A non-accredited History and Heritage course.

Course Description

Aside from the more-celebrated Ming vases and Terracotta Army, a little-known field of Chinese art is ‘export art’, produced by Chinese artists to provide visual mementos of China before the invention of cameras. Subject matter included places, personalities, ordinary folk, commerce, and portraits of Westerners themselves. This course will study early Anglo-Chinese relations through these atmospheric artworks, from early contacts to the nineteenth Century, and consider the mysterious disappearance of the most famous collection of export art, the Chater Collection.

Tutor: Martin Fecitt BA MA PGCE

 

Term: Summer

Day: Saturday

Start Date: 03 June 2023

Time: 10am-4.30pm

No. of weeks: 1

Full fee: £49

Location: University of York Campus, Classroom-based