ARTH 241 - The Arts of Japan

FDR: HA
Planned Offering: Winter 2017 and alternate years.
Credits: 3

This survey of Japanese art, which includes material from protohistoric times to the 20th century, is structured chronologically with lectures addressing seminal artistic developments and movements throughout Japan’s history. Central to this course is an investigation of the ways in which Japan’s dynamic socio-political contexts shaped its religious and political artistic developments. Kerin.