper3dueby11:50pmonCANVAS. *12/9Exercise4instructionon12/9:Dueon12/15by11:59pmonCANVAS Question:Thetextbook,AsianArt,describesthattheTokugawashogunatetookthecontrolled “closeddoor”policythroughaseriesofedictsinthe1630s(p.355).Closeddoor,astheysay,did notmeantotalisolation,however.DialoguewiththeWestisevidentonvariousEdoperiodart. ModernandcontemporaryartistsalsodemonstratetheirviewsandreactionstowardWesternart tradition.Choosinganexample—eitherfromtheEdoperiodorfromthecontemporaryperiod— discusshowanartistconceivedtheWestandreflectedhistoricalbackgrounds.

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__________________________________________________________________________________  APPENDIX:Chronology

INDIA 2500–1500B.C.E.IndusValleyPeriod 1500–800B.C.E.VedicPeriod 322–185B.C.E.MauryaDynasty 185–72B.C.E.ShungaDynasty 70B.C.E.–ca.C.E.320Satavahana(a.k.a.Andhra)Dynasty ca.,C.E.50–320KushanDynasty(innorthwest,till7thcent.) 3rdcentury–ca.600GuptaDynasty

CHINA 1523–256B.C.E.ShangandZhouDynasties 221–221C.E.QinandHanDynasties 220–589SIXDYNASTIESPERIOD(WeiDynasty) 581–907SuiandTangDynasties 960–1179SongDynasty 1260–1368YuanDynasty 1368–1912MingandChingDynasties 1912–presentPeople'sRepublicofChina

JAPAN 10,500–300C.E.JomonandYayoiPeriods 552–1185Asuka,Nara,andHeianPeriods https://canvas.tufts.edu/courses/21691/assignments/syllabus

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1185–1333KamakuraPeriod 1333–1615MuromachiandMomoyamaPeriod 1615–1868EdoPeriod 1868–1912MeijiPeriod 1912–1926TaishoPeriod 1926–presentShowaandHeiseiPeriods

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WedSep16,2020

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