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:

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

Vak	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