HART0036: Art and Mass Culture in Contemporary East Asia - Weekly Topics and Suggested Reading

Indicative Weekly Topics

The “Forms” of Empire: Colonial Representations of East Asia
Icons of Femininity: Making Japanese National Painting
What is the “Avant-Garde” in the Chinese Context?
Socialist Realism
Taiwan New Cinema
Labour, Kinship, and Queer Diaspora in Hong Kong Film
Information Fantasies: Transmission and Corporeality

Suggested Reading

Namiko Kuminoto, The Stakes of Exposure: Anxious Bodies in Postwar Japanese Art (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017).
Christine I. Ho, Drawing From Life: Sketching and Socialist Realism in the People’s Republic of China (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020).
Joan Kee, The Geometries of Afro Asia: Art Beyond Solidarity (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023).