During the Tang dynasty era of Ancient Chinese history, art, and fashion flourished as China came into contact with other cultures and beliefs through the Silk Road trade. The Dunhuang Caves is an excellent reservoir of collected art pieces and scripts. When reviewing the Caves, one is struck with the richness and diversity of its… Continue reading Final Project
Author: Emma
Week 13
This week we talked about Western art collectors. This was a fascinating topic when in conversation with Ming art collectors. It was frustrating to see how Western collectors completely disregarded the importance and cultural/religious significance of Ancient Chinese art. In one instance, a piece of the mural was completely torn off and brought back to… Continue reading Week 13
Final Project Draft
During the Tang dynasty era of Ancient Chinese history, art, and fashion flourished as China came into contact with other cultures and beliefs through the Silk Road trade. The Dunhuang Caves serve as an excellent reservoir of collected art pieces and scripts. When reviewing the Caves, one is struck with the richness and diversity of… Continue reading Final Project Draft
Week 12 Blog Post
This week, we reviewed Ming art collectors on Tuesday and imperial collections on Thursday. I wasn’t very intrigued with the content we reviewed so I’m not sure if my blog post will be able to bring any interesting discussion… Broadly speaking, we saw what kinds of goods art collectors had in their possessions. There were… Continue reading Week 12 Blog Post
Week 11 Blog Post
For week 11, our main discussion was on artisans in ancient China and their status. I found this topic particularly interesting, though getting through the assigned article was a bit rough and some of the concepts were out of my reach, (so please correct me if I need to understand). The article which was assigned… Continue reading Week 11 Blog Post
Ceramics
For this week’s class, we discussed porcelain and ceramics, as well as our writing workshop for our research papers. The pieces we viewed were very intriguing, and the techniques/processes used in order to create intricate and geometric designs were impressive. I liked seeing how Chinese porcelain continued the tradition of dragon imagery and symbolism– and… Continue reading Ceramics
Draft: Outline and paragraph
Introduction: Art as a lens of history has often been discredited due to its seemingly frivolous nature and our society’s value in the arts. Yet when taking ancient Chinese art in review one sees the depth and wealth of information gleaned. The fashions of the different periods serve as an indicator of ancient China’s socio-political… Continue reading Draft: Outline and paragraph
Week 9
For this week’s class we discussed inkstones, ancient Chinese text binding, stamps, etc. I found all of this not in my area of interest, though our discussions of inkstones were what intrigued me most. A question posed in class was why Prof. Ko insisted on “trying her hand at the processes and creating the objects… Continue reading Week 9
Week 7 Blog Post
I found that Week 6’s lessons were more comprehensible to me and easier to grasp, as we discussed the issues of currency and value. The resources I focused on were [Money on the Silk Road, Chinese Money in Global Context] Though I must admit that the chronology of when all of the different types of… Continue reading Week 7 Blog Post
Week 6
For this week’s classes, we talked about textiles. In all honesty, this specific topic was incredibly boring to me :,) We watched videos on how the yarn was produced. This was vaguely interesting to me as I enjoy knitting. Yet the process in which the people in the videos were able to make yarn seemed… Continue reading Week 6
