225. Status, Gender, and Identity in Japanese Visual Culture
Survey of selected aspects of Japanese art and architecture from Neolithic through recent times. Particular attention to issues of gender, cultural identity and social status in the production and reception of art and architecture. Exploration of transnational and inter-cultural sources of Japanese visual culture. Our inclusive exploration of Japanese art and architecture will address fundamental questions about when, how and why particular images and monuments have come to be considered part of a canon of "great works" in the discipline of Japanese art history.
(Sean McPherson)