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3.00 Credits
Preparation of an essay in the history or criticism of art and visual culture, conducted under the guidance of a member of the department faculty. Students may conduct a thesis in either fall or winter semester. Students conducting a senior thesis in history and criticism do not meet as a class. [W3] Normally offered every year. R. Corrie.
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3.00 Credits
This course has two goals: 1) to offer an introduction to Chinese aesthetics through architecture and the fine arts; 2) to study Buddhist aesthetic ideas expressed in rock-cut temples, monasteries, and garden design. Students travel to historically important cities in China: Beijing, Datong, Luoyang, Xian, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Suzhou. Recommended background: Art and Visual Culture/Asian Studies 234 or 243, any course in Chinese language and literature, Asian Studies/Religious Studies 208 and 309. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 12. T. Nguyen.
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3.00 Credits
While cultural commentators, professional and otherwise, often describe U.S. consumer culture as a monolithic or homogenizing force, the complexity of consumption and variations among consumers are receiving increasing attention. This course considers consumers in consumer culture, with a focus on the United States. Questions may include: How does participation in consumer culture vary according to shared factors such as gender, race, sexuality, economic status, age, and location, or conversely, the individual idiosyncrasy What is involved in consuming such contested products as pornography or video games How does consumption vary across products How, for instance, is buying art different from buying shoes Enrollment limited to 25. E. Rand.
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3.00 Credits
This course investigates the transformation of art and architecture that began with Leonardo da Vinci and his contemporaries, and remade the visual culture of Italy and northern Europe in the urban and courtly settings of the sixteenth century. Using traditional and recent modes of analysis to address the effect of religion, gender, and social and political structures on visual culture, students research the works of Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Bronzino, Titian, Anguissola, Palladio, and Holbein, among others. Attention is given to the changing reputations of the artists and their clients over the last five centuries. Not open to students who have received credit for Art and Visual Culture 266. Enrollment limited to 30. [W2] R. Corrie.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on using the potter's wheel as a tool to generate forms-functional and sculptural. Soda firing glazes the work in a unique way that enhances every surface. Various clays, slips, and glazes are employed in exploration of the techniques used by the pioneers of the soda-firing process, as well as its current practitioners. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 13. Normally offered every year. T. Gulden.
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3.00 Credits
This course considers clothing in terms of the production of goods, markets, and meanings. Topics may include the Nike boycott, outsourcing, and the Clean Clothes Campaign; the function of clothes in the construction of cultural, social, and personal identities; the regulation of clothes to enforce behavioral standards, such as gender normativity; selling, advertising, shopping, and acquisition, with attention to issues of class, race, gender, nationality, sex, and sexuality in the making of markets for particular products; and "ethnic" dress, queer fashion, and other clothes that may raise issues of appropriation, allegiance, and cultural theft. Enrollment limited to 25. Instructor permission is required. E. Rand.
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3.00 Credits
Tea and Zen Buddhism came to Japan from China in the twelfth century. The tea ceremony developed from these imports and many schools have been formed since then, but all have kept the ceramic tea bowl as one of the most important focal points. In this course, students explore the history of the ceremony by making tea bowls and related utensils. Various clays, forming methods, and styles are explored. Enrollment limited to 15. P. Heroux.
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3.00 Credits
Analyzing how the history of museums and architecture has influenced paradigms of display and taxonomy, and how display and taxonomy have influenced museums and architecture, this course views the past in an attempt to identify characteristics of new museum ideologies of the twenty-first century. Few institutional concepts have the fortitude and resilience to continually defend and renew themselves from external attack and self-referential lethargy. The museum "conquers" by slowly assimilating cultural challenges. In the past hundred years, the museum has met these challenges while increasing its relevance and historical importance despite architectural makeovers, financial scandal, censorship, cultural shifts, and the ever-changing demands of new media. As the work shifts from analog to digital, museums are presenting exhibitions of painting, sculpture, photography, and video to ever-increasing audiences. Field trips are planned. Enrollment limited to 15. Instructor permission is required. Staff.
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3.00 Credits
For four centuries Italy and Italian art have drawn artists, writers, and scholars from America and transalpine Europe. This course focuses on the literature, art, and art history that have emerged from this encounter, stressing the work of such writers as Stendhal, Hawthorne, James, Forster, Mann, and the Brownings, and artists including Mengs, West, Turner, Lewis, and Hosmer. It investigates the manner in which the nature of that encounter shaped the practice of the history and criticism of art from Winkelmann and Ruskin to Berenson and van Marle, and even the political life and material survival of Italy itself, and concludes by considering the recent spate of films that seek to evoke this now nearly-lost expatriate world, including A Room With a View and Tea with Mussolini. Open to first-year students. Enrollment limited to 30. [W2] R. Corrie.
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3.00 Credits
Many people conceive of Vietnam through images of war rather than through its culture. This course offers students an opportunity to study modern Vietnamese culture through documentary and feature films produced by westerners and Vietnamese during the last fifty years. The course helps students to gain insight into a traditional culture that, in part, shaped the modern course of Vietnam's history. The course challenges the old stereotypical views of Vietnam advanced by Hollywood movies with the new cultural images presented through Vietnamese eyes. Enrollment limited to 25. T. Nguyen.
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