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ARTH 2898 - Contemporary Japanese Art and Visual Culture, from 1945 to the present
This course examines the development of Japanese art and visual culture in the postwar period. Instead of providing a linear history of formal developments, this course thematically explores some of the major theoretical issues that surround contemporary Japanese art and visual culture. Critical readings will provide social, historical, and political contexts for understanding a broad range of visual cultural practices. Through the course we will consider topics such as the question of modernity and the West in Japanese art; underground art and political dissent in the 1960s; and roles of gender, cuteness, and fantasy. Based on (but not limited to) the ideas and materials presented in class, students will pursue a research topic of their own interest, which will culminate in a PowerPoint presentation and final research paper. If completed successfully, this course will provide students with a solid grounding in art historical writing that combines critical thinking, formal analysis, research (secondary sources and, if possible, primary materials), and methodological awareness. As a Writing Intensive course, students will produce a sizeable quantity of writing during the semester, for which they will receive substantial feedback from the instructor and also from fellow classmates. The philosophy of this course is that one does not only think in order to write, but that one must also write in order to think. Credit Hours: 4.000 Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Base Lecture Division: Undergraduate Department: Tyler:Art History Course Attributes: Writing Intensive

ARTH 2898 - Contemporary Japanese Art and Visual Culture, from 1945 to the present

This course examines the development of Japanese art and visual culture in the postwar period. Instead of providing a linear history of formal developments, this course thematically explores some of the major theoretical issues that surround contemporary Japanese art and visual culture. Critical readings will provide social, historical, and political contexts for understanding a broad range of visual cultural practices. Through the course we will consider topics such as the question of modernity and the West in Japanese art; underground art and political dissent in the 1960s; and roles of gender, cuteness, and fantasy. Based on (but not limited to) the ideas and materials presented in class, students will pursue a research topic of their own interest, which will culminate in a PowerPoint presentation and final research paper. If completed successfully, this course will provide students with a solid grounding in art historical writing that combines critical thinking, formal analysis, research (secondary sources and, if possible, primary materials), and methodological awareness. As a Writing Intensive course, students will produce a sizeable quantity of writing during the semester, for which they will receive substantial feedback from the instructor and also from fellow classmates. The philosophy of this course is that one does not only think in order to write, but that one must also write in order to think.
Credit Hours: 4.000

Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate
Schedule Types: Base Lecture

Division: Undergraduate
Department: Tyler:Art History

Course Attributes:
Writing Intensive

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