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3.00 Credits
This course traces the different paths of painting, sculpture, and photography in the united States and, less so,Western Europe sinceWorldWar II. Initially, most of these paths traced a relationship with the "crisis of modernism," but increasingly, they have taken on a different vitality, drawing energy from a wide variety of postmodern and postcolonial subjects and debates: identity politics, transnationalism, diaspora. Can something that can be identified as an avantgarde practice exist in such a context What kinds of questions are appropriate to ask about works that stridently attempt to suspend the very category of art Meets Humanities I-A requirement A. Lee Prereq. soph, jr, sr, or permission of instructor; 4 credits
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3.00 Credits
A study of the work of individual painters and the cultural environment in which painting was produced and viewed in America. topics will include landscape painting, impressionism, naturalism, modernism, the machine age, the city, abstract expressionism, and pop art. Eakins, Homer, Sargent, Whistler, Cassatt, O'Keeffe, Hopper, Pollock, Johns, andWarhol are some of the artists to be discussed. Meets Humanities I-A requirement P. Staiti Prereq. soph, jr, sr, or permission of instructor; 4 credits
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3.00 Credits
A survey of painting, architecture, sculpture, and design from the Colonial period to the late nineteenth century, this course introduces students to period styles and building types, as well as individual painters and architects. Classes develop ways of looking at and thinking about art and objects as material expressions of American social, political, and cultural ideas. topics will include: portraiture, colonial Boston, art and revolution, nature and nation, theWest, domestic architecture, and the city ofWashington. Copley, Peale, Jefferson, Stuart, Cole, and Church are some of the key figures to be studied. Meets Humanities I-A requirement P. Staiti Prereq. soph, jr, sr, or permission of instructor; 4 credits
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3.00 Credits
This course will survey arts of China from the neolithic period to the twentieth century. Class lectures will analyze ceramics, bronze vessels, sculpture, architecture, calligraphy, and painting in relation to various religious ideas and political formations that took place in China's long history. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-A requirement A. Sinha Prereq. soph, jr, sr, or permission of instructor; 4 credits
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the special characteristics of Japanese art and architecture, from the early asymmetry of Jomon pottery and the abstraction of Haniwa figures to the later elite arts of the aristocratic, military, and merchant classes: narrative scroll painting, goldground screens, and the "floating world" ofthe color woodblock print. A historical survey of the arts of Japan, highlighting the interplay of art with religious and political issues. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-A requirement A. Sinha Prereq. soph, jr, sr, or permission of instructor; 4 credits
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3.00 Credits
This course will survey the arts of India from the earliest times to the twentieth century. Class lectures will describe the relationships between geography, religious beliefs, and cultural history as they are embodied principally in the history of painting, sculpture, and architecture of the subcontinent of India. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-A requirement A. Sinha Prereq. soph, jr, sr, or permission of instructor; 4 credits
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3.00 Credits
Through investigation of major works produced in the Muslim world between the seventh and seventeenth centuries from Spain to India, this course explores the ways in which art and architecture were used to embody the faith, accommodate its particular needs, and express the power of its rulers. topics include the calligraphy of the Qur'an, illustrated literature, the architecture of the mosque, and the aristocratic palace. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-A requirement A. Sloan Prereq. soph, jr, sr, or permission of instructor; 4 credits
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8.00 Credits
Fall 2008 320f(01) Miracles, Romance, and Satire: Storytelling in Medieval Art This course will explore the ways in which images are composed into visual narratives to both inform and persuade. Discussion will focus on stained glass, featuring Chartres Cathedral, as well as religious and secular manuscripts including the Cantigas de Santa Maria and the Book of Fauvel, a wicked critique of the French court.We will investigate the multimedia interplay of pictures with texts and music to present complex, sometimes contradictory, messages. Meets Humanities I-A requirement M. Davis Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits in art history or medieval studies, or permission of instructor; 4 credits Spring 2009 320s(01) Illuminated Manuscripts of the Later Middle Ages The decorated book was one of the most important forms of art making in the middle ages. This course presents an integrative approach to the study of these objects, taking into consideration their structure, text, pictorial and decorative programs, and bindings. We will investigate the patronage, production, use, and a?erlife of a range of illuminated manuscripts in the later middle ages, including the continuous traditions of monastic and courtly book production, as well as the new development of urban manuscript industries by lay artisans. Meets Humanities I-A requirement C. Andrews Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits in art history or medieval studies, or permission of instructor; 4 credits
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3.00 Credits
This seminar explores the residence as the primary site of familial, institutional, and cultural identity formation. using primary and modern texts, historical accounts, and the oretical tracts, we will analyze the form and function of urban dwellings at specific moments in European history. Starting with the palazzi of Florentine merchants in the Renaissance and ending up with the h?els of eighteenth-century Parisian women, we will examine the ways in which architects took into account multiple concerns, from antiquity, vernacular tradition, and the need for material display, to gender and social roles, political status, and ceremonial uses. Meets Humanities I-A requirement A. Jarrard Prereq. jr, sr; 8 credits in art history or permission of instructor; 4 credits
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8.00 Credits
Meets Humanities I-A requirement The department Prereq. jr, sr, 8 credits in art history, preferably including Art History 241 or 244, or permission of instructor; 4 credits
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