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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A survey of Japanese and Chinese art from the Bronze Age to the 18th century, with particular emphasis on objects in the Cleveland Museum of Art. The relationship of art works to Buddhism and Hinduism is explored along with cultural rituals, ceremonies, and traditions.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the major developments in the arts of East Asia from the bronze age to the present in a wide range of media, including sculpture, painting, ceramics, architecture, calligraphy, prints, and installations. The course explores factors behind the making of works of art, including social, political and religious meanings, while examining the historical contexts for the arts of China, Japan, and Korea. Attention will be paid to the relationship between art and the ideas and practices of Buddhism, Shinto, Daoism, and Confucianism. Our topics include: secular and sacred narrative scroll painting, ceramics and tea culture, landscape painting, Buddhist cave temples, ancient bronzes, mortuary art, expressions of resistance and reclusion in visual arts, cross-cultural exchanges within the region and with the West, and the role of East Asian artists in the contemporary international art market.
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3.00 Credits
Tradition and transformation in Jewish artistic expression over time and across space. Course will begin with biblical period and continue down to the present day in Israel and America. Examination of how concepts such as "Jewish" and "art" undergo change within the Jewish community over this period. Offered as ARTH 220 and JDST 220.
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3.00 Credits
Beginning with Ancient Greece and Rome and ending in Cleveland, the course will provide orientation in the architectural orders and in most periods of European and Euro-American architectural history, as well as, to an extent, architectural criticism. The issue of how architecture has meaning will be central, not least in connection with the formalized "language" of classicism and the emergence of development of building types (temple, museum, civic hall, transportation buildings, etc.). We will also review more subtle ways in which architecture conveys meaning or mood, and the assignment of gendered associations to certain architectural elements. The course will consider more or less blatant political uses of architecture and architectural imagery, but also more elusive and/or ambiguous cases, as well as the phenomenon of the shifting meanings of architecture through changes of era, owner, audience, etc. Offered as ARTH 221 and CLSC 221.
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3.00 Credits
A selection of cities and sanctuaries from the ancient Near East, Egypt, the Aegean, Greece, Etruria, and Rome; their political and religious institutions and the relationship to contemporary art forms. Offered as ARTH 227 and CLSC 227.
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of the role of athletics in the ancient, primarily Greek world, and their reflection in the art of the period. Offered as ARTH 228 and CLSC 228.
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3.00 Credits
Western traditions of architecture and urban design from antiquity to the early nineteenth century, with emphasis on pre-industrial cities and landscapes. Interactions between western theory and practice and certain non-western cultures, especially the Arab/Turkish world and China.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to the pivotal works of art created between approximately 250 and 1500. We will discuss painting, sculpture, architecture, manuscript illumination, and graphic arts. Medieval visual and material culture will be considered within the framework of socio-political developments, rapid urban growth, the flowering of monastic culture, the rise of universities, and changes in devotional practices. While the course will primarily focus on western part of the medieval Christendom, we will also discuss Jewish, Byzantine, and Islamic art. Visits to the CMA will form an integral part of the course.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of developments in Renaissance art and architecture in northern Europe and Italy during a new age of science, discovery and exploration, 1400-1600.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of European art in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, an era of rising nationalism, political aggrandizement, religious expansion and extravagant art patronage. The tensions between naturalism and idealization, court and city, public and private, church and secular patronage, grand commissions and an open air market, will provide themes of the course as we explore what characterized the arts of Austria, Belgium, England, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, and Spain.
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