# ASIAN 433: Topics in East Asian Visual Cultures | UW–Madison

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## Dataset

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## course

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### semester

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### subjects

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### title

TOPICS IN EAST ASIAN VISUAL CULTURES

### description

Topics in the study of the visual cultures of East Asia from antiquity to the present. Focuses on illustrative texts and genres, major historiographic, theoretical, and methodological issues, and the technologies of vision and visuality in China, Japan, and Korea.

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### llm summary

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### llm topics

* East Asian visual cultures (China, Japan, Korea)
* Illustrative texts and genres
* Technologies of vision and visuality

### llm skills

* Analysis of historiographic, theoretical, and methodological issues in visual cultures

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None recorded.

### llm search phrases

* East Asian visual culture
* Chinese Japanese Korean art history
* visuality historiography
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#### graded

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### grade conflicts

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### evidence

#### history

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#### traces

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#### results

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### revision

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## following

None recorded.