James Cahill, distinguished UC Berkeley art historian, created this series in 2011. The formal name of the course is "A Pure and Remote View: Visualizing Early Chinese Landscape Painting." There are more than 30 videos in the series. It's easy to choose a topic or period and to jump in.
https://www.youtube.com/user/UCBerkeleyEvents/search?query=james+cahill
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05/15/2015 05:54 PM
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courses on asia available via youtube
Not a course, exactly, but a series of profusely-illustrated lectures on aspects of Japanese art history. Please take a look and comment.
Flaming Pots and the Precocious Foragers of Ancient Japan (2012) by Simon Kaner of the University of East Anglia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOj5aJg8tLs
Art of the Samurai (2009)
1. introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2teJm9ywk3I&list=PL9E147786D702C69B
2. Japanese Arms and Armor, 1156-1868 by Victor Harris, British Museum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8BW86UrO1k
3. How to Polish a Japanese Sword (2010) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut1Okf0AYRg
4. Conserving Works in Foreign Collections (2009) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rQk9dFFXnA
Story-telling in Japanese Art (2012), several speakers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrDw0742rHk
Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art (2012) by Haruo Shirane of Columbia University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqiCGmIIm20
Japanese Mandelas: Emanations and Avatars (2009) by Columbia's Bernard Faure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut1Okf0AYRg
edited by Clay Dube on 4/21/2015
This short two video set shows the steps involved in producing a blue and white porcelain kendi. Porcelain artist Yuki Nyhan demonstrates.
1. recreating, forming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQXitopWdhQ
2. painting in cobalt https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zFgq2L-bI8
See the original at the Art Institute of Chicago site: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/25230
The Sackler Gallery in Washington produced this video (many years ago) on porcelain production at the famous Jingdezhen workshops. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3ckTvhBAg4
edited by Clay Dube on 4/21/2015
When I traveled to Vietnam ,in a small gift shop in Hanoi I found A little tea pot covered in barnacles and shells.It had obviously spent some time on the bottom of the ocean.The pottery was used as ballast to give the ship stability which had not been enough in this case.i could not find any information about the site of the wreck or the provenance of the tea pot so I decided not to buy it.I still regret it
edited by scarjan on 5/3/2015
The past few weeks have consisted of testing and weird class schedules. This week was filled with three days of student-led conferences, late days, and minimum days (for students). It was exhausting for both my students and myself. Talking about the geography of China took longer than planned and I switched today's lesson from philosophies of China to intro to Shang Dynasty because it allowed the students to work collaboratively. I decided to begin the lesson with a fun video introducing the topic. I was not familiar with this video til last night. It was created by a teacher, Mr. Nicky, and his students. It is sang to the tune of Blurred Lines by Pharell and Robin Thicke. As soon as previewed the video at home I knew that my 6th grade students would like it. I was wrong, they love it. They asked me to replay the video. So I said, "sure I will replay it if you can answer a few of my questions." They did. I replayed it and they were intrigued. I then assigned the first reader of the group. They were quick to begin their reading. Once they finished their reading as a group, each student was to write 3 questions and answers for each section. These questions and answers are going to later be used for a "quiz-quiz-trade" or "quiz-quiz" activity. They requested that I played the video as they worked on their individual question. I played the video without projecting it. It played over and over and over and over again. The only talking was them singing the lyrics and they got most of their questions done. Who would've thought that my last minute change in lesson would've been so effective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTNyIJHcPd0
edited by malvarenga on 5/16/2015