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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. The course will introduce color, larger scale printing, fiber-based printing, and medium format materials. With elementary skills and historical context in place, the class will focus on manifestations of the photographic image as an art object, both physically and conceptually. Technical, aesthetic, and conceptual possibilities of photography are explored through shooting assignments, readings, slide presentations, lab work, and critiques. Class time will be spent in lecture, slide presentations, lab work, critique, and occasional field trips. Students will be expected to respond to assignments with technical competence and critical clarity. Prerequisite: Art 290 or consent of the instructor. Conference.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course introduces students to the fundamentals of digital media. Technical and conceptual units will be presented in both a historical context and in light of contemporary arts practice. We will explore the link between art, technology, and the computer through readings, slide presentations, and class discussions. Topics will include the nature of the digital document; the relationship of digital forms to traditional hand-based media; the machine/digital aesthetic; intersecting discourses of art, new media, and the sciences. Students will learn to acquire, manipulate, and print digital images. The class will also explore the use of the computer as an autonomous art tool through programming and examine the possibility of process-based art. Students will be expected to respond to assignments with technical competence and critical clarity. Prerequisite: Art 161 or consent of the instructor. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. With basic familiarity with the digital environment and possibilities for image creation and treatment, we will explore the use of the moving image and digital video as related to art. Students will be exposed to the concepts and techniques of nonlinear video editing and interactivity. We will analyze the ways in which artists employ these technologies and tools into their works through theoretical readings, class discussions, and slide presentations. Assignments will simultaneously address technical and conceptual topics such as the relationship of the real to the virtual and the analog to the digital; scale and repetition; narrative and sequence; meaning and value in the mechanically produced image; the ontological implications of indexical representation; and the dematerialization of the visual object. Class time will be spent in lecture, slide presentations, lab work, critique, and occasional field trips. Students will be expected to respond to assignments with technical competence and critical clarity. Although the course is designed as an extension of Art 295, students with adequate computer literacy may enroll without Art 295. Prerequisite: Art 295 or Art 161 and consent of the instructor. Conference.
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3.00 Credits
One-half course for one semester. This course is intended for, but not limited to, junior and senior majors in art and art history. This team-taught course will introduce students to innovative examples of recent art historical scholarship, spanning a broad geographical and chronological range of topics. Texts will be read with an eye to understanding the methods currently engaged within the discipline of art history and within other fields to interpret visual artifacts. The course also will offer a forum for participants to test the applicability of these interpretive strategies through presentations of their own work. Prerequisites: Art 201 and at least one 300-level course in art history or studio art. This course may be repeated for credit. Conference.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course will investigate the decoration of the Roman house, with a particular focus on the representation of myth in a domestic context. We will begin by discussing the organization and function of the house in Roman society. We will then consider how mythological scenes found in such spaces could be understood in light of Roman conspicuous consumption, erudite display, gender roles, or religious practices. Mythological painting abounds in the villas of Herculaneum and Pompeii; however, the course will also include late antique examples of myth in domestic settings (such as the floor mosaics of Antioch on the Orontes, or the silver vessels found in Kaiseraugst on the Rhine). Students will give due consideration to what ancient texts (by Petronius, Vitruvius, Pholostratus, and others) might tell us about domestic decoration and the Roman viewer, and what modern interpreters (such as Bryson, Elsner, and Bergmann) might have to contribute to our understanding. Prerequisite: Art 201 or consent of the instructor. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course examines the art and architecture of the Italian Renaissance courts during the late medieval and early modern periods. Concentrating primarily on the dynastic centers of Milan, Mantua, Ferrara, and Urbino, the course explores the ways in which Renaissance art operated in the service of the court as a powerful tool of statecraft. We will consider the union of art and politics by examining the patronage of the secular princes, while also analyzing how the visual identity of the state intersected with representations of gender and religious difference in the Italian Renaissance city-states. The course will provide new insights into the famous masterworks by artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Andrea Mantegna and place their work within a larger discourse that incorporates less well-known local art by painters including Cosimo Tura and Dosso Dossi. Prerequisite: Art 201 or consent of the instructor. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. A consideration of the ways in which individual works of art and art in general have been understood. This course will examine the historical interpretation of art from its beginnings (Vasari and Wincklemann) through the foundations of modern art history (Panofsky, W lfflin, Riegl) to the present day (Baxandall, Fried, Bryson). Special attention will be paid to approaches outside of the mainstream of art history (Freudian psychoanalysis and Marxism) and to the methods of interpretation developed in art history's sister disciplines (literary criticism and history). Theoretical problems will be tested against important and controversial works of art such as the Arch of Constantine, Velazquez's Las Meninas, Poussin's Et in Arcadia Ego, the paintings of Gustave Courbet, and Manet's Olympia. Prerequisite: Art 201 or consent of the instructor. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. In Lives of the Artists Giorgio Vasari describes how "the arts were born anew" in Renaissance Florence. The city's streets and piazzas, palaces and churches, paintings and sculptures all give visual form to the cultural and social changes that affected Florentine life. In its study of artists such as Brunelleschi, Botticelli, Leonardo, and Michelangelo, this course concentrates on the 15th and 16th centuries as a period of innovation, in terms of both artistic theory and practice. Through an examination of Florence's public, ecclesiastical, and domestic spaces, we will consider how visual and material culture served as markers of civic identity and social distinction. Prerequisite: Art 201 or consent of the instructor. Lecture-conferenc
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course will examine book production from late medieval manuscripts through the rise of printing in the Early Modern period. While some attention will be paid to chronological developments, the primary focus will be thematic. Among the issues considered will be the role of collaboration and workshops, the relationship of word to image, the nature of reproduction, and the impact of technological change. Throughout we will consider the book as a complex whole in its original and modern contexts, working when possible with examples in local collections. Prerequisite: Art 201 or consent of the instructor. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. An examination of works of art and architecture made in the Mediterranean world between c. 200 and c. 600. Major monuments considered include the Christian and Jewish buildings at Dura-Eupros, the catacombs, the monuments of Constantinian and post-Constantinian Rome, the churches of Ravenna, Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, and the icons and monastery of Mt. Sinai. Special attention is paid to placing works in their art historical, historical, and religious contexts and in understanding how art, society, and theology were not interrelated in this period. Conference. Prerequisite: Art 201 or consent of the instructor. Not offered 2009-10.
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