Dec 11, 2024  
2006 Summer Sessions Bulletin 
    
2006 Summer Sessions Bulletin [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]

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AH 192 - Workshop in Art History: Asia in New York


This course introduces students to direct embodiments of Asian culture in museums and various other institutions in New York and at the same time provides a systematic survey of Asian art (Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Indian and South-East Asian) from the Bronze age to the 20th century. While four class meetings and exams take place in a campus auditorium, other lectures are held in such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Chinese Scholars Garden and Jaques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art on Staten Island, the China Institute, the Museum of Chinese in the Americas and the Eastern States Buddhist Temple in Manhattan, the Bonsai Museum and Japanese Garden in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden as well as the Asian floor of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the galleries of the Japan Society and the Urasenke Tea Ceremony Society, the Morgan Library, the galleries of the Asia Society, the Nicholas Roerich Museum and the American Numismatic Society.

Prerequisites & Notes
This course has received provisional approval.

SSI
60686: M-Th, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Naymark,  204 Calkins


Credits: 3 s.h.





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