Healing and Art in China

3 credits · Undergraduate

Early healing practices and their influence on the arts in premodern China. Materiality and technology of individual craft traditions as related to the human body; magical healing texts, talismans, and dharanis; the art of the Buddha of Medicine; transformative herbs and the development of the aesthetic garden; and tea consumption as medicine and art. Not open to students who completed HART 2155W. [3]