This course will provide a broad introduction to the art and architecture of India, Central Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia. Themes of special importance will be the relation between art and religion, between art and royal patronage, and between indigenous styles and foreign forms and ideas. Art works from a range of religious and philosophical orientations - autochthonous, Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Confucian, Daoist, Islamic and Christian - will be studied.

2,000 word tutorial presentation (50%), short paper and brief oral presentation (800 words) (25%) and visual test (25%).

Introduction to Art History ARTH1002 and Introduction to Modern Art ARTH1003 or permission of the Coordinator.

* Blurton, T R, Hindu Art, British Museum, London, 1992
* Fisher, R, Buddhist Art and Architecture, Thames and Hudson, London, 1993
* Brend, B, Islamic Art, British Museum Press, London, 1994