Tingting Xu

Broad timelines of Chinese, Korean, and Japanese dynastic history, and a long timeline of arts in east asia, including potteries, bronzes, tomb art, painting, funerary clothes, handscrolls, calligraphy, landscape painting, screens, decoration art, and other good material.

We learned a lot about Chinese, Japanese, and Korean history and the role of art in that history (For example, Japanese influence in Korean art because Japan controlled the Korean peninsula for awhile)

This was my first art history course ever, so I feel like I learned a lot about interpreting pieces of art and how to appreciate them conceptually.

I learned about the history and variety of Chinese, Japanese and Korean art. I also learned about how to write and present analyses of specific pieces of artwork.

I learned to relate in a new, more conscious way to art produced in China, Japan and Korea - cultures very far away from my European background.

Tools for critically thinking about art history, artwork

Knowledge- Chinese, Japanese, Korean history. The wars, the shifting politics, the cultural influences and exchanges. The language history, the speicificities of each country as well as the common history and culture. Art historical debates and dicourses. Famous art historians. All the readings would explain the history of the art form, the social historical context that the art was created in, placed the art technique/ school in the history and development of the native and imported art forms. Skills - talking like an art historian. Presenting like an art historian. Visual analysis. We developed an "art hsitorian tool kit" throughout the semester - basically eveyr other class we were introduced to a major art historian school of thought, approach to art interpretation. etc. Perspectives - I loved learning about Chinese, Japanese and Korean history because it enabled me to view these countries and their people with a greater reverence to aprpeciate the art they have contributed to the world and the art forms they adopted and made their own. I especially loved learning about Chinese Calligraphy, the reading for that class really explained how the chinese have a different way of preserving their culture and transmitting information and culture from generation to generation. That challenegd my frame of thinking which was very narrowly set on Latin langugaes.

How to be an art historian, especially in terms of art throughout all ages of China, Japan, and Korea's histories.

She often dealt with a class that wasn't really willing to do the work she assigned. Don't take this class if you don't actually want to learn about the subject just to get out of the global core requirement. It's disrespectful to her, to other students who couldn't get in off the waitlist, and to the cultures the course is about. The art we learned about in this class was stunningly beautiful and it angered me when, in one class, only two students had done the reading she had assigned despite it being the weekend after a long break. This is a great class which, although sometimes too condensed, was 100% worth taking.

Very interesting, I learned a lot about art history in China, Japan and Korea but also about the general history in the region.