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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course examines representations of warfare. The goal is not to survey the actual histories of conflicts, but to understand how political and cultural ideologies are demonstrated by images made either as propaganda for, or commemoration of A war. Each case study illuminates the key art historical issues of the period evident in the images.
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3 credits This course is as much about the cultural politics surrounding African art as it is about the art itself. With particular emphasis on colonialism as A vital agent of change, students first learn how the early modernist view of African objects as works of art paradoxically fostered A new myth of primitivism. The lingering hold of this fantasy about the Other on Western imagination today is also examined.A variety of cultural representations from postcolonial Africa are explored in the context of "tradition" and "modernity.Recommended Prerequisites: The Arts of Africa, IAHIS 3450 and Art Since 1945
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3 credits This course begins from the premise that all images are mediated by pre-existing images. Through a wide variety of case studies, ranging from Velazquez' "Las Meninas" to MAMagazine, it examines how artists have confronted the question of cross-references of visual images in different eras; how they have produced new fictions by exploiting illusions of mirrors, imaging themselves, making statements about the enterprise of art making, and quoting other images quite openly. Prerequisites: IAHIS 1200 and 1210 or consent of instructor.
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3 credits This course combines the study of the visual arts with the ethical, political and religious ideas and beliefs that shaped the art and culture of Japan.
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3 credits The objective of the course is to survey and analyze the changing relationships between contemporary art and popular culture. Underlying the course are three themes: the relationship and blurring of boundaries between art and popular culture, the relationship of art and history, and postmodern identity. Key topics and figures include Kitsch and Art, Joseph Cornell, Walter Benjamin, Andy Warhol, the Beatles, Bill Viola and Dr. Seuss. Prerequisites: IAHIS 1100 and 1110, or IAHIS 1200 and 1210, or consent of instructor
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3 credits This course explores the origins of the postmodern in philosophy, art, music and popular culture. Focusing on contemporary visual arts, writing, performing arts and advertising, several defining characteristics of the postmodern are identified. We also explore the critical terms in which this art has been represented. Prerequisites:
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3 credits This course focuses on the changes that have occurred in how we think about and respond to new technological transformations, such as digital and computer technology and Internet communications. We consider the ways in which artists have appropriated these technologies to create new art forms, e.g. cyberpunk and science fiction, in visual and literary art forms. The goal of the course is to inform student understanding of these new art forms, and to encourage student experimentation. Prerequisites: IAHIS 1200, IAHIS 1210
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3 credits This course introduces students to the main currents of contemporary critical theory, including phenomenology, post-structuralism and deconstruction. Discussion focuses on artists working in mediums of painting, installation art, performance art, new media, cinema and poetry. Readings offered in the course help students to become active as they locate themselves in analysis and critical response. Pre-requisites: IAHIS 1100 and 1110, or IAHIS 1200 and 1210, or consent of instructor. Required for Art History Minor.
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3 credits This course focuses on the interrelationship between art and society. Accordingly, students examine the role of visual culture and artistic practice within the context of everyday life. To accomplish this task, we address a wide range of issues relating to the many connections between art and society. To help tackle these issues, we read essays by artists, critics, and theoreticians who have been instrumental in defining our understanding of visual culture over the past three decades. Prerequisites: IAHIS 1200 and 1210, plus one other advanced elective (3000 or above).
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course includes drawing the dynamic structure of human and animal figures, and other lively objects, from the initial quick execution in sequential key poses through A series of revisions. Characters are designed in precisely drawn model sheets, and figures and backgrounds are composed in meaningful, dynamic cinematic sequences, expressed in storyboards, from rough to polished. Prerequisite: IANIM 2480.
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