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

Download Arts 310 CD here: 

Download Superflat Manifesto here:

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

*Japan Movie Project! (new)*

• Every other Tuesday in the Whitman Room, a different Japanese film!

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!

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