13604
Seminar
Materials and Media in East Asian Art
Piaopiao Yang
Information for students
During course sessions the instructor speaks mainly in English, but participants are free to communicate either in English or German
Comments
Materials and media in art are not only functional but also imbued with profound cultural meaning. This seminar surveys major sites of artistic production, ritual practice, and cultural display in East Asia—including tombs, temples, palaces, scholars’ studios, shoguns’ residences, and gardens—through the lens of material and medial agency. Together we will consider how materials and media themselves shape these settings and connect to larger questions of representation, ecology, world history, and gender. Readings will combine pioneering scholarship, theoretical texts, and recent studies that emphasize material and medial approaches, providing a framework for examining topics from the Chinese Bronze Age to the early modern period. Organized thematically rather than chronologically, the seminar opens space for cross-temporal and cross-regional comparisons. Students are encouraged to introduce case studies of their own choosing in their presentations and term papers, thereby applying course concepts to individual research interests and material-specific inquiries.
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16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2025-10-14 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2025-10-21 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2025-10-28 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2025-11-04 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2025-11-11 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2025-11-18 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2025-11-25 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2025-12-02 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2025-12-09 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2025-12-16 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2026-01-06 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2026-01-13 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2026-01-20 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2026-01-27 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2026-02-03 14:00 - 16:00
Tue, 2026-02-10 14:00 - 16:00