HAA 1660 - JAPAN: HANDSCROLLS

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course begins by considering how handscroll paintings, as the first secular art of Japan, developed out of earlier religious painting. It seeks the source of this development in changes in religion itself, showing how as religion in Japan became increasingly philosophical, the making of religious art creased to be the ritual creation of "magic objects" and became little more than the illustration of sutra texts. The course shows how these notions of art were codified into a "classic" tradition by the imperial court and ends with a look at how this aesthetic influenced ink ptg.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

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