Louise Yuhas,   Professor, Department of Art History and Visual Arts Occidental College 1600 Campus Road Los Angeles, California  90041 phone  (323) 259-2748 fax       (323) 259-2930 email   yuhas@oxy.edu

Professor Yuhas joined the Occidental faculty in 1977.  She received her B.A. in French Language and Literature at Brown University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Michigan.  While researching her doctoral dissertation on the landscape paintings of Lu Zhi (1496-1576), Yuhas lived in Taiwan and worked as a translator for the Painting and Calligraphy Department of the National Palace Museum in 1972-1975. She has traveled extensively in Asia and has visited the People's Republic of China on numerous occasions, and in the summer of 1998 participated in an international research seminar at Dunhuang, an oasys on the Silk Route and location of over five hundred Buddhist cave temples. Prof. Yuhas directed Occidental's general education program, or Core, from 1990-1998 and  served as Associate Dean of the Faculty from 1993-1998.

Among the courses Prof. Yuhas teaches at Occidental are:

	ArtH160: INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN ART: Selected periods and monuments of Asian art from India, China, and Japan, and an introduction to the methods of art-historical analysis. Particular emphasis will be placed on the understanding of works of art in their original religious, intellectual, political, and social contexts, with particular attention to the ways each developed characteristics appropriate to these contexts. Among the topics to be explored are ritual arts, Buddhist art (painting, sculpture, and architecture), secular painting, and garden architecture.
	ArtH260. BUDDHIST ART IN ASIA. A comparative study of Buddhist painting, sculpture, and architecture as it originated in India and spread on the one hand to South and Southeast Asia, and on the other hand across Central Asia to China, Korea, and Japan. Particular attention will be given to the ways in which the Buddhist tradition and its arts were transformed in each of the "host" countries.
	ArtH266. THE ARTS OF JAPAN. An introduction to Japanese painting, sculpture, and architecture from ancient time through the Meiji Restoration (1912). Emphasis will be placed on the formation of an indigenous artistic tradition and its transformation under Chinese influence. The arts produced for patrons in Shinto, Buddhist, zen, courtly, and samurai contexts will be examined. Field trips to the L.A. County Museum of Art and other local resources.
	ArtH362. ART IN EARLY CHINA. Chinese art and archaeology from the neolithic period through the Tang Dynasty. Readings in historical, literary, and religio-philosophical texts will contextualize the study of the formative period of Chinese art history. We will trace the emergence, florescence, and decline of ritual art in ancient China; the birth and ascent to dominance of the Confucian scholar-elite as consumers (and ultimately producers) of art; and the impact of the introduction of Buddhism on the history of Chinese art. Archaeological discoveries continue to deepen our understanding of ancient China, and we will examine the most important excavations of the past 30 years.
	ArtH364. ART IN LATER CHINA. Chinese art of the last millennium. Primary attention will be placed to the arts of painting, calligraphy, and architecture (palaces and gardens), seen in the context of patronage groups and other intellectual, social, and political factors. The role of the scholar-gentry class in the consumption and production of art is particularly important, but we will also examine the impacts of the imperial court, the religious establishment (Chan or Zen Buddhist), and the merchant class on the art of imperial China. The course will conclude with a consideration of art in contemporary China and its relationship to pre-revolutionary Chinese traditions.
	ArtH368. JAPANESE PAINTING. A survey of Japanese painting with emphasis on the Heian through Tokugawa periods (10th­19th centuries). The transformative influences of Chinese culture and changing patronage groups (from courtly to zen/samurai to the merchant class) will inform our analysis of monochrome ink scrolls, gold-leaf screens, and ukiyo-e woodblock prints. Where possible, we will consider the works in the architectural settings for which they were intended. Field trips to the L.A. County Museum of Art and other collections will be arranged.

ArtH390. SEMINAR IN ASIAN ART. Intensive study of a particular period, theme, or other aspect of Asian art history. The topic changes from year to year. Prerequisite: Art History or Asian Studies major, or permission of instructor.