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HAA 0020 Introduction to Asian Art
(offered every term)
This course is intended to introduce major artistic traditions of East Asia and to develop basic tools of analysis in order to understand the Asian aesthetic. Some of the topics to be studied include: Art of Landscape Painting, Japanese Narrative Handscrolls, Buddhist Temples, and Sculpture. Upon completing the course students will be familiar with important monuments in Indian, Chinese, and Japanese art and will know something about interpreting them.