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3.00 Credits
This course examines the arts of North American Indians, with special emphasis on the relationship of Native American Art to belief and ritual. The content, including geographical areas, media and time period may vary from semester to semester. Satisfies: Art History/Liberal Arts elective requirements.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on 20th Century artists who have used their work as a means of engagement with the social issues of their time. Satisfies: Art History Elective Requirement
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3.00 Credits
Art Since 1960 explores the plurality of the artistic enterprise from 1960 to the present, including pop, op, minimalism, art and technology, performance, conceptual and earth art. Satisfies: Art History/Liberal Arts elective requirement
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3.00 Credits
What are the issues in the visual arts at the turn of the 21st century? Contemporary Issues in the Arts focuses on a number of topics including: new media; the real and virtual in performance art; the digital revolution and work on Websites; public art and site specificity; the museum and its meaning; the role of the curator; internationalism; the global and the local; rethinking the object; relationships of high art to popular culture; interconnections between fine arts and design arts; originality and appropriation. Satisfies: Art History/Liberal Arts Elective requirement
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3.00 Credits
Although once considered a pale imitation of ancient Greece, the artistic accomplishments of Republican and Imperial Rome have undergone major reappraisal during the 20th century. Art of Ancient Rome assesses the relationship between Roman art and its culture of conquest, focusing on Roman contributions to architecture, engineering and urban planning, in addition to the development of portraiture and landscape as significant artistic genre. Satisfies: Art History/Liberal Arts Elective Requirement
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3.00 Credits
The Real Thing examines questions of art in public space. From Christo and Jeanne Claude's recent New York City Central Park Gates project; to Richard Serra's Tilted Arc controversy that questioned who is the public for public art; to Janet Cardiff's recent soundscape walking tour at Eastern State Penitentiary; to waste water treatment plants and land reclamation projects designed by artists; to the huge Arizona desert project, Roden Crater, by James Turrell, this course will explore the ways in which artists use public space as site and concept for their work. While looking at work across time and many continents, the main focus will be modern and contemporary work in the U.S. Using the wealth of public work that fills the city of Philadelphia as one focal point, we will consider issues related to land art, site-specific art, percent-for-art programs, art for civic enhancement, and art in landscapes that few if anyone can get to see. Who is the public for that kind of work? Among the Philadelphia projects we will examine are: the mural arts program, the Village of Arts and Humanities, Oldenburg's Clothespin, the Fairmount Park Art Association's sculpture program, the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority's one-percent-for-art program, art installations at the airport and at City Hall. We will also consider other elements of visual design that surround us in our urban space from architecture, to billboards, to manhole covers, to street signage. Satisfies: Art History/Liberal Arts elective requirement
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3.00 Credits
This course examines 20th- and 21st-century craft objects, processes, and issues from Japanese, Chinese, and Korean perspectives. Particular attention will be paid to their influence on international design and usefullness as resources for contemporary American designers, as well as their roots in ancient techniques, materials and concepts. With a major focus on textiles, fashion, and ceramics, we will also explore paper, furniture, lacquer, industrial and commercial design, metals, etc., as appropriate. Students will attend the Philadelphia Craft show in November and participate in several site visits to area galleries and collections. Satisfies: Art History/Liberal Arts elective requirement and Textile Major requirement.
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3.00 Credits
This course traces the international development of craft and design history from William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement in mid-nineteenth century England to objects, concepts and issues confronting craft and design in today's marketplace.
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3.00 Credits
Women and Art explores issues about women as producers of culture and women as subjects of art. We will look at work by and about women and discuss topics including: sexual politics and visual images; the social construction of gender; media imagery and women; the female body--identity and performance; and definitions of art, craft, and design as they relate to "women's work." Satisfies: Art History/Liberal Arts elective requirement
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3.00 Credits
Women and Art: Japan provides a historical survey of the complex relationships between women and the arts in Japan. Because of the relatively late arrival of patriarchy and the unique role women's voices assumed in literature, women's roles as artists, audience, patrons and subjects of the arts were far more important than in other modernized countries. Unified around themes of empowerment and status as subject, the course will begin with an examination of women's roles in early culture, particularly their importance as patrons, and then proceed to explore the impact of women's voices: from the aesthetic influence of the 11th century Tale of Genji, and late Heian and Kamakara illustrated hand-scrolls, through medieval Noh theater, the court arts of Tosa painters and the architecture of Katsura, to the popular 18th century Ukiyo-e prints as well as modern film and video. Satisfies: Art History, Humanities or Liberal Arts NW Elective Requirement
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