Courses

Fall 2024

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  • AHIS GR6612 The Painting of Early Modern Life in Japan: Genre Painting - M. McKelway

Spring 2024

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  • AHIS GU4064 Arts of the Silk Road - J. Xu
  • AHIS GU4762 Art and Archaeology of Immigrants in Chinese History - J. Xu
  • AHIS GU4763 Reading Places and Images in Edo-period Illustrated Books - M. McKelway; T. Noguchi
  • AHIS GR8611 Ink Painting of Medieval Japan - M. McKelway; A. Shimao

Fall 2023

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  • AHIS GU4062 Chinese Art: Center and Periphery - J. Xu
  • AHIS GR4110 Modern Japanese Architecture - J. Reynolds
  • AHIS GR8613 Early Modern Japanese Ceramics - M. McKelway; M. Arakawa

Spring 2023

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  • AHIS GR8675 Ukiyo-e: Beyond the Great Wave - J. Davis
  • AHIS GR8663 Chinese Painting Connoisseurship: Masters and Imitators - A. Murck

Fall 2022

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  • AHIS GU4761 Kimono Style at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Japanese Textile Art and Fashion - A. Higonnet; M. Bincsik
  • AHIS GR8604 Japanese Photography - J. Reynolds

Spring 2022

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  • AHIS GR8401 Rhetoric of the Avant-Garde in Japan - J. Reynolds
  • AHIS GR8674 Birds and Flowers in the Arts of China and Japan - R. Harrist; M. McKelway

Fall 2021

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  • AHIS GU4110 Modern Japanese Architecture - J. Reynolds
  • AHIS GR6601 Painting in the Song Dynasty - R. Harrist
  • AHIS GR8128 Edo Period Painting - M. McKelway

Spring 2021

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  • AHIS GU4760 Great Waves: Arts of the Floating World - M. McKelway
  • AHIS GR8639 Reading Places and Images in Edo-period Illustrated Books - M. McKelway
  • AHIS GR8663 Chinese Painting Connoisseurship: Song Dynasty (1127–1279) and Muromachi (1336–1573) Ink Painting - F. Murck

Fall 2020

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  • AHIS GR8657 Japanese Colonialism and East Asian Visual Culture - J. Reynolds
  • AHIS GR8661 Problems in Kano Painting - M. McKelway

Spring 2020

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  • AHIS GU4110 Modern Japanese Architecture - J. Reynolds
  • AHIS GR6611; AHIS GR8643 Painting in Sixteenth-Century Japan - M. McKelway
  • AHIS GR8606 Japanese Architecture: Tokyo - J. Reynolds
  • AHIS GR8649 Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Connoisseurship: Dong Qichang - A. Murck

Fall 2019

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  • AHIS GR6610 Heian Period Buddhist Painting, 11—12th Centuries - R. Masuki and M. McKelway
  • AHIS GR8639 Reading Places and Images in Edo-period Illustrated Books - M. McKelway

Spring 2019

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  • AHIS GR8616 Chinese Painting Connoisseurship: Authenticity, Forgeries, and Deceptions - A. Murck
  • AHIS GR8618 The Evolution of Iconography in the Tale of Genji Paintings - E. Bauer

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  • EAAS GU4022 Japanese Buddhist Visual Culture - D. M. Moerman and M. Chusid

Fall 2018

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  • AHIS GU4676 Slow Looking: A History of Chinese Art in Ten Objects from the Metropolitan Museum of Art - R. Harrist
  • AHIS GR8604 Japanese Photography - J. Reynolds
  • AHIS GR8028 Changing Faces: Portraiture in Africa, Asia, the Near East, and Beyond - R. Harrist
  • AHIS GR8614 Ukiyo-e Prints, Paintings, and Illustrated Books - J. Carpenter

Spring 2018

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  • AHIS GU4110 Modern Japanese Architecture - J. Reynolds
  • AHIS GU4566 Streams and Mountains: The Art of Landscape Painting in China - R. Harrist, D. Greenberg
  • AHIS GR8611 Ink Paintings of Medieval Japan - M. McKelway, A. Shimao
  • AHIS GR8612 Japanese Art—Transcultural Perspectives - M. Trede

Fall 2017

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  • AHIS GR8128 Edo Period Painting - M. McKelway
  • AHIS GR8401 The Rhetoric of the Avant-Garde in Japan - J. Reynolds
  • AHIS GR8609 Calligraphy in East Asia - R. Harrist, M. McKelway

Spring 2017

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  • AHIS GR8608 Emperors (Tennō) in Medieval Japanese Art History - A. Takagishi
  • AHIS GR8606 Japanese Architecture - J. Reynolds

Fall 2016

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  • AHIS GU4061 Ink Painting in China and Japan - R Harrist, M. McKelway
  • AHIS GR6605 Japanese Narrative Handscrolls - M. McKelway, M. Yonekura
  • AHIS GR8600 Chinese Painting and Decorative Arts - R. Harrist

Spring 2016

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  • AHIS G6140 Japanese Arts of the Momoyama Period - M. McKelway
  • AHIS W4110 Modern Japanese Architecture - J. Reynolds

Fall 2015

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  • AHIS G8134 Rimpa - M. McKelway

Spring 2015

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  • AHIS G6125 Painting in the Song Dynasty - R. Harrist

Fall 2014

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  • AHIS G4102 Chinese Art Under the Mongols - R. Harrist
  • AHIS G8131 The Rhetoric of the Avant-Garde in Japan - J. Reynolds

Spring 2014

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  • AHIS G8123 Chinese Art at Columbia - R. Harrist
  • AHIS G8128 Edo Period Painting - M. McKelway