Teacher: Katharina RODE-KAYA
Course Code: JK11003
In this intensive seminar, we will approach the art and politics Japanese Meiji era (1868-1912), and navigate their complexity through separate case studies that are often transcultural in nature.
While having absorbed visual and technical input from mainly China and Europe throughout the so-called closed (sakoku) Edo period, the availability of materials and contact to actual people from outside Japan propelled art-politico development from the 1880s onwards. To cater to various interests and the transcultural perspective of the program, we will explore five different aspects of the Meiji art world. Each session will have a key art object:
a lavish set of folding screens, an ornate bronze plastic, a mystic nihonga painting, a wooden Buddhist sculpture, and a woodblock printed tryptic.
Course Information
Module: Focus 1 – Foundations
CATS Requirements: BA 3rd. year or above
Day/Period: Aug 4 Mon – Aug 8 Fri
Location: TBA
Credits: 2
Course Goals
_Exhibit an awareness for the complexity of Meiji art politics.
_Develop a small research project that culminates into a final term paper, and give a structured oral presentation.
_Develop skills for object and picture analysis with regards to awareness of style and iconography.
_Identify key-concepts for Meiji art aesthetics.
_Explain the major turns in the Meiji era with regards to art politics.
Course Schedule and Evaluation
For a detailed course schedule, please visit KULASIS.
To JDTS/MATS students: This course can be taken as either reduced (4 ECTS) or full seminar (8 ECTS).
Please indicate your ECTS requirement to the teacher.
The course will be concluded with a term paper in English. For a full paper, BA students write about 27,000 characters, MA students ca. 35,000 characters (including spaces; equals ca. 4,000 or 5,500 words respectively).
Active class participation, and preparation are required.
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