Session 22: Song China ④: Paintings & ceramics

Topics

❖ Song tea-related paintings:

• "Lofty Scholar" Wei Xian (Late Tang)
• "Night Revels" Gu Hongzhong (Northern Song)
• "Literary Gathering" Emp. Huizong (late Northern Song)
• "Crushing Tea" Liu Songnian (Southern Song)
• "Tea Drinking Competition" Liu Songnian (Southern Song)
• "Versed in the Ancient" Liu Songnian (Southern Song)
• "Tea Drinking Competition" Zhao Mengfu (Yuan)

❖ Song ceramics:

• Ding (定) ware
• Ru (汝) ware
• Guan (官) ware
• Jun (鈞・钧) ware
• Jian (建) ware

Thoughts—read before class, revisit for tests

text.

Required—to be completed for today's session

✓ For this session we look at Song paintings, especially the details in the paintings. On bSpace there are two files: a PPT titled Song tea-related paintings and a zip file titled SongPaintingGuessComponentsPacket. The zip file has specific "zoomed in" areas of the paintings in the PPT. Using the PPT and any other resources you would like to use, look at the objects in the "zoomed in" images and decide as best you can what they are. I will ask individual students to name specific objects.

✓ Song Ceramics [bSpace, PPT] (This file is not made accessible until after the session.)

✓ Song notes [bSpace, PDF] *You are invited to print this out before class and use it as a base document for note-taking. Please check back, however, to see if a new version was published just before or perhaps after the session (but in time for a test). — These notes cover the several sessions. Compare the topics stated on this session page with the actual progress in class to get a sense for how much to read ahead of time and/or printe out to bring to class. (Printing out all the notes once at the beginning might not be the best option since there is a likelihood that they will be updated as I prepare or complete lectures. The Song lecture support notes are less complete than most other support notes.

Multimedia notes

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Links

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Other

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Links to each session page

Sun, Sept 1, 2013: I am migrating this site to a new site. It takes time. During this transition, there are two ways to access a particular day's web page. You can start with the new EA109 Fall 2013 Course Guide page, our official top page. It will take you directly to the new pages and redirect to old pages when necessary. Or you can use the below chart. It will take you directly to the day's session page—the new one when it exists, the old one when it has yet to be migrated. Greenhighlight means the new page exists. Sorry for the dust and mess during construction!