Topics in East Asian Visual Cultures
Graduate seminar on visual cultures of East Asia (China, Japan, Korea) covering illustrative texts, historiography, theory, and technologies of vision from antiquity to the present.
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What you’ll be able to do
Develop basic skills in looking at and appreciating a range of objects of early modern Japanese visual culture.
Learn about the central role of visuality in the construction of Japanese cultural identity.
Critically evaluate received notions of visuality in early modern Japan.
Synthesize key theories, methodologies, and history of early modern Japanese visual culture.
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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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- Visual cultures of East Asia from antiquity to the present
- Illustrative texts and genres
- Historiographic, theoretical, and methodological issues
- Technologies of vision and visuality in China, Japan, and Korea
- Visuality and Japanese cultural identity
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- Looking at and appreciating objects of early modern Japanese visual culture
- Critically evaluating notions of visuality
- Synthesizing theories, methodologies, and history of visual culture
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