Survey of art and architecture of India, Southeast Asia, China, Korea, and Japan. Each country has a distinctive characteristic in art forms, materials, styles and purposes in creating art. Students will become familiar with major monuments of Asian countries in historical contexts, and develop their skills in analyzing differences in religion, culture, and aesthetics in each country. Students will acquire basic knowledge on artists, key vocabularies, styles of traditional arts, and religious and iconographic concepts of Asian arts.
P: Junior standing
Spring Odd.