East Asian Art and Popular Culture
Code: 101545 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2500244 East Asian Studies | OB | 3 | 1 |
Contact
- Name:
- Roberto Figliulo
- Email:
- roberto.figliulo@uab.cat
Teaching groups languages
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Prerequisites
No prerequisites are required to enroll in this course.
Objectives and Contextualisation
The main aim of this subject is to provide an introduction to the basic characteristics of artistic and cultural production in East Asia. Its purpose is to help develop an interdisciplinary vision of East Asian Studies.
Competences
- Applying knowledge of the art and popular culture to the analysis and comprehension of written texts in the languages of East Asia.
- Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
- Developing self-learning strategies.
- Ensuring the quality of one's own work.
- Knowing and comprehending the art and popular culture of the countries of East Asia.
- Knowing and using the information and communication technology resources (ICT) in order to collect, produce, analyse and present information related to the East Asian Studies.
- Knowing the great literary, philosophical, and artistic movements of East Asia.
- Knowing, comprehending, describing and analysing the values, beliefs and ideologies of East Asia.
- Recognising the connotations of the specific cultural references in the field of East Asia and assessing the influence in the interlinguistic and intercultural communication.
- Respecting the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
- Respecting the gender equality.
- Working in interdisciplinary and intercultural groups.
- Working in teams in an international, multilingual and multicultural context.
Learning Outcomes
- Applying knowledge of the art and popular culture to the analysis and comprehension of written texts in the languages of East Asia.
- Assessing the obtained results in the information search process in order to update the knowledge about history, literature, linguistics, thought and art.
- Carrying out the documentary search in the specific languages of East Asia.
- Developing critical thinking and reasoning and communicating them effectively both in your own and other languages.
- Developing self-learning strategies.
- Ensuring the quality of one's own work.
- Knowing and comprehending the art and popular culture of the countries of East Asia.
- Knowing the great literary, philosophical, and artistic movements of East Asia.
- Knowing, comprehending, describing and analysing the values, beliefs and ideologies of East Asia.
- Recognising the connotations of the specific cultural references in the field of East Asia and assessing the influence in the interlinguistic and intercultural communication.
- Respecting the diversity and plurality of ideas, people and situations.
- Respecting the gender equality.
- Using the specific terminology of history, literature, linguistics, thought and art.
- Utilising different tools for specific purposes in the fields of history, literature, linguistics, thought and art.
- Working in interdisciplinary and intercultural groups.
- Working in teams in an international, multilingual and multicultural context.
Content
Part 1 – Artistic tradition in East Asia
The first part of the subject presents artistic tradition in East Asia (China, Japan and Korea). We will see how aesthetic ideas and artistic practices have spread throughout this geographic region. We will firstly focus on artistic production related to religion and its rituals, and then on painting and calligraphy, exploring the main aesthetic concepts of literati art. As both the aspects of artistic tradition in question also constitute social practices, we will analyse their links with local daily life.
Part 2 – Modern and contemporary art in East Asia
In the second part of the subject we will analyse the main trends in modern and contemporary art in East Asia. We will focus on the most notable artists and artistic movements to understand how artistic production has evolved in the last century. We will analyze the global influences on the development of local art from the 19th century onwards, and how artistic production in the last century has been highly conditioned by and constantly related to major changes in East Asian societies.
Methodology
To achieve the established objectives, this subject mainly involves lectures. Particular emphasis will be placed on the analysis of artworks and primary and secondary sources, in which the active participation of students, through comments, discussions and debates, will be fundamental. The work students carry out will mainly consist of group presentations, debates and discussions, written assignments, and a series of exams. Over the course of the semester the lecturer will hold individual and/or group tutorials to help students with their work.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Assignments of analysis of artworks and primary and secondary sources. | 13 | 0.52 | 1, 8, 7, 9, 4, 10, 11, 12, 14, 13 |
| Debates | 5 | 0.2 | 8, 7, 9, 4, 10, 11, 12, 16, 15, 14, 13, 6 |
| Individual and/or group tutorials. | 2 | 0.08 | 2, 8, 7, 9, 4 |
| Lectures. | 40 | 1.6 | 8, 7, 9, 11 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Group assignments. | 15 | 0.6 | 8, 7, 9, 4, 3, 11, 12, 16, 15, 14, 13 |
| Individual assignment. | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 8, 7, 9, 5, 4, 10, 12, 14, 13, 6 |
| Oral presentations | 2 | 0.08 | 2, 8, 7, 9, 5, 4, 3, 10, 11, 12, 16, 15, 14, 13, 6 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Individual assignment: readings, watching visual material, etc. | 14 | 0.56 | 1, 2, 8, 7, 9, 5, 4, 3, 12, 14, 13, 6 |
Assessment
Continuous assessment
Students must provide evidence of their progress by completing various tasks and tests. These activities are detailed in the table at the end of this section of the Study Guide.
Review
When publishing final marks prior to recording them on students' transcripts, the lecturer will provide written notification of a date and time for reviewing assessment activities. Students must arrange reviews in agreement with the lecturer.
Missed/failed assessment activities
Students may retake assessment activities they have failed or compensate for any they have missed, provided that those they have actually performed account for a minimum of 66.6% (two thirds) of the subject's final mark and that they have a weighted average mark of at least 3.5.
The lecturer will inform students of the procedure involved, in writing, when publishing final marks prior to recording them on transcripts. The lecturer may set one assignment per failed or missed assessment activity or a single assignment to cover a number of such activities. Under no circumstances may an assessment activity worth 100% of the final mark be retaken or compensated for. In case of retaking, maximum grade will be 5 (Pass).
Classification as "not assessable"
In the event of the assessment activities a student has performed accounting for just 25% or less of the subject's final mark, their work will be classified as "not assessable" on their transcript.
Misconduct in assessment activities
Students who engage in misconduct (plagiarism, copying, personation, etc.) in an assessment activity will receive a mark of “0” for the activity in question. In the case of misconduct in more than one assessment activity, the student involved will be given a final mark of “0” for the subject. Assessment activities in whichirregularities have occurred (e.g. plagiarism, copying, impersonation) are excluded from recovery.
Evaluation activities
30% Written exam
A written exam on the contents of both parts of the subject.
20% Individual written assignment
Individual written analysis of one of various artworks selected by the lecturer.
30% Group work
Preparation, in groups, of a cultural promotion product (more details will be given in classes).
20% Seminars' reports
A written assignment related with the seminars on the subject’s contents held over the semester.
Single assessment
This subject may be assessed under the single assessment system in accordance with the terms established in the academic regulations of the UAB and the assessment criteria of the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting.
Students must make an online request within the period established by the faculty and send a copy to the teacher responsible for the subject, for the record.
Single assessment will be carried out in person on one day during week 16 or 17 of the semester. The Academic Management Office will publish the exact date and time on the faculty website.
On the day of the single assessment, teaching staff will ask the student for identification, which should be presented as a valid identification document with a recent photograph (student card, DNI/NIE or passport).
Single assessment activities
The final grade for the subject will be calculated according to the following percentages:
40% Individual assignment
Individual written analysis of one of various topics selected by the lecturer.
30% Exam
A written exam on the contents of the subject.
30% Practical assignment
Preparation and oral presentation of a cultural promotion product.
Grade revision and resit procedures for the subject are the same as those for continual assessment. See the section above in this study guide.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group work | 30% | 20 | 0.8 | 1, 8, 7, 9, 4, 3, 10, 11, 12, 16, 15, 14, 13 |
| Individual written assignment | 20% | 17 | 0.68 | 2, 8, 7, 9, 5, 4, 3, 10, 11, 12, 14, 13, 6 |
| Seminars' reports | 20% | 5 | 0.2 | 7, 9, 5, 4, 10, 11, 12, 16, 15, 13, 6 |
| Written exam | 30% | 2 | 0.08 | 2, 8, 7, 9, 5, 4, 10, 11, 12, 14, 13, 6 |
Bibliography
Parte 1
L'Art sagrat del Tibet: saviesa i compasió. (1996). Barcelona: Fundació "la Caixa".
Addis, Stephen (1989). The Art of Zen: paintings and calligraphy by Japanese monks, 1600-1925. New York: H.N. Abrams.
Bush, Susan, & Shih, Hsio-yen (Eds.). (1985). Early Chinese texts on painting. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Cervera Fernández, Isabel (1997). Arte y cultura en China: conceptos, materiales y términos de la A la Z. Barcelona: Ediciones del Serbal.
Cheng, François (1993). Vacío y plenitud. Madrid: Siruela.
Clunas, Craig (1997). Art in China. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Jungmann, Burglind (2014). Pathways to Korean Culture – Painting of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910. London: Reaktion Books.
Lee, Dongju (2003). The Beauty of old Korean paintings: a history and an appreciation. London: Saffron books.
Lee, Soyoung (2009). Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400-1600. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Noritake, Tsuda (2009). A History of Japanese art: from prehistory to the Taisho period. North Clarendon: Tuttle Publication.
Petrucci, Raphael (Ed.). (2000). Encyclopédie de la peinture chinoise. Paris: You Feng.
Parte 2
Chung, Yeon Shim, & Kim, Sunjung, et al. (2020). Korean art from 1953: collision, innovation, interaction. London: Phaidon Press.
Gao, Minglu (2011). Total Modernity and The Avant-garde in Twentieth Century Chinese Art. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press.
Gladston, Paul (2014). Contemporary Chinese Art: A Critical History. London: Reaktion Books.
Horlyck, Charlotte (2017). Korean Art: from the 19th Century to the Present. London: Reaktion Books.
Kim, Youngna (2005). 20th century Korean art. London: Laurence King.
Moreno, Pilar Cabañas, & Arias Estévez, Matilde Rosa (2020). Zen, Tao y Ukiyoe – Horizontes de inspiración artística contemporánea. Gijón: Satori Arte.
Munroe, Alexandra (Ed.). (1994). Japanese art after 1945: scream against the sky. New York: Harry N. Abrams; Japan: Yokohama Museum of Art.
Perspective of 20th Century paintings. (1988). Nagoya: Nagoya City Art Museum.
Weisenfeld, Gennifer, (2002). Mavo: Japanese artists and the avant-garde, 1905-1931. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Wichmann, Siegfried (1999). Japonisme: the Japanese influence on Western art since 1858. London: Thames and Hudson, 1999.
Wu, Hung, (Ed.). (2010). Contemporary Chinese Art: Primary Documents. New York: MoMa.
Software
Specific programs will not be used for this subject.