Week
One: Introduction
W (9/5) Images
of Asia and Fundamentals of Visual Analysis 
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PART I: INDIA
*** Useful Resource for Part I (optional reading)  Historical Outline of India
F (9/7) Prehistoric
Beginnings
Dehejia, 25-40.
"The Ancient Indus Civilization" read: "Introduction" and browse slide sets from main page
Week 2: Buddhist Art in Early India: This Week's Timeline 
M (9/10) Origins
of Buddhist Art
Dehejia, 40-48.
"About Buddhism" read: all sections except Dhammapada
"The Edicts of King Asoka" read: "King Asoka" and select a few of the edicts to comment on in class
W (9/12) Stupas and Stories
Dehejia, 51-76.
Great Stupa at Sanchi
F (9/14) The Buddha
Image
Dehejia, 79-99 and 103-124.
Acts of the Buddha (Buddhacarita by Ashvagosha (2nd c.
CE)), especially chapter 4
"Buddhist Symbols," pay special attention to "Mudra"
Week 3: Seeing the Divine:
Hinduism and the Visual Arts
M (9/17) Seeing
the Divine: Image and Ritual Practice
Dehejia, 137-152.
"Meeting God: Elements of Devotion in India"
W (9/19) Hindu
Iconography: Shiva, Visnu, and Devi
Dehejia, 429; entries on Devi, Shiva, and Vishnu and scan other entries for gods and terms related to these three
"The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India" exhibition at the Freer-Sackler Gallery
"Devi: The Great Goddess," exhibition at the Freer-Sackler Gallery
F (9/21) Hindu Temple
Dehejia, 124-134; 155-170.
 Diana Eck, "Image, Temple, and Pilgrimage," in Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India (electronic reserve)
**PAPER DUE
Week 4: Foreign Rule in
India
M (9/24) Islam
Comes to India: The Turkish Sultans and Mughal Empire
Dehejia, 249-272.
"The Birth of Islam" from Metropolitan Museum of Art
Timeline
W (9/26) Imperial
Visions of Grandeur: Akbar, Jahangir, and Shah Jahan
Dehejia, 299-334
"The Art of the Mughals" from Met Museum timeline (read both
"before 1600" and "after 1600")
Online virtual tour of the Taj Mahal
F (9/28) Collaboration
and Resistance: The Rajput Courts
Dehejia, 337-362.
"Power and Desire: South Asian Painting from the San Diego Museum";
read "Curator's Essay,"
"The Royal Courts," "Rule and Domain," and "Looking
at South Asian Paintings" (follow all links from those pages)
Week 5: Modern India
useful timelines for this week from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Timeline (not required reading):
"South Asia and the Himalayan Region, 1800–1900 a.d"
"South Asia and the Himalayan Region, 1900–present"
M (10/1) Missionaries
and Imperialists: The Portuguese and British
Dehejia, 365-376 and 379-406.
W (10/3) Art and Nationalism: The Early 20th Century
Dehejia, 409-424.
" The Rise of Modernity in South Asia" from Met Timeline
"Early Modernists and Indian Traditions" from Met Timeline
"Modern Art in India" from Met Timeline
F (10/5) International Modernism: Indian Art Since Liberation
"Postmodernism: Recent Developments in Art in India"
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PART TWO: CHINA
***Useful Reference for Part Two (optional reading)
Chinese Historical Outline
Week 6: The Religio-Political
Forcefield: Ritual Vessels in Early China
M (10/8) Early Chinese Bronze Culture
Clunas, 9-25.
"The Great Bronze Age: An Exhibit from the P.R.C." Use gallery on right of page; view all bronze vessel images
Robert Bagley, "Meaning and Explanation"
W (10/10) The First Emperor's Tomb
Clunas, 25-32.
The Museum of Qin Shihuang Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses. Read articles 1-4 (including sub-articles) and view images
Hoh, Erling, "China's Great Enigma," Archaeology 54 (2001).
F (10/12) Class Cancelled
PAPER DUE
Week 7: Early Imperial China:
Art Expresses Belief
M (10/15) Ideas About Life and Death: Han Dynasty Tomb Art
Clunas, 32-43.
W (10/17)Buddhism Arrives in China: Early Cave Monuments
Clunas, 89-112.
"Buddhist Art and the Trade Routes," at the Asia Society
"The Universal Gate of Bodhisattva Kanzeon" from The Lotus
Sutra
F (10/19) Hidden Powers: The Forbidden City
The Palace Museum (Forbidden City) Virtual Tour. Look at images in Central
Line, best viewed in reverse (go to the bottom of the page for the first
image); map link at upper right is also very useful
The Forbidden City from Grove Art Online Dictionary
Week 8: Chinese Painting
and Calligraphy
M (10/22) Fall Break
W (10/24) Visualizing
Guo Xi's Early Spring
Clunas, 45-63.
Kuo
Hsi, "The Significance of Landscape"
View Paintings by Guo Xi and Fan Kuan at the National Palace Museum,
Taiwan.
Click on Sung (in small green letters); view the first two images, "Travelers's"
and "Early Spring"
F (10/26) Visual
Language: Confucian Theories of Painting and Calligraphy
Clunas, 140-169 and 187-194
Bush and Shih, extracts.
PAPER DUE
Week 9: Late Imperial and Modern Chinese Art
M (10/29) Writing
in China (come prepared to lift a brush)
Clunas, 135-141.
Addiss, 77-93.
Jiang Kui, Sequel to the Treatise on Calligraphy
W (10/31) The Development of "Modern" Chinese Art
Clunas, 194-209 and 84-87.
F (11/2) Chinese Artists and the Communist State
Clunas, 209-223.
View: "Inner Visions: Avant Garde Art in China" (video)
Xu Bing dot com
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PART III: JAPAN
*** Useful Reference for Part III (optional reading): Japanese Historical Overview. Click on "History" in Japan from A-Z.
Week 10: Contexts for Understanding Early Japanese Art
M (11/5)Prehistoric Japanese Ceramics
Addiss, 7-19.
W (11/7) Shinto and the Arts in Early Japan
Addiss, pages 33 and 15-24.
"Sacred Spaces in Shinto"
F
(11/9) Buddhism Comes to Japan: Focus on Todaiji
Addiss, 35-53.
Week 11: The Arts in Medieval Japan, Tenth to Sixteenth Centuries
M (11/12) The
Tale of Genji: Text and Image
Addiss, page 75 and 55-58.
Synopsis of the novel
Murasaki Shikibu, Chapter 36, "Oak Tree," from The Tale
of Genji
W (11/14) Sesshu Toyo: Zen Buddhism and Individual Expression (come prepared to lift
a brush)
Addiss, 58- 61.
“Japan, 1400-1600”
F (11/16) Gardens
in Japan
Addiss, 117-134.
Japanese Gardens Virtual Tours.Read general information and do an extensive tour of one garden.
M (11/19) The
Tea Ceremony
Addiss, 24-32.
"The Tea Room," Section IV. from Kakuzo Okakura, The Book
of Tea, (1906).
"Quiet Beauty"
Soetsu Yanagi, The Kizaemon Tea-bowl, (1931) in The Unknown Craftsman,190-196.
THANKSGIVING BREAK
Week 12: Populaar Pictures of the Edo Period
M (11/26)Hakuin's
Vision: Teaching Zen Through Art
Addiss, 62-66.
Paintings by Hakuin
A Short Biography of Hakuin by Don Webley
W (11/28)Prints
and Patrons in Edo Period Japan
Addiss, 95-103.
and The
Floating World of Yukiyo-e: Shadows Dreams and Substance, online
exhibition at the Library of Congress, read "Overview" and
"Major Genres"
F (11/30) Prints
and Patrons (museum visit)
Addiss, 103-115.
Leutner, "Saikaku's Parting Gift. Translations from Saikaku Okimiyage,"
in Monumenta Nipponica 30:4 (1975). Read at least one of the
stories beginning on page 369.
Week 13: Modern Japanese Art
M (12/3) Modern Japanese Prints
W (12/5) Japanese Artists in the Atomic Age
F (12/7) International Dimensions of Contemporary Japanese Arts
"Hiroshima" by the photographer
Hiromi Tsuchida
Masami Teraoka's Art Theater
Yayoi Kusama's Official Site
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