The Image and Early Modern Japan: Painting and Prints 1600-1900

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This class will offer an in depth exploration of painting and prints from Japan's Edo period (1603-1868). Topics to be covered include the making of a painting or print, artist lineages as construed then and now, the impact of foreign visual cultures such as those from China and Europe, and the relationship between representations and the world ostensibly portrayed.