ARTH237

Surveys modern and contemporary art and visual culture in China and the Chinese diaspora from the fall of the Qing dynasty (1911) to the present within the context of political, economic, and cultural changes in modern Chinese history and society. Investigates the relationship between art and politics in emergence of Chinese modernism in the pre-modern period, the New Woodcut movement in the 1930s, revolutionary art for the masses under Mao Zedong, the avant-garde movement and opening to the west in the post-Mao period. Also examines the art and visual culture of the Chinese diaspora, particularly themes of identity in Chinese American art.

Even Years

Spring Semester