Arts, Sciences, and Engineering					Art & Art History-Art History
Course Section Listing	Course	Course Title					Term	Credits	Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-172042	AHST 255-1	Yuan Paintings: The Devil is in the Details					Spring 2024	4.0	Open
Schedule:		Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date R 940 AM 1220 PM Morey Room 524 01/17/2024 05/11/2024
Enrollment:		Enrolled      5	Capacity      15
Co-Located:		AHST 255-1 (P), AHST 455-1
Instructors:		Tingting Xu
Delivery Mode:		In-Person
Description:		The short-lived Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) produced some of the best works of Chinese painting. Exquisite details were left in the images, many of which have been overlooked in the agendas and methods of current scholarship. We will study scholarly writings about Yuan paintings (topics include the lives and work of the “four masters,” the political tensions between Mongol rulers and the literati painters, and the aesthetics of brushwork, to name a few) and the Complete Collection of Yuan Paintings our library recently acquired, which will allow for a patient examination of these works, so that we might better reflect on their conceptions and renditions. For the final assignment, students will be required to select and write about a recurring detail or technique in the works of a specific painter, embedding it within existing scholarly frameworks, or questioning them with new perspectives.
Offered:		Fall Spring Summer