Art History 290cm - Colloquium: A Century in Crisis: Modern Chinese Art (1850 - 1950)

Colq: Modern Chinese Art

Fall
2025
01
4.00
Yanlong Guo

M 3:05 PM - 4:20 PM; W 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Smith College
ARH-290cm-01-202601
yguo@smith.edu
How did Chinese artists respond to a century of national decline, foreign invasion, urban transformation, and revolution? Why were women--both as artists and as visual icons--critical to the remaking of modern China? This course traces the history of modern Chinese art from the final decades of the Qing dynasty through the Republican period, examining a variety of media including painting, printmaking, photography, film, and architecture. The course explores how artists negotiated tradition and modernity, nationalism and colonialism, masculinity and femininity, with a special focus on the representation of women and the emergence of female artists. Enrollment limited to 20.

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