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ART HISTORY 375: LATER JAPANESE PAINTING & WOODBLOCK PRINTS


QUIZ SCHEDULE: Feb. 20, Mar. 27, May 8


LECTURE TOPICS (Subject to change and not equal to a lecture schedule.)

PART 1. INTRODUCTION

1. Japan
2. Japanese Aesthetics
3. Japanese Art 
4. The Edo Period

PART 2. PAINTING

5. Artists of the Early Seventeenth [Images]
6. The Kano and Tosa Houses in the Seventeenth Century [Images]
7. Early Genre Painting [Images]
8. Korin and Kenzan [Images]
9. Ôbaku Portraiture and Later Zen Paining
10. Early Literati Painting [Images]
11. "Realisms" in Edo Painting [Images; revised 3/10/03]
12. Maruyama-Shijô Painters [Images; revised 3/10/03]
13. Individualist Painters [Images]
14. Later Literati and Rinpa Painting [Images]
15. Eclectic Painters in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century [Images]

PART 3. UKIYO-E

16. Ukiyo-e in the Late Seventeenth Century
17. Ukiyo-e Prints (and Paintings) from 1700 to 1715
18. Edo Prints from 1715 to 1745 (Rose and Rose-Lacquer Prints)
19. Chôshun and Sukenobu
20. Edo Prints of the Fifties and Early Sixties ("Rose-Printed Prints")
21. Harunobu, an Imitator and a Follower
22. Brocade Prints of the Seventies, Eighties, and Beyond
23. Toyoharu, Kiyonaga and Shunchô
24. Utamaro and His Rivals 
25. Later Katsukawa School, Sharaku, and the Followers of Toyoharu
26. The Early to Mid-Nineteenth Century: Figure Prints
27. The Early to Mid-Nineteenth Century: Landscape Prints
28. Nagasaki and Yokohama Prints

Part 4. THE MEIJI PERIOD

29. Prints
30. Western Style Painting
31. Japanese-Style Painting


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