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Arts and Ideas 310: The Art of Being an Outsider in Japan

Instructor: Christopher Daniels

E-mail: cdaniels@unca.edu

 

Information: This class is intended to introduce, in various media forms, how some Japanese artists in the last one hundred and fifty years have employed the outsider as a theme in their works to express their struggle with the duty to oneself vs. the duty to one's group.

 

Course Materials:

 

Syllabus 

 

DFW Commencement speech

 

*****First Day*****

 

Saint Young Men Download

 

Arts 310 Underground Music CD


Student Project Pages

 

Students in Arts and Ideas 310 complete various projects throughout the semester.  Below is a list of links to different assignments throught the semester.  Click through to see projects that students have already completed!

 

 

 

 

First Project

Second Project

Third Project

 

Rubric 

 

 

 


 

Units

 

The class covers a lot of ground over the course of the semester, but here is a table of contents

 

 

Background

History  


 

Kurosawa and Yojimbo

 

Modern Japan

 
 

Wabi Sabi

 

Post WWII

Way, Way, Way

Underground Music

 

The Meiji Era

 

Manga

 

Anime

Kokoro

 

Avant-Garde Theater

Superflat

 

Meiji Era to WWII

 

Haruki Murakami

The Point 

 

Roland Barthes and The Empire of Signs

 

Kobo Abe and The Woman in the Dunes

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

Visual Art by Students

 

Students are encouraged/required to make at least one artwork based on what they've seen in the course of the semester.  Click through to see our growing collection.

 

 

Creative Writing by Students

 

 

Essays by Students

 

 

 

 

 

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