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Workshop: Contemporary Art in China

Vak
2010-2011

Admission requirements

See study guide MA.

Description

The sessions will explore art historical and art theoretical perspectives of contemporary art in China. It will examine both the historical and social-political context in which contemporary art in China emerges during the past 30 years, and look at the conditions of modernity and contemporaneity that accompany the development of art in China, and in relation to the world.

Course Objectives

It is expected that at the end of the sessions students will have a better understanding of the broader art historical, cultural-, and societal- implications of contemporary art in China — moving beyond the popular image that Chinese art has generated internationally, into better understanding of the important position of art in shaping cultural modernity and contemporaneity; both in and beyond China.

Time Table

See MA semester 1. The workshop will be given medio November and will take 2-3 sessions of circa 2 hours each. Timetable

Mode of instruction

Workshop

Assessment method

The workshop will be attached to the MA Reading list Contemporary Art (5 ec)

Blackboard

Required reading

Will be announced on blackboard shortly before the start of the workshop.

Register

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Contact

stucokg@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Remarks

The workshop is a special course given by a visiting professor form Sydney, Australia. It is open to all MA students in humanities and languages who feel they might be interested in the subject.