Art 355-01: Early Modern Art in Asia and Europe

Tuesday/Thursday 11:30-1:00

Fields 207

Professor Dawn Odell

This course will take a comparative and cross-cultural view of art produced in China and Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Emphasis will be placed on the spaces for which the art was created, including the courts of Versailles and Beijing, the private residences of the aristocracy and literati, and the populated urban centers that were home to a new class of merchant art buyers. The course will explore how global trade, religious missions, and colonization affected visual arts in China and Europe through discussions of oil and ink paintings, sculpture, and prints as well as objects of the “China Trade,” including ceramics, lacquer and textiles.