TRANSNATIONAL ART AND CULTURE IN ASIA BEFORE THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

Credit Hours: 3 · Undergraduate Lower-Level

This introductory course to art and culture in Asia explores transnational connections and exchanges before the twentieth century. Major topics include the Silk Road, Buddhist grottoes, maritime trade routes and shipwrecks, cosmopolis and urban lives, court art, literati culture, ink painting, gardens, the Mongol Empire, Jesuit influence, and East-West connections.