ASIA MODERN: Art + Architecture, 1800-present

4 credits · Undergraduate

This course is an introduction to the art and architecture of modern South, Southeast, and East Asia. Using a comparative perspective, each week will focus on a set of case studies—the work of particular artists and art movements or the architecture of specific Asian cities—to reconstruct an expansive history of modern art and architecture in Asia from 1800 to the present. Class lectures will be completed by a close examination of modern Asian art collections on campus and in the Bay Area. We will also engage with numerous diasporic Asian artists who live and work in the area.