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ARTH 2896 - Modern Japanese Art and Visual Culture, from late Edo to Showa
This course will examine Japanese visual expressions created from ca. 1720 during the Edo period to 1956 during the Showa period. This span of time can be characterized by Japan's modernization efforts and engagement in wars, beginning with the lifting of the ban on western books after almost 200 years of isolation from the outside world. This policy change triggered an influx of European thought into Japan and ensuing westernization as Japan faced the imperialist powers of Europe. Thereafter, Japan experienced two watershed events pertaining to the West: the collapse of centuries-old samurai feudalism in 1868 and Japan's defeat in the Second World War in 1945. In the development of Japanese modern visual arts, Western knowledge and culture played a crucial role, and often challenged Japan's long-standing traditional values and artistic practices. The course will explore the transformation that Japanese visual arts experienced against the backdrop of political and social upheaval of this period. Japan struggled to keep up with an increasingly globalizing world. Japanese artists had to question and gauge their own artistic practice and style to cope with internal and external factors. After the defeat by the Western Allies in the Second World War, Japanese artists again struggled to find their voices in society. As a Writing Intensive Art History course, students will be instructed on proper research and writing in the discipline and will prepare and refine a research paper. Credit Hours: 4.000 Levels: Graduate, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Base Lecture Division: Undergraduate Department: Tyler:Art History Course Attributes: Writing Intensive

ARTH 2896 - Modern Japanese Art and Visual Culture, from late Edo to Showa

This course will examine Japanese visual expressions created from ca. 1720 during the Edo period to 1956 during the Showa period. This span of time can be characterized by Japan's modernization efforts and engagement in wars, beginning with the lifting of the ban on western books after almost 200 years of isolation from the outside world. This policy change triggered an influx of European thought into Japan and ensuing westernization as Japan faced the imperialist powers of Europe. Thereafter, Japan experienced two watershed events pertaining to the West: the collapse of centuries-old samurai feudalism in 1868 and Japan's defeat in the Second World War in 1945. In the development of Japanese modern visual arts, Western knowledge and culture played a crucial role, and often challenged Japan's long-standing traditional values and artistic practices. The course will explore the transformation that Japanese visual arts experienced against the backdrop of political and social upheaval of this period. Japan struggled to keep up with an increasingly globalizing world. Japanese artists had to question and gauge their own artistic practice and style to cope with internal and external factors. After the defeat by the Western Allies in the Second World War, Japanese artists again struggled to find their voices in society. As a Writing Intensive Art History course, students will be instructed on proper research and writing in the discipline and will prepare and refine a research paper.
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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