Final Paper
You are encouraged to come up with a final paper topic of your own design that deals with issues relating to the artistic traditions of Edo/Tokyo. Please choose a topic that addresses material covered in the last two thirds of the course (Moronobu and beyond).
Alternately, you may want to think about how Japanese artists are constantly interrogating their relationship with the past and with the outside world. You might examine one group of Edo/Tokyo artists or one group of works of art associated with Edo/Tokyo from the perspective of tradition and transformation in the pre-modern period; or tradition and modernization in the Meiji or post-Meiji period. Otherwise you might focus on a school of artists such as the Hishikawa (Moronobu and his followers), an artistic practice such as the production of images of beautiful women (bijinga), or landscape, a type of painting such as Nihonga or YÇga, or a single artist such as the painter/printmaker Hokusai, Kobayashi Kiyochika, the architects Kenzo Tange or Hara Hiroshi, or the pop artist Murakami Takashi.
10 12 typewritten pages
due, Monday, December 17 at 4:00 pm
ALL EXTENSIONS MUST BE APPROVED
BY THE OFFICE OF THE DEAN OF STUDENTS