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Semester 2

Modern Art in Shanghai, 1840-1930 (HIAR10107)

Subject

History of Art

College

CAHSS

Credits

20

Normal Year Taken

3

Delivery Session Year

2023/2024

Pre-requisites

Visiting students must have completed 3 History of Art courses at grade B or above, and please note that we will not consider History courses unrelated to Art, or practical Art courses, towards these pre-requisites. We will only consider University/College level courses. Please see Additional Restrictions below.

Course Summary

The course will focus on four major themes: orthodox school and new media; urbanism and marketable art; foreign stimuli, and defining modernity. A variety of materials examined will include: traditional ink painting of various popular subjects, metal and stone studies, archaic calligraphy and seal carving, early photography, rubbing, lithography, pictorials on printed matters, newspaper illustration, colonial architecture, posters for calendar, theatre and the early cinema. The course will encourage the students to review art in its historical and social contexts, and address how artistic production and visual culture were shaped by the new urbanism in Shanghai, and the significance of the first metropolis city of China in the formation of a nation's modernity.

Course Description

**Week 1: Painting Tradition in Shanghai before 1840; Definition of the Shanghai School. **Week 2: Landscape Painting, Bird and Flower Painting **Week 3: Figure Painting **Week 4: Calligraphy, Epigraphy and Archaic Painting **Week 5: Forgery Making and the Shanghai Art Market **Week 6: Advertising Culture and the Shanghai Painting Style **Week 7: Art, Sexuality and Patronage **Week 8: Western Influence and Early Western Art Education in Shanghai. **Week 9: Early Photography and Cinema **Week 10: Colonial Architecture and Cityscape **Week 11: Debates about Art and Modernity.

Assessment Information

Written Exam 50%, Coursework 50%, Practical Exam 0%

Additional Restrictions

Unless you are nominated on a History of Art exchange agreement, visiting students are only permitted to enrol in one 3rd year History of Art course each, per semester, before the start of the relevant semester’s welcome period – and spaces on each course are limited so cannot be guaranteed for any student. Enrolment in a second course from this group will depend on whether there are still spaces available in the January Welcome Period, and cannot be guaranteed. It is NOT appropriate for students to contact staff within this subject area to ask for an exception to be made; all enquiries to enrol in these courses must be made through the CAHSS Visiting Student Office. This is due to the extremely limited number of spaces available in this very popular subject area.

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