art

Lecture 1 of series - Introduction and Pre-Han Pictorial Art
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ4S-jCh4iE&sns=em

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http://jamescahill.info

Thanks!

Viewers can easily skip the first 56 minutes. In fact, the lectures would greatly benefit from a remix, adding structure and cutting out self-indulgent professorial rambling. The lecture is too much focused on the presenter and his recollections instead of the needs of a student. It is also highly questionable to say that there exist only two great art traditions - the Western and the Chinese. Indians, Arabs and many other cultures would object - with justification.

Viewers may want to supplement the professor's dated photographs of landscape with more recent examples as follows.

4:48 (video footage of the real thing)
Beautiful Chinese Music【11】Modern
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GpqhPpSap4&sns=em

Adrift by Simon Christen (4:35)
http://vimeo.com/69445362