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Terms for the class at UCSB Art History 6DS Winter Quarter 2016
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
01/20/2016

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Earthenware bowl decorated with fish motif. China, from Banpo, Shaanxi Province. Neolithic Period, Yangshao culture. Circa 4500-4000 B.C.


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Bowl decorated with masks and net motifs. China, from Banpo, Shaanxi Province. Neolithic Period, Yangshao culture. Circa 4500-4000 B.C.
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Earthenware bowl with abstract turtle design. China, Neolithic Period, Yangshao culture, Majia type, Gansu Province. Ca 3500-3000 B.C.
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 Ceremonial jade known as a cong from Yuyang, Zhejiang Province. China, Neolithic Period, Longshan culture. Ca 2500-2000 B.C.
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Detail of a jade cong showing a bird-man shaman motif from Yuyang, Zhejiang Province. China, Neolithic Period, Longshan culture. Ca 2500-2000 B.C.
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White pottery tripod jug known as a gui from Weifang, Shandong Province. China, Neolithic Period, Longshan culture. Ca 2500 B.C.
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Bronze ritual vessel type known as jue. China, Shang dynasty, Erlitou phase, first half second millenium B.C. Erlitou, Henan Province.
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Bronze ritual vessel type known as fang ding. China, Shang dynasty, Zhengzhou phase, mid-second millenium B.C. Zhengzhou, Henan Province.


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Bronze ritual vessel type known as yu in the form of a man and beast. China, Shang dynasty, Anyang phase, ca 1300-1100 B.C. Provenance undetermined.
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Bronze ritual vessel type known as fang yi. China, Shang dynasty, Anyang phase, ca. 1300-1100 B.C. Provenance undetermined.
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Tortoise plastron with "oracle bone" writing. China, Shang dynasty, Anyang phase, ca 1300-1100 B.C. Anyang, Henan Province.
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Bronze ritual vessel, type called gui. (vessel is called the Li gui). China, Western Zhou, first year of Wu Wang's reign, 11th century, B.C. Shaanxi Province.
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 Bronze ritual vessel, type called pan, belonging to Shi Qiang and bearing a 270-character inscription recounting the history of the Zhou dynasty. Datable to ca. 917-900 BCE. Western Zhou Period. From Fufeng, Shaanxi Province.
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Bronze ritual vessel, type called hu, with scenes of hunting, ritual and music. China, Eastern Zhou, 4th century B.C. Sichuan Province.
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Detail of a rubbing from the hu with scenes of hunting, ritual and music. China, Eastern Zhou, 4th century B.C. Sichuan Province.
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Three attendants. Wood with pigments. China, Warring States Period (State of Chu), ca. 3rd century B.C. From Changsha, Hunan Province.
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Kneeling Archer. Terracotta. China, Qin dynasty, ca 220 B.C. From near the tomb of Qin Shihuangdi, Shaanxi Province.


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Feiyi spirit banner. Silk with ink and pigments. China, Han dynasty (Western Han period), ca 170 B.C. From the tomb of the Countess Dai, Mawangdui, Hunan Province.


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Detail of the feiyi spirit banner. China, Han dynasty (Western Han period), ca 170 B.C. From the tomb of the Countess Dai, Mawangdui, Hunan Province.
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Boshanlu hill censer. Bronze with gold inlay. China, Han dynasty, ca 125 B.C. From the tomb of Liu Sheng, Mancheng, Hebei Province.
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Watchtower with archers. Earthenware tomb figure with green glaze. China, Han dynasty (Eastern Han period), ca. 100-200 A.D.
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Hu with Wolf of Heaven and Archer. Grey earthenware with painted decoration. China, Han Dynasty (Western Han Period), probably from area near Luoyang, Henan Province, ca. 100 B.C.
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"Men conversing." Painted tomb tiles, probably from north China. China, Eastern Han period, ca. A.D. 50-100.
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The Ancient Sovereigns, Scenes from History, and the Queen Mother of the West. West Wall. Chamber #3, The Wu Liang Shrine. Shandong Province. 147, Eastern Han Period.
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Gu Kaizhi (ca 344-406), "Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court." A) Lady Ban's Refusal to Ride in the Imperial Palanquin." Ink and colors on silk. China, Six Dynasties Period, ca. A.D. 400.
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Gu Kaizhi (ca 344-406), "Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court." B) "The Rejection" ("No one can endlessly please; affection can not be for one alone"). Ink and colors on silk. China, Six Dynasties Period, ca. A.D. 400.
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 "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove." Rubbing from tomb bricks, suburbs of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. China, Six Dynasties Period ca. A.D. 450.
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 Detail of #5, Wang Rong with Backscratcher.
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Flying Horse of the North. North quadrant of a tomb ceiling. Tomb at Jiuquan, Gansu Province. 4th century, Six Dynasties Period.


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Detail of "Flying Horse to the North"
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Great seal script writing from a Zhou ritual bronze. China, Western Zhou period, 11th century B.C.
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Rubbing of the Stone Drums. Transition between Great and Lesser seal script writing. From Fengxiang, Shaanxi Province. China, Eastern Zhou period. Date is contested; likely to be 7th-6th centuries B.C.
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The Li Qi stele. Example of clerical style calligraphy. Rubbing from a stone engraving. China, Eastern Han period, A.D. 156.
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Wang Xizhi, Good Harvest. Example of semi-cursive script calligraphy. Ink on paper. Ca. 350, Jin dynasty.
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Ouyang Xun, The Sweet Spring at the Jiucheng Palace. Example of standard script calligraphy. Rubbing from a stone stele. 632, Tang Dynasty.
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Hunping funerary urn. Ca. 250-300, Jin Dynasty. Earthenware with green glaze. From the Yangzi River basin area, Zhejiang Province.
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Seated Buddha. Cave 20, Yun'gang, Shanxi Province. Sandstone. China, ca. 460-70, Northern Wei period.
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Detail of Buddha. Cave 20, Yun'gang.
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Standing Maitreya Buddha (Buddha of the Future). Gilt bronze. China, ca. A.D. 450, Northern Wei period.
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Standing Maitreya Buddha Shrine. Gilt bronze. China, A.D. 524, Northern Wei period.
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Detail of Standing Maitreya Buddha Shrine
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Sakyamuni Buddha. 550-570 CE, Northern Qi Dynasty. Limestone with polychrome. From the site of the Longxing Temple, Qingzhou, Shandong Province.
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Fengxian Temple at Longmen. Ca. 675, Tang Dynasty. Henan Province.
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Detail of the Vairocana (Great) Buddha at Fengxian Temple. Ca. 675, Tang Dynasty. Longmen, Henan.
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Heavenly King and Guardian. Ca. 675, Tang dynasty. Fengxian Temple at Longmen, Henan Province.
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Seated Buddha. Ca. 715, Tang Dynasty. From Cave #21, Tianlongshan, Shanxi Province.
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Yan Liben, attributed, Thirteen Emperors (detail). 7th Century, Tang Dynasty. Handscroll, ink and colors on silk.
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Tomb Guardian. Earthenware with tri-color glaze. Ca. 720-740, Tang Dynasty.
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Huaisu, Self-Statement (section). Dated 777, Tang Dynasty. Handscroll, ink on paper. Example of "wild cursive" script.
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Detail of Huaisu, Self-Statement (section).
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Anonymous, Deva King. From a sutra case found at the Ruiguangsi (Temple of Auspicious Aura), Suzhou, ca. 1013, Song dynasty. Ink and colors on wood.
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Detail of Anonymous, Deva King.
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