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4.00 Credits
This is the same course as Architectural Studies 493C, 494C. Refer to the Architectural Studies listing for a course description. A. Van Slyck
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces and interprets Chinese cinema by focusing on three themes: "the color of sex, violence and revolution (Red Series);""the symbol of women (Water Series);" and "the dream of a strong Chin(Modernity Series)." Varying methods of cinematic analysis will be introduced with case studies. The goal is to explore the issues of gender, politics and visuality in Chinese film and society. This is the same course as Film Studies 493F, 494F. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Q. Ning
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4.00 Credits
Examines major 20th-century archaeological finds along the Silk Road; socio-political and cultural implications of archaeology in a modern context; exchange of merchandise and ideas between Chang'an and Rome in the first millennium; and issues of colonialism, nationalism, and cultural politics involved in the transfer of artifacts from their original locations to the home countries of archaeologists. This is the same course as East Asian Studies 493G, 494G. Q. Ning
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4.00 Credits
This is the same course as Architectural Studies 493H, 494H. Refer to the Architectural Studies listing for a course description.
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4.00 Credits
Drawing on classic and contemporary writings in art history, anthropology, cultural studies, and the philosophy of aesthetics, this seminar considers the notion of "authenticity." Topics to be considered include: the invention of tradition;imitations and simulacra; hybridity and the construction of the canon; the aesthetic status of fakes and forgeries; the role of authenticity in tourism and tourist art; and the art market and connoisseurship. This is the same course as Anthropology 403. Prerequisite: One course in Art History or Anthropology. Open to juniors and seniors, with preference given to Art History and Anthropology majors. C. Steiner
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4.00 Credits
Exploration of issues of gender in early modern European art, literature, and society from the late middle ages to the 17th century. Topics include courtly love vs. church culture, the humanist family and the gendered burgher republic, homoeroticism, mythological and historical rape, gendered landscape, Neoplatonism, courtesans and prostitution, gender in the Reformation, witches and other "powerful women",mercantilism and gender, the rise of pornography, the gender of art, music, and cultural leisure, Counter-Reformation Catholicism, and the gendering of the absolutist state. Extensive readings in primary sources. Prerequisite: Course 122. R. Baldwin
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4.00 Credits
The changing urban layout of Rome in the course of two millennia from the city's legendary founding in the 8th century BCE through the transfer of the papacy to France in 1309. Individual buildings and construction campaigns and broader phases of urban growth will be placed in their political, ideological, social and art-historical contexts. J. Alchermes
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4.00 Credits
Successive packing and repackaging of America's colonial past from 1850 to the present with attention to the various settings (international expositions, open-air museums, institutional buildings, domestic architecture) in which architects, builders, and their clients created mythical pasts to fit present needs. A. Van Slyck
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4.00 Credits
An exploratory seminar to consider art and artists whose work typically falls outside the canons of art history. We will consider, for example, the art of the asylum and the insane; self-taught, folk or na?e artists; visionary artists and the art of personal symbolism and private shrines; lawn art and kitsch; offbeat museums as installation art; and many other forms of unusual and "obsessive" visual culture . C. Steiner
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4.00 Credits
This is the same course as Architectural Studies 493Z, 494Z. Refer to Architectural Studies listing for a course description.
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