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Asian Studies, SRE A consideration, through art, of the impacts Eastern and Western cultures have had on one another. Broad topics for discussion include the art of Buddhism and the Silk Road; medieval European borrowings from the East; travelers East and West; Arabs as transmitters of Asian technologies; concepts of heaven and hell; Western missionaries and the introduction of Western culture in India, China, and Japan; chinoiserie in European architecture, gardening, and decor; and japonisme? ?he influence of the Asian aesthetic on modern art movements.
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4.00 Credits
Asian Studies Beginning with the most ancient urban civilization, dating to the prehistoric period, the flowering and development of Indian philosophical and religious thought is traced through its expression in the arts, including the culture's unique exploitation of the sensuous as a metaphor for divinity. The evolution of India's iconic tradition is studied, as is the development of religious architectural forms, narrative painting, and sculpture.
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4.00 Credits
This course traces the transformation of early collecting and display practices into the first modern "survey" museum and considers theemergence of alternatives to this model. Particular attention is given to critiques of the museum (including critiques of exclusivity and cultural insensitivity), as well as to problems in contemporary museum practice (such as contested provenance and the issue of restitution). Other topics include the museum as memory and memorial; the role played by the museum in the wake of New World discovery and European colonization; collections as sites for producing knowledge; artists' intervention in the museum; the virtual collection; the gallery and the museum; and the logic and politics of display.
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4.00 Credits
Photography This seminar examines the West's historical ambivalence toward the body and its representation, as expressed in art of the modern period (1780-2000). Beginning with the neoclassical heroic nude, the course examines depictions of the body that reflect the preoccupations and obsessions of their cultural moments. Topics may include Manet's Olympia, pornography and early photography, physical abjection in symbolism and German expressionism, the "oriental"body in 19th-century art, body art of the 1960s and 1970s, and obsessive treatments of the body by contemporary photographers.
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4.00 Credits
ICS, Medieval Studies Through a study of archaeological remains, myths and sagas, and non-narrative art, this course explores the origin and identity of the Celts, the rich variety of their material way of life, their institutions, and their attitudes toward the supernatural. The course begins with the Continental Celts, who left their treasures throughout Iron Age Europe. Students become familiar with chariot graves and their princely goods; sanctuaries devoted to the "cult of the head"; and swords, helmets, cauldrons, torques, and bracelets-all decorated with the swirling and intricate patters of the Celtic imagination. Also studied are the migration of the Celts to Ireland and Britain, prehistoric passage graves, Irish gold ornaments, dwellings, fortifications, sacred sites, and mysterious stones.
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4.00 Credits
ICS, Medieval Studies This seminar explores the character and widespread diffusion of the "animal style"-nonfigural, essentially abstract, and highly decorative art displaying a genius for pattern and fantasy. It reviews the art of the Scythians and Sarmatians, who roamed the steppes of Central Eurasia;manifestations of this style in the La Tène civilization and among Germanic tribes; and the treasures of Celtic Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England (among them, the magnificent Sutton Hoo ship burial). Attention is given to the art of the Vikings, other aspects of their culture, and Viking influence in areas as widespread as Ireland and Russia. The course concludes with an investigation of the influence of the animal style on the art of Romanesque Europe.
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4.00 Credits
French Studies, Medieval Studies This examination of the "renaissance of the 12th century" follows the major pilgrimage routes through France to the famous shrine of Santiago de Compostela in Spain. An analysis of the great sculptured portals of Burgundy, Provence, Limousin, Périgord, Languedoc, and western France concludes with the royal portals at Saint-Denis and Chartres. Innovations in sculpture and architecture are studied within the contexts of religious and social change, the cult of relics, heresy, troubadour poetry, early drama, and the Crusades.
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4.00 Credits
LAIS, Medieval Studies A study of the art and architecture of the Iberian peninsula, beginning with a brief look at the Celtiberian culture and the colonial activities of the Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans. The major focus, however, is on the following areas: Visigothic art; Al-Andalus, the Islamic art of Spain; Asturian and Mozarabic art; and Romanesque art of the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela. Students investigate the complex patterns of exchange, appropriation, assimilation, and tension among the Islamic, Judaic, and Christian traditions, and they attempt to assess the effects of this cross-fertilization of cultures on the visual arts.
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4.00 Credits
Human Rights The unique relationship between war and architecture is based on a shared preoccupation with the idea of community. Whereas architecture (and/or urbanism) is the generator of community, war constitutes the systematic destruction of societies and their populations. This seminar focuses on the second half of the 20th century and the ways in which architecture and urbanism have been affected, transformed, destroyed, and rebuilt throughout periods of conflict. Readings include texts by Manuel De Landa and Paul Virilio, among others. Case studies examined include the totalitarian regimes of the late 1930s and 1940s, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, various Balkan crises, and 9/11 and the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site. Preference is given to students with a background in modern architectural history.
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4.00 Credits
Italian Studies An examination of the ideas that inspired sculptors and the patrons who footed the bills; the relationship between artists, poets, and philosophers of the Renaissance; and the degree of influence exerted by patrons and their associates on the selection of content and the establishment of stylistic trends. Topics include the materials and forms of sculpture, the changing social position of the artist, the Neoplatonic movement in Florence, and Renaissance theories of love. The major sculptors of the Renaissance are studied, with an emphasis on Donatello, Ghiberti, Michelangelo, and Jacopo della Quercia.
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