Principles of Chinese Art. Two Millennia of Chinese Painting, Sculpture and Applied Arts - ATJ100252

• Title: Principles of Chinese Art. Two Millennia of Chinese Painting, Sculpture and Applied Arts
• Guaranteed by: Department of Sinology (21-KSI)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2022
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English, Czech
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Mgr. Michaela Pejčochová, Ph.D.

Annotation

Last update: Miroslava Jirková (13.01.2020)

Principles of Chinese Art. Two Millennia of Chinese Painting, Sculpture and Applied Arts
Tutor: Michaela Pejčochová, Ph.D.

The course will provide an introduction into the broad topic of the principles of Chinese art and its history over the
past two millennia. Based on an hierarchy different from European art, China preferred poetry, calligraphy and
painting to architecture and sculpture as the “fine arts” throughout its classical periods. In thirteen lectures,
principal prerequisites of Chinese theory of art will be explained, as well as materials and techniques typical for
the production of Chinese artworks. Various disciplines of the arts, such as painting, calligraphy, sculpture,
architecture, applied arts, and folk art will be introduced one by one, stressing their historical development and
theoretical context in which they functioned. Attention will be paid also to contacts and exchanges of the Chinese
cultural world with those of China’s neighbors, above all with Japan, and the rest of the world throughout different
historical periods. Collecting of Chinese and Japanese art in the West will be briefly introduced, illuminating the
principal factors that influenced the formation of collections in Europe. In particular, Czech collections and holdings
of Chinese and Japanese artworks in the National Gallery in Prague will be introduced and compared to those in
other collections worldwide. Throughout the course, students will be encouraged to pay critical attention to
Western scholarship on the topic, discuss published materials and present their view of the subject.

Literature

Last update: Miroslava Jirková (13.01.2020)

Recommended reading:
Robert L. Thorp, Richard E. Vinograd, Chinese Art and Culture, Harry N. Abrams, 2001.

Michael Sullivan, The Arts of China, University of California Press, 2009.

Patricia Buckley Ebrey, The Cambridge Illustrated History of China, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Laurence Sickman, Alexander Soper, The Art and Architecture of China, Yale University Press, 1992.

Craig Clunas, Art in China, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009.

Fu Xinian et al., Chinese Architecture, Yale University Press, 2002.

Richard M. Barnhart et al., Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting, Yale UP, 1997.

Ouyang Zhongshi, Wen C. Fong, eds., Chinese Calligraphy, Yale University Press, 2008.

Michaela Pejčochová, Masters of 20th-Century Chinese Ink Painting, National Gallery in Prauge, 2008.

Julia F. Andrews, Kuiyi Shen, The Art of Modern China, University of California Press, 2012.

Paul Gladston, Contemporary Chinese Art: A Critical History, Reaktion Books, 2014.

Gulik, Robert van. Chinese Pictorial Art as Viewed by a Connoisseur. Roma: Instituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1958.

Ho Wai-kam et al., Eight Dynasties of Chinese Painting: The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, and The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art and Indiana University Press, 1980.

Wang Yao-t’ing. Looking at Chinese Painting, Tokyo: Nigensha, 1995.

Craig Clunas, Superfluous Things, Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2004.