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Rome: Glorious and Notorious (From Rome to Venice) Enrollment by application only. This on-site course provides students with a profound educational experience, placing them in a long tradition of artist-travelers and nascent scholars living and working in the Eternal City and the Serene Republic. Immersed in the culture of ancient and postimperial Rome, students examine at first-hand a breathtaking variety of monuments and works of art, including many not generally accessible to the public. The course then moves to Venice, where the legacy of Rome, transformed as the Byzantine Empire, gave rise to another great culture, and also established, in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a "rival Renaissance," underthe auspices of its myriad artists and architects. 3 credits Prerequisites: HART100 Type: TRAVEL Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment:
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Team taught course Fashion/ Art History. 3 credits Prerequisites: HART100 Type: lecture/seminar(3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: all college elective
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Selected topics in the relationship between political power and built form in the West, from ancient Greece to the present. Students investigate the influence of political agendas on building typology and style, and the use of architecture as political propaganda. Topics include the architecture of imperialism, state-subsidized housing, and the politics of urban planning. 3 credits Prerequisites: HART100 Type: lecture/seminar(3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: all college elective
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An opportunity for seniors with a solid background in 200- and 300- level art history courses to research a topic of their choosing. The course requires eight meetings during the semester with the supervising instructor and a final written report of the research undertaken. 3 credits Prerequisites: HART100 Type: Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment:
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An introduction to applied archaeology as a preparation for participation in an archeological excavation. Investigation of archeological theory including history, purposes, goals, and ethics of excavation. Archaeological practice studied through actual experience with basic skills, including supervising a trench, developing excavation skills, maintaining a field notebook, making site plans, entering field data in a computerized data base, processing and drawing pottery, cataloging and drawing small finds, and preparing a publishable field report. This course is a prerequisite for participation in MassArt's excavation in Syria. 3 credits Prerequisites: HART100 Type: lecture/seminar(3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: all college elective
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An in-depth look at the medieval Gothic architecture of Europe, focusing on selected cathedrals from the earliest examples around 12th-century Paris to the fanciful stonework and towering spires of 15th-century England and Central Europe. Following an overview of the period and its monuments, students will undertake individual research projects with the professor's guidance, and will share their progress and conclusions with one another. The course is designed to provide students with tools for professional and/or graduate work in the field of art history. Preference will be given to art history majors. 3 credits Prerequisites: HART100 Type: lecture/seminar(3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: all college elective Friday, March 13, 2009 Page C7 of 9
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This course will consider the large-scale sculpture, wall painting, and stained glass created for medieval architectural settings in Europe between about 1100 and 1400. The course will begin with an overview of materials and techniques and of common iconographic themes such as the Last Judgment, the passage of time, beasts and gargoyles, Biblical interpretation, and the Life of Christ. The ways in which these images were deployed in architectural settings, the effect of that architecture on one's ability or inability to see images, and the meanings that might be read into the interaction of image and space will be ongoing themes in the course. Students will explore different methodologies that art historians have used to interpret medieval art in professional journals and recent books, and will produce a major research paper with the guidance of the instructor. 3 credits Prerequisites: HART100 Type: lecture/seminar (3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment:
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3 credits Prerequisites: HART100 Type: lecture/seminar(3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: all college elective
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The 1521 Spanish conquest of the Aztec of Mexico forged a new world from a monumental collision of religions, philosophies and visual cultures. Through critical reading, research and oral and written presentation of 10-12 page papers, students in this seminar explore the power and paradoxes of Aztec civilization before and in the wake of conquest through examination of Aztec art and documentary sources including pictorial manuscripts and codices, sculpture, painting and architecture. Students also analyze firsthand accounts, memoirs and philosophical treatises recording Spanish conquistadors' and clergies' ambivalent responses to Aztec culture, to its sophistication and to its seeming barbarity. The influence of Aztec art on modernism in Mexico, North America and Europe also will be a focus of student discussion and research. 3 credits HART100; Art of Mesoamerica and/or Maya Art &Architecture (recommended, not required) Prerequisites: Type: lecture/seminar(3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: all college elective
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In Chinese conception, calligraphy and painting are closely related to poetry. Many literati engage in two or all three of these arts. Theories of calligraphy and painting developed along parallel lines with those of poetry. Treatises on these arts use similar or even identical concepts, terms, and images that are closely related to Chinese concepts on Nature. In 687, Sun Qianli described different scripts of calligraphy are "sometimes heavy like threatening clouds and sometimes light like cicada wings; when the brush moves, water flows from a spring, and when the brush stops, a mountain stands firm." Zhao Mengfu (1254 - 1322) claimed that when he paints, "Rocks like Flying White; tree like the Great Seal script; the sketching of bamboos should include the Eight Strokes of calligraphic technique." 3 credits This seminar focuses on the sophisticated written literature and the canonical works of Chinese calligraphy and literati painting. Students will read and discuss important ancient Chinese treatises (in English translation), perform book review on modern scholarships on Chinese calligraphy and painting, and write individual research papers (10 - 12 pages) and present their papers to the class. This course also includes a hands-on Chinese calligraphy and ink-monochrome painting workshop. Prerequisites: HART100 Type: lecture/seminar(3hrs) Culturally Diverse Content Enrollment: all college elective
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