SemesterSpring Semester, 2018
DepartmentGeneral Education Courses in Humanities
Course NameEnglish Program in Chinese Culture:Art in Taiwan
Instructor
Credit3.0
Course TypeSelectively
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule

3/2 Introduction課程簡介: Art and National Identity 藝術與國家認同



 



3/9 Establishment of the Republic of China in Taiwan 中華民國遷台



The National Palace Museum 故宮在台建館



Chinese art in Taiwan 在台灣的中國藝術



*Reading: Ju, Jane C., “Chinese Art, the National Palace Museum and Cold War Politics,” in Partisan Canons, edited by Anna Brzyski, Durham: Duke University Press 2007, pp. 115-134.



 



3/16 Literati art and artists from the mainland 文人藝術與文人藝術家



The debate over the orthodoxy of a national painting or guohua (國畫) 國畫正統論爭



Introduction of Literati artists 渡海三家介紹



Pu Hsin-yu 溥心畬; Huang Chun-pi 黃君璧; Chang Ta-chien 張大千



*Reading: Kuo, Jason C. Art and Cultural Politics in Postwar Taiwan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000, pp. 84-101.



 



3/23 Modernism in Taiwan 在台灣的現代主義



Cold WarAmerican aid and influence 冷戰─美援與其影響



The Fifth-Moon Group(五月畫會): Liu Kuo-sung 劉國松; Chuang Che 莊?; Ch’en Ting-shih 陳庭詩



Dongfang Group (東方畫會): Wu Hao 吳昊; Hsiao Chin 蕭勤; Chin Song秦松



*Reading: Lu, Ching-fu, “Modernisms Experimental Period,”Taiwan Art (1945-1993), Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 1993, pp. 51-61.



 



3/30 Rescinding of UN membership 台灣退出聯合國: Redefining Taiwanese art 台灣藝術 再定義



Art of the aborigines 原住民的藝術



*Reading: Chia-yu Hu, “Taiwanese Aboriginal Art and Artifacts,”in Kikuchi, Yuko, ed. Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007, pp. 193-215.



 



4/6 Holiday--no class



 



4/13 Nativist hsiang-tu movement 鄉土運動



Yen Shui-lung and Taiwan craft movement 顏水龍與台灣工藝運動



Traditional local art and crafts 本地傳統藝術與工藝



*Reading: Yuko Kikuchi, “Refracted Colonial Modernity,” in Kikuchi, Yuko, ed. Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007, pp. 219-247.



 



4/20  Reports



4/27  Recognition of art under the Japanese 日治時期的藝術



Introduction of elder masters of the Japanese period 前輩畫家介紹



Chen Chern-po 陳澄波; Lin Yu-Shan 林玉山; Kuo Hsueh-hu 郭雪湖;



Chen Chin 陳進



*Reading: Kuo, Jason C. Art and Cultural Politics in Postwar Taiwan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000, pp. 32-83.



Chuan-ying Yen, “The Demise of Oriental-style Painting in Taiwan,” in Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan, Kikuchi, Yuko, ed. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007, pp. 83-108.



 



5/4 Naïve art 素人藝術 and Womens art女性藝術:



Hung Tung 洪通; Chen Cheng-rui 陳正瑞; Yen Ming-hui 嚴明惠



*Reading: Victoria Y. Lu, “Hung Tung: Visionary King of Taiwan,” in Vernacular Visionaries: International Outsider Art, edited by Annie Carlano, Santa Fe, New Mexico: The Museum of International Folk Art, 2003, pp. 80-90



Ming-chu Lai, “Modernity, Power, and Gender,” in Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan, Kikuchi, Yuko, ed. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007, pp. 133-165.



 



5/11 Lifting of martial law 1980年至當代─解嚴後



Political art 政治藝術: Wu Tien-chang 吳天章; Pei Chi-yu 斐啟瑜; Yang Mao-lin 楊茂林



*Reading: Kuo, Jason C. Art and Cultural Politics in Postwar Taiwan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000, pp. 138-175.



 



5/18  No class (NCCU Athletic Day)



 



5/25  Art as Business 藝術是商業? (or visit museum/gallery)



*Reading: Rachel F.F. Lee, “Anti-Mainstream Showcases,” Free China Review, Vol. 43, No. 3, March 1993, pp. 32-37.



 



6/1  Diversity of expressions 多元表現



Jun T-Lai 賴純純; Wu Ma-Li 吳瑪俐; Lu Hsien-ming 陸先銘; Huang Jin-ho 黃進河; Hsu Yu-jen 許雨仁



*Reading: Emma Wu, “Anything Goes,” Free China Review, Vol. 43, No. 3, March 1993, pp. 10-31.



 



6/8  Reports



 



6/15 Toward a new identity: Taiwanese art? Asian art or art of the Chinese diaspora? 新認 同:台灣藝術?亞洲藝術?離散的中國藝術?



*Reading: Gao Minglu, “Toward a Transnational Modernity: An Overview of Inside Out:New Chinese Art,” in Inside Out: New Chinese Art, edited by Gao Minglu, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, pp. 15-40.



Chiu, Melissa, “An Expanded Chinese Art History,” in Asian Art History in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Vishakha N. Desai, Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007, pp. 211-228.



 



6/22 New Art in Taiwan



Related materials and readings will be added to the list depending on the exhibitions available.



 



6/29 Final Open-book Exam 期末考



 


Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant
Requirement/Grading

(Discussions and all written work are to be in English.)



Oral and written reports—40%



Final open-book exam—30%



Class attendance and participation—30%


Textbook & Reference

Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities. London: Verso, 1983.



Asian Art History in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Vishakha N. Desai, Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007



Clunas, Craig. Art in China. London: Oxford University Press, 2009.



Vishakha N. Desai, ed., Asian Art History in the Twenty-First Century, Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007



Gao, Minglu, ed. Inside Out: New Chinese Art, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998,



Ju, Jane C., “Chinese Art, the National Palace Museum and Cold War Politics,” in Partisan Canons, edited by Anna Brzyski, Durham: Duke University Press 2007, pp. 115-134.



Kuo, Jason C. Art and Cultural Politics in Postwar Taiwan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000.



Kikuchi, Yuko, ed. Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007.



Taiwan Art (1945-1993), Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 1993



Vernacular Visionaries: International Outsider Art, edited by Annie Carlano, Santa Fe, New Mexico: The Museum of International Folk Art, 2003


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