Type of Credit: Partially Required
Credit(s)
The class will examine the diversified definition of art in Taiwan from a new art history perspective. By investigating topics such as the establishment of the National Palace Museum, the debate over the orthodoxy of a national painting, American aid and the development of modernism, the rise of nativist and craft movements, reconsideration of toyoga art under the Japanese as well as other recent developments, students will explore, discuss, and contemplate the connections between art and issues such as the construction of nationhood, modernization, local identity, feminism, and post-modernism. The class will be conducted in English
能力項目說明
The purpose of the course is to teach students about the development of art in Taiwan, and the complex relationships between art, culture and national identity.
3/2 Introduction課程簡介： Art and National Identity 藝術與國家認同
3/9 Establishment of the Republic of China in Taiwan 中華民國遷台
The National Palace Museum 故宮在台建館
Chinese art in Taiwan 在台灣的中國藝術
*Reading: Ju, Jane C., “Chinese Art, the National Palace Museum and Cold War Politics,” in Partisan Canons, edited by Anna Brzyski, Durham: Duke University Press 2007, pp. 115-134.
3/16 Literati art and artists from the mainland 文人藝術與文人藝術家
The debate over the orthodoxy of a national painting or guohua (國畫) 國畫正統論爭
Introduction of Literati artists 渡海三家介紹
P’u Hsin-yu 溥心畬; Huang Chun-pi 黃君璧; Chang Ta-ch’ien 張大千
*Reading: Kuo, Jason C. Art and Cultural Politics in Postwar Taiwan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000, pp. 84-101.
3/23 Modernism in Taiwan 在台灣的現代主義
Cold War─American aid and influence 冷戰─美援與其影響
The Fifth-Moon Group(五月畫會): Liu Kuo-sung 劉國松; Chuang Che 莊喆; Ch’en Ting-shih 陳庭詩
Dongfang Group (東方畫會): Wu Hao 吳昊; Hsiao Chin 蕭勤; Chin Song秦松
*Reading: Lu, Ching-fu, “Modernisms Experimental Period,”Taiwan Art (1945-1993), Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 1993, pp. 51-61.
3/30 Rescinding of UN membership 台灣退出聯合國: Redefining Taiwanese art 台灣藝術 再定義
Art of the aborigines 原住民的藝術
*Reading: Chia-yu Hu, “Taiwanese Aboriginal Art and Artifacts,”in Kikuchi, Yuko, ed. Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007, pp. 193-215.
4/6 Holiday--no class
4/13 Nativist hsiang-tu movement 鄉土運動
Yen Shui-lung and Taiwan craft movement 顏水龍與台灣工藝運動
Traditional local art and crafts 本地傳統藝術與工藝
*Reading: Yuko Kikuchi, “Refracted Colonial Modernity,” in Kikuchi, Yuko, ed. Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007, pp. 219-247.
4/20 Reports
4/27 Recognition of art under the Japanese 日治時期的藝術
Introduction of elder masters of the Japanese period 前輩畫家介紹
Ch’en Chern-po 陳澄波; Lin Yu-Shan 林玉山; Kuo Hsueh-hu 郭雪湖;
Chen Chin 陳進
*Reading: Kuo, Jason C. Art and Cultural Politics in Postwar Taiwan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000, pp. 32-83.
Chuan-ying Yen, “The Demise of Oriental-style Painting in Taiwan,” in Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan, Kikuchi, Yuko, ed. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007, pp. 83-108.
5/4 Naïve art 素人藝術 and Women’s art女性藝術:
Hung Tung 洪通; Ch’en Cheng-rui 陳正瑞; Yen Ming-hui 嚴明惠
*Reading: Victoria Y. Lu, “Hung Tung: Visionary King of Taiwan,” in Vernacular Visionaries: International Outsider Art, edited by Annie Carlano, Santa Fe, New Mexico: The Museum of International Folk Art, 2003, pp. 80-90
Ming-chu Lai, “Modernity, Power, and Gender,” in Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan, Kikuchi, Yuko, ed. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007, pp. 133-165.
5/11 Lifting of martial law 1980年至當代─解嚴後
Political art 政治藝術: Wu Tien-chang 吳天章; Pei Ch’i-yu 斐啟瑜; Yang Mao-lin 楊茂林
*Reading: Kuo, Jason C. Art and Cultural Politics in Postwar Taiwan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000, pp. 138-175.
5/18 No class (NCCU Athletic Day)
5/25 Art as Business 藝術是商業？ (or visit museum/gallery)
*Reading: Rachel F.F. Lee, “Anti-Mainstream Showcases,” Free China Review, Vol. 43, No. 3, March 1993, pp. 32-37.
6/1 Diversity of expressions 多元表現
Jun T-Lai 賴純純; Wu Ma-Li 吳瑪俐; Lu Hsien-ming 陸先銘; Huang Jin-ho 黃進河; Hsu Yu-jen 許雨仁
*Reading: Emma Wu, “Anything Goes,” Free China Review, Vol. 43, No. 3, March 1993, pp. 10-31.
6/8 Reports
6/15 Toward a new identity: Taiwanese art? Asian art or art of the Chinese diaspora? 新認 同：台灣藝術？亞洲藝術？離散的中國藝術？
*Reading: Gao Minglu, “Toward a Transnational Modernity: An Overview of Inside Out:New Chinese Art,” in Inside Out: New Chinese Art, edited by Gao Minglu, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998, pp. 15-40.
Chiu, Melissa, “An Expanded Chinese Art History,” in Asian Art History in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Vishakha N. Desai, Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007, pp. 211-228.
6/22 New Art in Taiwan
Related materials and readings will be added to the list depending on the exhibitions available.
6/29 Final Open-book Exam 期末考
(Discussions and all written work are to be in English.)
Oral and written reports—40%
Final open-book exam—30%
Class attendance and participation—30%
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities. London: Verso, 1983.
Asian Art History in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Vishakha N. Desai, Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007
Clunas, Craig. Art in China. London: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Vishakha N. Desai, ed., Asian Art History in the Twenty-First Century, Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007
Gao, Minglu, ed. Inside Out: New Chinese Art, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998,
Ju, Jane C., “Chinese Art, the National Palace Museum and Cold War Politics,” in Partisan Canons, edited by Anna Brzyski, Durham: Duke University Press 2007, pp. 115-134.
Kuo, Jason C. Art and Cultural Politics in Postwar Taiwan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2000.
Kikuchi, Yuko, ed. Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2007.
Taiwan Art (1945-1993), Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 1993
Vernacular Visionaries: International Outsider Art, edited by Annie Carlano, Santa Fe, New Mexico: The Museum of International Folk Art, 2003