Introduction to Chinese Painting
EAC/ARH280L
Prof. Charles Hartman (HU-245)
Department of East Asian Studies
Course Syllabus
8/28 -- Course introduction. The place of this course in the General Education Program. Goals of the program. Goals of this course.
8/30 -- The Chinese Painting. Materials used, formats, collection, connoisseurship.
9/4 -- The Chinese Painter. His social station, his goals. Literati vs. professional painting.
9/6 -- Neolithic art. The Shang dynasty. Ornament vs. representation. Slides 1-3.
9/11 -- The Chou dynasty. Art of the Ch'u culture. The first empire of Ch'in. Slides 4-6.
9/13 -- The Han and Six Dynasties period. Slides 7-9.
9/20 -- Early Buddhist Art at Tun-huang. Slides 10-12.
9/25 -- No CLASS
10/2 -- Art of the T'ang Court. Slides 13-15.
10/4 -- Northern Sung landscape painting, I. Slides 16-18.
10/9 -- Northern Sung landscape painting, II. Slides 19-21.
10/11 -- Emperor Hui-tsung and the Sung Painting Academy. Slides 22-24.
10/16 - The Southern Sung Academy. Birds and Flowers. Ma Yüan. Slides 25-26.
10/18 - Slide review for Mid-Term
10/23 - Mid-term
10/25 - End of the Academy. Ch'an-Buddhist painting. Slides 27-29.
10/30 - The Sung-Yüan transition. Ch'ien Hsüan. Slides 31-34.
11/1 - Chao Meng-fu. Slides 35-37.
11/6 -- The Four Yüan Masters, I. Slides 38-39.
11/8 -- The Four Yüan Masters, II. Slides 40-41.
11/13 - The Ming Academy. The Che School. Tai Chin. Slides 42-43.
11/15 - The Wu School. Shen Chou. Slides 44-46.
11/27 - Wen Cheng-ming. T'ang Yin. Slides 47-48.
11/29 - The Seventeenth Century. Pa-ta shan-jen. Kung Hsien. Tung Ch'i-ch'ang. Slides 49-51.
12/4-- The Eighteenth Century. The Eccentrics. Western influence. Slides 52-53.
12/6 -- Emperor Ch'ien-lung and his impact on Chinese painting.
12/11 -- Slide review for Final.
Final: --Friday, Dec. 21, 1:00-3:00 -- FA-126
Handout: There is no textbook for this class. The handout contains a chronology of Chinese history and one paragraph summaries on each of 53 "test slides." Two copies of each slide have been placed in the Art Department slide library. They may be viewed and studied there whenever the library is open.
Class format: This is an art history class. We will view, read about, and discuss Chinese paintings. The 53 "test slides" and the summaries on each slide in the handout material are the keys to doing well in this class. This syllabus indicates on which days the test slides will be shown and discussed in class. Review the material on the upcoming slides and look at them in the slide library before coming to class. Prepare to ask questions on the slides and on the summaries in class. Take notes on the class discussion. Although there will be some lectures to provide historical background and context, the major activity in the class will be discussion, as a class, of the test slides and other slides. Classroom attendance and participation in these discussions will count for 1/3 of the final grade.
Grading: the final grade will consist of the mid-term exam grade (33%), final exam grade (34%), and class attendance, preparation, and participation in class discussion (33%). All three areas are equally important; excellence in one area will not be used to compensate for deficiencies in another. A major portion of the mid-term and final will be identification of selected test slides.
Class attendance policy: Attendance will be monitored at each class meetings. There are 25 scheduled class meetings. Undocumented absences, at the rate of percentage point per cut, will be deduced from the 33% of the grade devoted to class attendance.
Things to do and not to do: 1) Class attendance is mandatory. Do not cut class. 2) Bring the handout to every class. 3) View the test slides before class and come to class prepared to discuss the slides and their summaries. 4) Ask questions whenever you do not understand something. 5) Take notes in class and review them for the exams. 6) Go the slide library and review the test slides before exams.