FEMININE SPACE IN CHINESE ART AND VISUAL CULTURE

Professor Wu Hung (University of Chicago, Art History) und Professor Judith Zeitlin (University of Chicago, East Asian Languages and Civilizations)

Feminine space denotes an actual or imaginary space, which is perceived and represented as a woman. Unlike an isolated female portrait or an individual female symbol, a feminine space is a spatial entity — an artificial world comprised of landscape, vegetation, architecture, atmosphere, climate, color, fragrance, light, and sound, as well as selected human occupants and their activities. This course traces the construction of this space in traditional Chinese art and visual culture (including representations of such space in literature and theater) and the social/political implications of this constructive process.

ACHTUNG: Blockseminar, 20.06.2011 – 01.07.2011 (vorlesungsfreie Zeit), genaue Termine werden noch bekannt gegeben
Ort: Seminarraum Villa Schönberg (Museum Rietberg), Gablerstrasse 14
Unterrichtssprache ist Englisch