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Course Info for AHIS - 205 - 01, Fall 2025
Class number: 3202 Title: East Asian Art, Now to 1850 Department: Fine Arts
Career: Undergraduate Component: Lecture Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 25 Current enrollment: 19 Available seats: 6
Start date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 End date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM, CT - 105 Instructor(s): Hatch, Michael
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Art and Global Requirements
Course Description:
This course investigates modern and contemporary artists and art movements in East Asia by moving backward in time from the present to the mid-nineteenth century, when China, Korea, and Japan were forced into global trade arrangements by foreign powers. A backward-looking structure acknowledges our presentism but is still guided by the implicit question, how did the arts of China, Korea, and Japan as we know them today come to be? What role does East Asian identity play in the global contemporary art world? Which forms did modernism take in China, Japan, Korea, and the diaspora? How were traditionalist and modernist movements intertwined? Key concepts will include post-colonialism, Marxism, nationalism, socialism, gender, ethnicity, modernism, traditionalism, post-modernism, diaspora, etc.