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Fields of Study: World Arts

Faculty

Michael D. Carrasco
Pre-Columbian Art & Architecture

Course Listing - World Arts

Graduate students generally enroll for 5000-level coursework. Many of these courses are tutorials linked to the parallel 4000-level undergraduate course. It is the general practice that students attend undergraduate lectures as well as fulfill the particular requirements for the 5000-level tutorial.

ARH 5545. Arts of India (3). Painting, sculpture, and architecture of India.

ARH 5556. Arts of Japan (3). An introduction to the arts and culture of Japan, focusing on key monuments and artistic traditions that have played a central role in Japanese art and society. It covers, chronologically, the Pre-historic Age, Shinto, Buddhism, Court Culture, Zen Buddhism, Samurai Government, and the Industrial Age.

ARH 5557. Arts of China (3). A survey of the major epochs of Chinese art from pre-historic times to the modern period. The course examines the important artistic traditions developed in China: ritual bronzes, funerary art and architecture, Buddhist art, painting, calligraphy, ceramics, and garden architecture.

ARH 5615. Native American Arts and Architecture of the Southwest (3). Arts and architecture of the Native American peoples of the Southwest, beginning with ancient times and emphasizing the arts of the present Pueblo people from the 16th century to the present.

Graduate Seminars - World Arts

In addition to these "linked" tutorials, the Department also offers traditional graduate seminars in which students work closely with the professor in small groups. Students may take up to nine (9) semester hours of ARH 6592r. Topics in World Arts. The subjects of these seminars are varied; recent World Arts seminars include:

Japanese Prints:  Examines the circumstance and production of ukiyo-e prints and imagery between 1615-1868.

Literati Painting Theory:  Explores literati painting theory and its deployment in late 11th century China.

Art in Revolution: Seminar examines modern revolutionary movements through architecture, urbanism, and propaganda art

Representation and Reality, Toward an Anthropological Theory of Art:  Examines the nexus between language, representation, and reality by looking at icons from a number of periods and regions, including Mesoamerica, South Asia, Japan, and the West.