East Asian Studies 270 - COLQ: EAST ASIAN STUDIES

Topics course. This course examines the close relations between East Asian traditions of garden design, pictorial representations of gardens, and landscape painting. It focuses on historic gardens in China and Japan, from the third century to the present. Key topics include nature vs. artifice in landscape; gardens as social, political, and religious sites; and the experience of landscape in painting, poetry and other artistic forms. We cover readings from landscape and garden texts in translation, as well as selections from the secondary literature dealing with these themes.  Prerequisite:  one course in Art History or East Asian Studies. Enrollment limited 18. (E)

Topic: The Art of Chinese and Japanese Gardens.