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4.00 Credits
A course primarily based on student discussion, reading, argumentation, and presentation. Topics will vary and might include: Rivalry in the Renaissance: Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo; Bernini and the Visual Arts; Symbolism and the 1890s; Figurative Art of the 1940s-1980s. The colloquium will introduce students to the significant research and readings for particular topics. Students will become familiar with the variety of sources available and learn to assess and utilize them in a critical fashion. When necessary and with the permission of the instructor,this course may be taken for research seminar credit. Course may be repeated. Offered every other year.
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4.00 - 8.00 Credits
A survey of art from 1945 to the present for which, one to two days each week (depending on credit hours), students travel to New York City to view museum and gallery exhibitions, c/s,/s, visit artists' studios and meet other professionals in the field. These visits are contextualized through a weekly seminar on campus focusing on this vibrant period, which witnessed a radical expansion in the definition of artistic practice and the art object, and the emergence of the concept of "postmodernism" - a direct challenge to the "modernist" approach to art making that reigned at mid-century in the United States and Europe. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Offered fall semester.
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4.00 Credits
Topics vary. Reading and discussion of primary texts and scholarship pertinent to a special topic, such as Michelangelo, decorative ensembles of the 16th and 17th centuries, Symbolism and the 1890s, and Abstract Art. When possible, seminar topics are linked to a special exhibition on view in New York City or involve preparation of an exhibit in the Korn Gallery. Seminars include advanced historiography and original research for a scholarly project. Offered every other year.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Under special circumstances, an advanced student majoring in Art History may plan, in conference with the instructor and with approval of the department, a closely supervised independent project in art criticism, museology, or art history, not otherwise provided in the courses of instruction. Written proposal and paper required. Amount of credit established at time of registration. Course may be repeated. Signature of instructor required for registration. Offered annually.
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4.00 Credits
This course focuses on the development and character of indigenous cultures of Latin America before the arrival of Europeans. Themes of power, economy, religion, ritual, and symbolism that uniquely characterize Latin American native societies are examined primarily through art, architecture and material culture. The course follows a topical and comparative approach drawing on data from archaeology, art history, ethnography and ethnohistory. Prerequisite: ANTH 3, 4 or permission of the instructor. Check ANTH listings for up-to-date offering times. Same as: ANTH 30. Same as: ANTH 30.
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4.00 Credits
The ancient arts of the Mediterranean world and the medieval arts of Western Europe are explored. Monuments such as the Egyptian pyramids, the Pantheon and Hagia Sophia as well as the decorative arts are examined as reflections of the religious and cultural climate in which they were created. Offered fall semester.
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4.00 Credits
A study of a variety of questions centered upon philosophical aspects of art. Of primary concern are the notions of beauty, formalism, emotivism, criticism, expression, creation, and evaluation. Focuses on specific works of art as they serve to illuminate philosophical concerns. Check PHIL listings for up-to-date offering times. Same as: PHIL 134.
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4.00 Credits
This course provides a loosely chronological overview of diverse photographic production beginning with early optical devices such as the camera obscura and continuing to contemporary digital practices. Students will become familiar with various photographic processes and techniques (daguerreotypes, albumen prints, platinum prints, pinhole photography, color, and others); styles and movements (f64, street photography, post-modernism, and others); individual practitioners; and theories of photography proposed by Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes, susan sontag, and others. We will also explore how and why the history of photography has been, only recently, integrated into the larger history of art by studying the broad, societal, and technological roles of photography. Offering to be determined.
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4.00 Credits
Visual arts and architecture from the early Renaissance to the present day are discussed in connection with the current religious, social, and political issues. Key art historical movements such as the High Renaissance, Italian Baroque, Romanticism, Impressionism, and Modernism are viewed in terms of the changing role of artists, their context and their artistic goals. Offered spring semester.
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4.00 Credits
A survey of the arts and cultures of Africa and Afro-American peoples. Focuses on the interrelationships of artistic expression and other aspects of culture. Prerequisite: ANTH 4 or permission of instructor. Check ANTH listings for up-to-date offering times. Same as: ANTH 51.
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