Visual Arts, Performing Arts and Design of East Asia
A.Y. 2019/2020
Learning objectives
Students are offered a general knowledge on artistic and creative languages of the Twentieth Century Japan - painting, photography, graphic and design - from a historical, linguistic and technical perspective, with a special consideration of the relations with the West and Italy in particular. Main events and artists which led Japan to change will be analyzed, from the opening of Japanese ports in 1854 and the novelties introduced in Japanese art, to arrive to analyze the artistic production of the Post-war that created the base of contemporary Japanese art.
Expected learning outcomes
Knowledge of the Japanese historical chronology, of the basic Japanese terminology in artistic-historical modern and contemporary field (movements, schools, artists, supports) and the correspondent English and Italian terms. Knowledge of the main events and developments of modern and contemporary Japanese art (painting, photography, graphic, design) in relation to the West.
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
Course syllabus
Introduction to the artistic languages in Twentieth century Japan (9 cfu, 60 hours)
Didactic unit A (n. 20 hours, cfu 3): [Japan opens to the West: exchanges and relations. Art and photography from Bakumatsu to Showa periods (1868-1945)]
Didactic unit B (n. 20 hours, cfu 3): [Japan opens to the West: exchanges and relations. Arts from Bakumatsu to Showa periods (1868-1945)]
Didactic unit C (n. 20 hours, cfu 3): [Artistic developments in Post-War Japan: arts, photography, design]
Didactic unit A (n. 20 hours, cfu 3): [Japan opens to the West: exchanges and relations. Art and photography from Bakumatsu to Showa periods (1868-1945)]
Didactic unit B (n. 20 hours, cfu 3): [Japan opens to the West: exchanges and relations. Arts from Bakumatsu to Showa periods (1868-1945)]
Didactic unit C (n. 20 hours, cfu 3): [Artistic developments in Post-War Japan: arts, photography, design]
Prerequisites for admission
Capacity to read, study and understand texts written in English. For those students who intend to follow also the course of "East Asian Art History" it's preferable (but not mandatory) to give priority to that course of "East Asian Art History" in order to have a basic knowledge of the history of art.
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons by use of projections: powe point and videos. Occasions of lessons at the Oriental Art Musems in Italy and/or at the temporary exhibitions opened during the course. Proposal of seminars with Japanese and East Asian professors, curators, artists
Teaching Resources
For students frequenting the course
Didactic Unit A
R. Menegazzo, Hokusai Hiroshige. Oltre l'Onda, Skira 2018
R. Menegazzo, "Le prime fotografie dall'Asia Orientale: tra documentazione storica e immaginario esotico", in La fotografia come fonte di storia, a cura di G.P. Brunetta e C. A. Zotti Minici, Venezia, IVSLA 2014, pp. 615-634.
L. Gasparini, R. Menegazzo, H. Yano (a cura di), Viaggiatori, fotografi, collezionisti nell'Oriente dell'Ottocento. Fotografie inedite della collezione dell'Ambasciatore Alberto Pansa alla Biblioteca Panizzi di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Biblioteca Panizzi Edizioni 2013.
M. Di Siena (a cura di), East Zone. Antonio Beato, Felice Beato e Adolfo Farsari, fotografi veneti attraverso l'Oriente dell'Ottocento, Treviso, Antiga Edizioni, 2011, pp. 20-26 (pp.34-38 inglese).
R. Menegazzo, "Fotografie e immaginario fotografico nelle silografie dell'ukiyoe Bakumatsu e Meiji" in Giappone, storie plurali, a cura di Matteo Casari e Paola Scrolavezza, Aistugia, Bologna, Il libri di Emil, 2013, pp. 207-218.
Lessons notes
Didactic Unit B
M. Ozaki, R. Matsubara, Arte in Giappone 1868-1945, Milano, Electa 2013
R. Menegazzo, M. Zetti, A. Coletto, Pagine Giapponesi. Immagini e racconti dal Giappone attraverso i libri della Biblioteca Braidense, Milano, Scalpendi, 2019.
Lessons notes
Unità didattica C
R Menegazzo, Domon Ken. Master of Japanese Realism, Milano, Skira 2016 (Engl. Ed)
R. Menegazzo, S. Piotti, WA. The Essence of Japanese Design, Phaidon, 2014. (Engl. Ed)
Lessons notes
Didactic Unit A
R. Menegazzo, Hokusai Hiroshige. Oltre l'Onda, Skira 2018
R. Menegazzo, "Le prime fotografie dall'Asia Orientale: tra documentazione storica e immaginario esotico", in La fotografia come fonte di storia, a cura di G.P. Brunetta e C. A. Zotti Minici, Venezia, IVSLA 2014, pp. 615-634.
L. Gasparini, R. Menegazzo, H. Yano (a cura di), Viaggiatori, fotografi, collezionisti nell'Oriente dell'Ottocento. Fotografie inedite della collezione dell'Ambasciatore Alberto Pansa alla Biblioteca Panizzi di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Biblioteca Panizzi Edizioni 2013.
M. Di Siena (a cura di), East Zone. Antonio Beato, Felice Beato e Adolfo Farsari, fotografi veneti attraverso l'Oriente dell'Ottocento, Treviso, Antiga Edizioni, 2011, pp. 20-26 (pp.34-38 inglese).
R. Menegazzo, "Fotografie e immaginario fotografico nelle silografie dell'ukiyoe Bakumatsu e Meiji" in Giappone, storie plurali, a cura di Matteo Casari e Paola Scrolavezza, Aistugia, Bologna, Il libri di Emil, 2013, pp. 207-218.
Lessons notes
Didactic Unit B
M. Ozaki, R. Matsubara, Arte in Giappone 1868-1945, Milano, Electa 2013
R. Menegazzo, M. Zetti, A. Coletto, Pagine Giapponesi. Immagini e racconti dal Giappone attraverso i libri della Biblioteca Braidense, Milano, Scalpendi, 2019.
Lessons notes
Unità didattica C
R Menegazzo, Domon Ken. Master of Japanese Realism, Milano, Skira 2016 (Engl. Ed)
R. Menegazzo, S. Piotti, WA. The Essence of Japanese Design, Phaidon, 2014. (Engl. Ed)
Lessons notes
Assessment methods and Criteria
Oral exam: "Student is requested to briefly present a free-choice subject, followed by some questions on subjects studied during the course to accertain the knowledge of an appropriate language and the main currents and personalities of Japanese art, design and photography, as well as the capacity to describe an art work among those studied during the courses "
Unità didattica A
L-OR/20 - EAST ASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY, ART HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unità didattica B
L-OR/20 - EAST ASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY, ART HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Unità didattica C
L-OR/20 - EAST ASIAN ARCHAEOLOGY, ART HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor(s)
Reception:
on appointment