1911年来的中国艺术发展.pdfVIP

HISTORY OF ART DEPARTMENT UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD HONOUR SCHOOL OF HISTORY OF ART: Art in China since 1911 Trinity Term 2010 Professor Craig Clunas Hai Bo, ‘They’, 1999 Tuesdays 11-1 Office hours: Mondays 4-5 Telephone: 01865 286834 Email: craig.clunas@hoa.ox.ac.uk Course description: This course, for which no prior experience of Chinese art or history is required, will provide an overview of developments in the visual arts of China from the end of the imperial period to the present, and will relate them to changes within the broader culture. How did the material forms and contexts of art, as well as the social roles of its makers and audiences, change over this period ? Students will study a range of visual materials, from painting in ‘traditional’ and ‘western’ formats, through graphics and photography, to the performance and installation art of more recent times. They will engage with the issues, central to the artists of this period, of how to make art that is both modern’ and ‘Chinese’, and will look at the ways the turbulent politics of twentieth century China have been expressed in visual terms, and have in turn inflected the visual images which have been produced. Tutorials: These will be held in Weeks 2, 4, 6, and 8, times to be arranged. You will write two essays and prepare two ‘virtual exhibition’ Powerpoints, the details of which I will explian when we meet. Topics are as follows: 1: Essay  To what extent is Chinese art of the Republican period ‘a dialogue with the West’ ? 2: Powerpoint ‘Virtual exhibition’  Realism in Chinese art 1911-1976 3: Essay  To what extent is the programme laid out in Mao’s ‘Yan’an Forum’ manifested in Chinese art after 1949 ? 4: Powerpoint ‘Virtual exhi