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Last update: Miroslava Jirková (09.02.2024)
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 eleven 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. Exam requirements: - written test with multiple choice questions at the end of the semester - presentation of a short paper (5-10 minutes) on a selected topic during one of the lectures - active participation in the lectures, discussion and creative approach to the topics |
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Last update: Miroslava Jirková (09.02.2024)
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Last update: Miroslava Jirková (09.02.2024)
Jean Robertson, Deborah Hutton et al., The History of Art: A Global View. Prehistory to the Present, Thames and Hudson, 2021.
Craig Clunas, Art in China, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009. 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. Fu Xinian et al., Chinese Architecture, Yale University Press, 2002.
Richard M. Barnhart et al., Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting, Yale UP, 1997. Craig Clunas, Chinese Painting and its Audiences, Princeton UP, 2017. 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.
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. Craig Clunas, Superfluous Things, Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2004.
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Last update: Miroslava Jirková (07.02.2024)
Principles of Chinese Art. Two Millennia of Chinese Painting, Sculpture and Applied Arts Michaela Pejčochová, Ph.D. FF UK, Celetná, room no. 506, Wednesdays 5:30 PM Syllabus of the course, summer term 2024 (11 lessons): 21 February introduction overview of the course historical periods systems of thought in ancient China: Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism hierarchy of genres in art collections of Chinese art around the world 28 February ancient art I ceramics bronzes jade 6 March ancient art II ancestral worship tomb sculpture architecture 13 March theory of the arts in China calligraphy 20 March painting I genres and techniques of painting in China conventions of depicting reality 27 March painting II literati culture 3 April sculpture 10 April ceramics 17 April applied arts and crafts 24 April contacts between China and the Western world and influences in the arts 15 May process of modernization of Chinese art modern art in 20th century history of collecting Chinese art in the West
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