| Published | 2022-05-04 |
| Platform | Udemy |
| Price | $19.99 |
| Instructors |
Anna Hennessey, PhD
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| Subjects |
Mountains as Humans and Humans as Mountains
This course, which comprises 3 videos, explores how mountains are represented as humans and humans are represented as mountains in the art and culture of China’s Song Period, which dates from 960-1279 CE. More broadly, the course looks at how Chinese people affiliated with different religions and philosophies of the past, especially those who lived during China’s medieval period, used artistic, literary and visual representations to merge the natural world with the human body and character. This fusion of natural and human worlds in representation appears in a variety of contexts, including paintings by famous landscape artists, writings of scholarly thinkers known as the “literati”, architectural developments on sacred mountains, interesting diagrams and body charts used in Daoism in which the human body merges with mountains and the natural world, and artwork connected to Chinese Buddhism.
Students who have not studied Chinese culture will gain thorough knowledge of China’s art, philosophy and religion during one of its most well-known and innovative moments in history. Specialists will appreciate a new understanding of the interrelationship between the natural world, ideology, art, politics, philosophy and religion during the Song Period.
The videos do not center around a speaker or speakers giving lectures. Instead, they show a large number of art images and objects from material culture related to medieval China. Included in these images are beautiful photos, videos and artistic representations of China’s mountains and the natural world. All copyright information and resource materials are listed at the end of each video.