Visual Arts, Performing Arts and Design of East Asia
A.Y. 2020/2021
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
During the emergency period, lessons will be delivered online mainly asynchronously with some lessons held synchronously, through Ariel and Teams.
Students will find all the information to access the online lessons (links etc.) and any adjustment to the course program and bibliography by checking the course teaching site on Ariel.
If it will be required by health emergency, students will take the examination online, through the Teams platform, according to the procedures that will be notified on the Ariel page at the end of the course lessons.
Examination and evaluation:
Oral exam will be held on Teams according to the indications given by University.
All the information about the examination dates will be updated on the site of the course on Ariel. Methods will be quite the same as for the exam in presence with the final vote communicated at the end of the discussion.
Teaching methods:
Lessons will be delivered mainly asynchronously (power point with audio comments, videos, link to online materials) on Ariel. Materials will be online on the prefixed days of lessons and available until the end of the course. Some lessons (indicatively at the end of each unit) will be delivered synchronously on Teams in form of discussion, with the possibility to have questions from the students to deepen any content studied during the course.
Lessons calendar and details about activities will be published on the course online site and through advises on Ariel.
Reference materials:
A student is considered as an attending student when following all indications given about didactic activities and referring to all materials delivered online as well as to the bibliography of the program.
Students will find all the information to access the online lessons (links etc.) and any adjustment to the course program and bibliography by checking the course teaching site on Ariel.
If it will be required by health emergency, students will take the examination online, through the Teams platform, according to the procedures that will be notified on the Ariel page at the end of the course lessons.
Examination and evaluation:
Oral exam will be held on Teams according to the indications given by University.
All the information about the examination dates will be updated on the site of the course on Ariel. Methods will be quite the same as for the exam in presence with the final vote communicated at the end of the discussion.
Teaching methods:
Lessons will be delivered mainly asynchronously (power point with audio comments, videos, link to online materials) on Ariel. Materials will be online on the prefixed days of lessons and available until the end of the course. Some lessons (indicatively at the end of each unit) will be delivered synchronously on Teams in form of discussion, with the possibility to have questions from the students to deepen any content studied during the course.
Lessons calendar and details about activities will be published on the course online site and through advises on Ariel.
Reference materials:
A student is considered as an attending student when following all indications given about didactic activities and referring to all materials delivered online as well as to the bibliography of the program.
Course syllabus
Title of the course:
Introduction to the artistic languages in Twentieth century Japan (60 hours, 9 cfu)
- Part A (20 hours, cfu 3):
[Japan opens to the West: exchanges and relations. Art and photography from Bakumatsu to Showa periods (1868-1945)]
- Part B (20 hours, cfu 3):
[Japan opens to the West: exchanges and relations. Arts from Bakumatsu to Showa periods (1868-1945)]
- Part C (20 hours, cfu 3):
[Artistic developments in Post-War Japan: arts, photography, design]
Introduction to the artistic languages in Twentieth century Japan (60 hours, 9 cfu)
- Part A (20 hours, cfu 3):
[Japan opens to the West: exchanges and relations. Art and photography from Bakumatsu to Showa periods (1868-1945)]
- Part B (20 hours, cfu 3):
[Japan opens to the West: exchanges and relations. Arts from Bakumatsu to Showa periods (1868-1945)]
- Part C (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 in power point and videos. Proposal of seminars with Japanese and East Asian professors, curators, artists. Calendar of the lessons and details of activities will be published during the course online and through advises on Ariel.
Teaching Resources
Part A
- 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 (edited by), 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 (edited by), 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, edited by Matteo Casari, Paola Scrolavezza, Aistugia, Bologna, Il libri di Emil, 2013, pp. 207-218.
- Allen Hockley, Cameras, Photographs and Photography in Nineteenth-Century Japanese Prints, Japanese Art Society of America, 2001, No. 23, pp. 42-63 (J-store online)
- Lessons materials
Part B
- J. Thomas Rimer, Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868-2000, University of Hawaii Press, 2011.
- R. Menegazzo, M. Zetti, A. Coletto, Pagine Giapponesi. Immagini e racconti dal Giappone attraverso i libri della Biblioteca Braidense, Milano, Scalpendi, 2019.
Suggested volume:
- M. Ozaki, R. Matsubara, Arte in Giappone 1868-1945, Milano, Electa 2013 (Department library)
- Lessons materials
Part C
- R Menegazzo, Domon Ken. Il maestro del realismo giapponese, Milano, Skira 2016.
- R. Menegazzo, "Mingei e Mingu: ridefinire il quotidiano tra artigianato e design contemporaneo", in Giappone. L'arte nel quotidiano. Manufatti dalla collezione Jeffrey Montgomery, Lugano, Museo Vincenzo Vela 2019, pp. 22-33 (English available).
- R. Menegazzo, S. Piotti, WA. L'essenza del design giapponese, L'Ippocampo/Phaidon, 2015 (English ed.).
- Lessons materials
- 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 (edited by), 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 (edited by), 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, edited by Matteo Casari, Paola Scrolavezza, Aistugia, Bologna, Il libri di Emil, 2013, pp. 207-218.
- Allen Hockley, Cameras, Photographs and Photography in Nineteenth-Century Japanese Prints, Japanese Art Society of America, 2001, No. 23, pp. 42-63 (J-store online)
- Lessons materials
Part B
- J. Thomas Rimer, Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868-2000, University of Hawaii Press, 2011.
- R. Menegazzo, M. Zetti, A. Coletto, Pagine Giapponesi. Immagini e racconti dal Giappone attraverso i libri della Biblioteca Braidense, Milano, Scalpendi, 2019.
Suggested volume:
- M. Ozaki, R. Matsubara, Arte in Giappone 1868-1945, Milano, Electa 2013 (Department library)
- Lessons materials
Part C
- R Menegazzo, Domon Ken. Il maestro del realismo giapponese, Milano, Skira 2016.
- R. Menegazzo, "Mingei e Mingu: ridefinire il quotidiano tra artigianato e design contemporaneo", in Giappone. L'arte nel quotidiano. Manufatti dalla collezione Jeffrey Montgomery, Lugano, Museo Vincenzo Vela 2019, pp. 22-33 (English available).
- R. Menegazzo, S. Piotti, WA. L'essenza del design giapponese, L'Ippocampo/Phaidon, 2015 (English ed.).
- Lessons materials
Assessment methods and Criteria
Oral exam. Student is requested to briefly present (few minutes) a free-choice subject among those studied during the course to demonstrate the capacity to research autonomously bibliographic and iconographic materials with a critical approach and an adequate language. Questions by the teacher aim to ascertain the comprehension of the concepts and the knowledge of the specific language, the main currents and personalities of Japanese modern and contemporary arts, design and photography. The exam is valued with a vote out of thirty which will be communicated at the end of the discussion with immediate approval.
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