ART 358 - Seminar in Asian Art

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

(Same as ASIA 358) Topic for 2013/14a: Word and Image: Pictorial Narratives of East Asia. This seminar examines the ways in which some of the most widely told East Asian narratives have been translated into the pictorial field - on cave murals, handscrolls, screens, sliding doors and woodblock prints. Works to be discussed include parables from the Lotus Sutra, the most important Buddhist text, and the Tale of Genji, a famous eleventh-century Japanese novel. Ms. Hwang.

Prerequisite(s): permission of the instructor.

One 2-hour period.