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Course Criteria
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1.25 Credits
The construction and images, and the liturgical, political, and social functions of the principal Japanese temples surviving from the formative period of Japanese history, from approximately 500 to 1100 C.E. These temples are all prime historical and social sites in modern Japan. Most of them are mainly Buddhist, but the religious context of the course will be the general one of Japan during this period, including Shinto. Enrollment limited to 35. (General Education Code(s): A.) The Staff
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1.25 Credits
Neolithic to the first extended age of imperial China (the Han Dynasty, 206 B.C.-220 A.D.). Themes, such as ritual and technology in the language of form, within a cultural and historical framework concluding in the age when representation of everyday life first became prominent. (General Education Code(s): A.) The Staff
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1.25 Credits
The arts of China, from the second century A.D. to the 20th century. Architecture, sculpture, ceramics, calligraphy, and painting, setting these in contexts of social structure, political, and cultural values. Enrollment limited to 45. (General Education Code(s): A, E.) The Staff
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1.25 Credits
Chinese art during the socially and politically tumultuous 20th century, a period when artists were challenged by an increased awareness of world art and the need to adapt to politically-motivated artistic constraints. General narrative history, leading artists, decisive moments, and poignant questions. (General Education Code(s): A, E.) The Staff
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1.25 Credits
Examination of practitioners, projects, issues, and theories in contemporary architecture circa 1968 to the present. Topics include the architecture of aftermath, the ethics of memory and memorialization, the corporatization of museums, the role of criticism and exhibitions, and the cult of the brand-name architect. (Formerly Contemporary Architecture, 1968-Present) ( General Education Code(s): A.) The Staff
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1.25 Credits
Introduction to American visual arts: architecture, painting, photography, sculpture, and performance art, from the 19th through the 21st century. Explore social and political meanings of art and what art reveals about our nation's values and beliefs, in particular, gender and race. (General Education Code(s): A.) M. Berger
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1.25 Credits
An introductory examination of the writing about the issue of "medium" and media theory in visual culture. Technologies, discourses, and practices from all periods that use the comparison of media as a major approach to understanding the problems of the visual are highlighted. New media, film, television, video, traditional arts are also treated. (General Education Code(s): A.) The Staff, C. Soussloff
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1.25 Credits
Expressionism, agitprop, the Bauhaus, New Objectivity, attacks on modernism, National Socialist realism. Painting, sculpture, graphic art, and some architecture and film, studied in the context of political events from the eve of World War I to the end of World War II. (General Education Code(s): A.) D. Hunter
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3.00 Credits
Critical reading of modernism as a high art tradition. Emphasis on context: culture of capitalism, shift in power from Europe to the U.S., role of gender and race, and the aesthetic as either apolitical refuge or site of disruption and critique. Third in a sequence of three courses on French art and its historical context; see courses 176 and 177. (General Education Code(s): A.) D. Hunter, M. Berger
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1.25 Credits
Examines the rise of international modernism in the 20th Century and the complex political/social motivations behind its ideologies/movements. Topics include the legacy of the Beaux-Arts tradition, Expressionism, Constructivism, the primacy of Le Corbusier, Weimar Germany, Fascist architecture, Corporate Modernism, Socialist Realism, Post-Modernism, among others. (General Education Code(s): A.) The Staff
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