write a 3-4-page summary in which you identify what you think are important recu

write a 3-4-page summary in which you identify what you think are important recurring themes within the presentations of each era. Your summaries should demonstrate that you have consistently been paying attention in class, but they do not necessarily need to integrate everything we cover. In fact, I prefer that they not attempt to replicate the lectures in abbreviated form, but rather that they reveal that you have in some way processed the material in a way that enable you to make meaningful selections about what you think are the big ideas that give shape to the individual works (I would aim for about 3-5 of these big ideas). Your summaries need to include several references (at least six) to specific works shown in class, and they will also need to incorporate discussion of at least three of the assigned readings (that effectively demonstrate that you have read them). It will also be very important to make connections between the works and the readings, particularly in instances in which the readings are not necessarily strictly art-object focused Unit II: Medieval Art and Culture Sept. 27 – Jain and Hindu iconography- “The Cosmic Vision,” from Bhagavad Gita: A New Translation, Three Rivers Press, 2000. Oct. 2 – Hindu iconography continued- Eck, “The Image of God” in Darśan: Seeing the Divine Image in India, Columbia, 1998. Oct. 4 – Painting, poetry, and narrative- Murasaki Shikibu The Tale of Genji (excerpt), Xie He and selected poems of Li Bai Oct. 9 – Neo-Confucianism and landscape painting- Joan Kee, “The Measure of the World: Scenes from a Journey to Kaeso ̆ng, Art History, 2015 Oct. 11 – Zen Buddhism- Rumiko Handa, “Sen no Rikyū and the Japanese Way of Tea: Ethics and Aesthetics of the Everyday,” Interiors 4:3, 2013. Oct. 18 Mughal rule; Sikhism in India-Lisa Balabanlilar, “The Emperor Jahangir and the Pursuit of Pleasure,” JRAS 3:19:2, 2000.