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Art History: Art and Material Culture of Asia

Master

This Master of Arts is a specialisation of the MA-programme in Art History.

Within this specialisation, you will study art and material culture of two Asian regions:

  1. East Asia: namely China, Japan and Korea
    1. South and Southeast Asia, with specific attention to India, Indonesia, Nepal, Tibet, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia

Courses on offer in 2010-2011.

First Year

Course EC Semester 1 Semester 2
Literature Exam 5
MA-thesis 20
Practices and Debates in Art History 10

Choose one Lecture Course
Contemporary Art and Theory & World Art Studies. Concepts of Place and Time in Contemporary Art 10
Early Modern Art and Architecture in the Low Countries and Italy. Patronage in Naples and Rome 1500 – 1700 10
Material culture, applied arts and collections & Asian art. The domestic Culture of the Cape 10
Sharing the tales of the Buddha: on using, perceiving and transferring Buddhist narratives through art across Asia. 10

Choose one Research Course
Contemporary Art and Theory & World Art Studies. Eying one another: (contemporary) portraiture from a cross-cultural perspective 10
Early Modern Art and Architecture in the Low Countries and Italy. The Villa. Histories of a typology from the Villa Madama to the Villa dall-Ava 10
Material culture, applied arts and collections & Asian art. Museums, Collections and Cultural Politics 10
Material culture, applied arts and collections & Asian art. What art history is in Asia 10