Art and Asia

Art, architecture, and material cultures of South, Southeast, and East Asiapremodern and modern. Provides an overview of the vast artifactual record of this segment of the world, aims to engender a series of fundamental art-historical skills such as description, compare-and-contrast, critical viewing, slow looking, and close reading. Calls into question the Euro-centrism of art and its histories. No prior coursework or experience is necessary.