Mar 29, 2024  
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2021-22 
    
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2021-22 [Archived Catalog]

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AH 4180 - Contemporary East Asian Art


The subject of study includes a range of media – installations and performance art, photography, anime, and narrative films from the late ‘90s to the present by artists identified as East Asian. Concerned with major exhibitions, benchmark events, and art movements along with theoretical writings, the course will provide an informed critical understanding of contemporary East Asian art in the global economy.

Requisites: Jr or Sr
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Upon completion of the course, the students will be able to –
  • define and describe the major artists, their individual artistic practices and influential artworks along with the formative writings of art historians and critics
  • explain and analyze the relevant benchmark exhibitions, artistic movements, and events (biennales, triennials, and art fairs), all taking place globally
  • compare and analyze affecting local and geopolitical circumstances and conditions that have influenced the formative artistic movements and events throughout East Asia
  • evaluate the significance of formal training and residencies, institutional support and individual collecting interests on the artists, from outside of East Asia on the artists
  • explain the intraregional formative relationships, at the artistic, conceptual, and socio-economic levels
  • compare and evaluate the prominence of contemporary East Asian artists in the global arena of art, continuing since the late 1990s
  • define and evaluate the changing and broadening boundaries of Contemporary East Asian art, from the late 1990s to the present



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