Viz

ARTH 320: Japanese Theater: Visualizing Narrative Across Media

Instructor: Katie Ryor
Art History
Winter 2011
Course Description
This course will address the ways various forms of theater in Japan have responded to changing social and political forces over their histories. It will also interrogate the intersections, as well as crucial differences, between literary drama, performance, and representation in print media. Students will read a number of Kabuki and Noh plays, view films of performances of these plays, study illustrated books that preserve visual and textual records of performances, examine woodblock prints of actors in their roles from the eighteenth through twentieth centuries, and look at the development of costumes and masks.

Introduction

As a group curatorial exercise, the class created exhibitions in a virtual model of the Carleton Art Gallery, using Google SketchUp.

Class Models

Click here to see the virtual models created by students in Professor Ryor's class.