VIS127GS Summer Session I, 2012 Issues in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art

Prof. Kuiyi Shen Department of Visual Arts E-mail: [email protected]

Course Description This course will explore the ways in which Chinese artists of the 20th century have defined modernity and their tradition against the complex background of ’s history. A key issue for modern Chinese art is the degree to which Chinese artists have chosen to adopt Western conventions and the extent to which they have rejected them. Equally legitimate positions have been taken by artists whose work actively opposes the legacy of the past and by those who pursue innovations based upon their particular understandings of the Chinese tradition. Through examining art works in different media, including oil painting, graphic design, woodblock prints, traditional ink and color painting, and recent installation and video art, along with theoretical writing, bibliographical and institutional data, and other documentary materials, we will investigate the most compelling of the multiple realities that Chinese artists have constructed for themselves. Textbook: Julia Andrews and Kuiyi Shen: A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth Century China. New York: Guggenheim Museum and Abrams, 1998 Course Requirement: complete reading assignments and write summaries, participation in class discussion, and one term paper (10 pages)

Tentative Schedule: Week 1: Issues in Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art Art at the Crossroads: the School and Lingnan School Reading: Articles in A Century in Crisis: Introduction (Andrews and Spence); Innovations in Chinese Painting (Shan) Reform and National Essence: The Debates about Art in the Early Republican Period Reading: Articles in A Century in Crisis: Innovations in Chinese Painting (Chiu, Xue, Shen 80-95, Kao 146-161); Sullivan 5-35, 52-57. Week 2: China’s Seduction by the West: Modern Chinese Oil Painting in the1920s and 1930s Reading: A Century in Crisis: Shen 172-180; Sullivan, 36-51, 58-67. China Roars: The Rise and Fall of the Avant-Garde Woodcut Movement; Reading: A Century in Crisis: Andrews 181-192, Andrews & Shen 213-225; Sullivan, 52-57, 80-87, 91-125. Week 3: Commercial Art and China’s Modernization Reading: A Century in Crisis: 228-237; Andrews P & P: Chpt. 2-5; Sullivan, 129-150. The Victory of Socialist Realism: Oil Painting and the New Guohua, 1950-1965 Reading: A Century in Crisis: 278-289; Andrews P & P: Chpt. 6-7; Sullivan, 151-158, 215-224. Week 4: Idol and Ideal: Art in the Cultural Revolution and Post-Mao Era Reading will be assigned in class. Reopening to the West: The New Wave Movement, 1984-1989 Reading will be assigned in class. Week 5: The New Cosmopolitan Era: Art in the 1990s and 2000s Reading will be assigned in class In-class Oral Presentations

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