(BA) (4-year-programme) - The University of Hong Kong

106contribution of non-Western artists. A thematic approach will be adopted, with tendencies such asPop Art, Minimal and Post-Minimal art, Environmental and Installation Art, Performance Art,Conceptual and Neo-Conceptual Art being amongst those which may be considered. A wide varietyof artworks dating from 1945 to the present day will be discussed.Assessment: 100% coursework.Prerequisite: One 1000-level Fine Arts course.FINE2031.The rise of modern architecture in Western culture (6 credits)Tracing the development of Western architecture from ancient Greece onward, this course focuses onthe 19th and 20th centuries, from Neoclassicism in Washington, D.C. and Haussmann's renovation ofParis to the Bauhaus in Germany and the international spread of Modernism and Postmodernism.Emphasis is placed on the way buildings express institutional ideologies, as well as on constructiontechnology and architectural theory. Numerous examples from Hong Kong are included.Assessment: 100% coursework.FINE2032.Art and the portrayal of women (6 credits)This course will consider the representation of women in Western art. The approach will be thematic,and examples ranging from medieval to modern will be considered. Topics will include ‘good’women (virgins, saints, mothers, wives) and ‘bad’ (fallen women, temptresses, witches), as well as thenude and the portrait. Both religious and secular images will be considered.Assessment: 100% coursework.FINE2048.Arts of Japan (6 credits)This course surveys Japanese visual arts from prehistory to the eighteenth century. Lectures arechronologically arranged under thematic headings of: religion and politics, cross-cultural influencesand urban arts. We will be looking at a diverse range of materials including painting, sculptures, prints,textiles and ceramics. The aim is to establish a solid critical foundation of Japanese art history.Assessment: 100% coursework.FINE2049.Art and gender in China (6 credits)This class will examine the role of gender in the production, consumption, and interpretation ofChinese art. Classes are chronologically organized into three broad time periods covering differentthemes each week. Topics will include the coding of landscapes and bird-and-flower paintings asgendered spaces, and the construction of male and female socio-political identities in portraits andfigure paintings. The course is not intended to provide an overview of Chinese art, but a base that canchallenge traditional perceptions of what constitutes masculinity and femininity. The broad historicalframe will address how socio-cultural factors influencing gender roles in the arts, culture, and societychanged over time. It will, more importantly, look at how these issues intersect with questions ofethnicity, social hierarchy, economic and cultural capital, and nationalism.Assessment: 100% coursework.Prerequisites: One 1000-level Fine Arts course.