HAA 1600 Special Topics Chinese - Avant-Garde in Contemporary Chinese Art

(offered infrequently)

This lecture course will offer a general view of the history of contemporary Chinese art. Through lecture, reading, video and discussion, this course will investigate the momentous changes -political, economic, and cultural - which have swept through modern Asian history and have profoundly impacted on the development of contemporary Asian art. The materials presented in the course include the new movements of contemporary Chinese art and architecture, in particular the avant-garde art, which flourished in the 1980s and has rapidly developed in the last two decades. The discussion of the materials will focus on the issues, such as Asian modernity and identity, the impact of globalization and Chinese women's art.