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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: ARH 3057 or instructor permission. This course covers the development of art from 1880 to 1940. Topics of discussion include abstraction, Symbolism, Surrealism, as well as the relationship between the techniques and forms of abstract representation and contemporary philosophical, social, scientific, and political events. The writing of artists and critics provides the basis for this inquiry.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an introduction to the visual culture of South and Southeast Asia with an emphasis on the Indian Subcontinent. The course examines the role that artistic production has played in the transmission of religious beliefs and the development of cultural systems from the Indus Valley to the present day. Students will be encouraged to explore the form and functions of art in a variety of media, including but not limited to architecture, urban form, sculpture, painting, and performance.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the visual arts of China, covering the Neolithic to the modern period. The framework for the course is both chronological and thematic, with special emphasis on how the Chinese have viewed themselves and the world in different periods, and how this has been expressed in their arts. Topics include ancient China, the introduction of Buddhism, aesthetic theory and painting, and masters of landscape.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the visual arts of Japan, covering the ancient to the modern period. The framework for the course is both chronological and thematic, with particular focus on the relationship between culture and the visual arts. Among the topics covered are ancient Japan, Japanese aesthetics, Buddhist art, the rise of the samurai, garden architecture and tea ceremony, castle decoration, and the world of ukiyo-e.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the art and architecture of the Islamic world from its early days in the mid-7th century to the present day. While the concept "Islamic world" is both vague and vast, stretching from Spain to Indonesia and beyond, the course will focus on several geographic areas to explore the visual culture produced by Muslims.
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3.00 Credits
This course discusses, analyzes and examines the arts of people from Oceania, Africa, and Native America. It provides students with a valid framework for understanding the complexities involved with these art forms from inside and outside specific social and cultural contexts.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: ARH 3057 or instructor permission. What is "American" about our country and its art? Developing a national identity in culture was a central concern during this period. Reflecting regional and multicultural responses to this and other questions of subjectivity and modernity, this course surveys painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, and material culture from 1876 to the 1950s.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: ARH 3057 or instructor permission. From European images of "discovery" to conceptions of national culture presented to visitors at the Philadelphia Centennial, this course examines an emerging national identity as reflected and developed in the arts and material culture from the Colonial period to 1876. Course content is multicultural and includes discussions of women's contributions.
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3.00 Credits
Topics discussed include contemporary artistic practices and the relationship between "modernism" and "postmodernism".
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3.00 Credits
to the Spanish conquest of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. Focus is placed on how changes in visual culture reflect larger religious and political transformations.
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