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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This intermediate studio course provides a forum for more advanced and independent work for students who have completed the introductory sequence in photography or digital media. It will function as both a studio intensive and a junior seminar, with regular discussion of articles in contemporary media arts and theory, as well as selected historical writings and works. Assignments will be open-ended, providing thematic guidelines, which build on skills and conceptual awareness from the introductory courses. Assignments will also respond directly to individual and group interests. Possibilities include electronic visualization, collaborative video or still production, documentary, large-format photography, mural printing (photographic and digital), and hybridization of traditional and electronic photography. Topics of reading and research will include the aesthetics and politics of visual truth, the collective imagination of popular culture, the science and psychology of optics and seeing, and the indexical as a mode of representation. Class time will be spent in lecture, slide presentations, lab work, critique, and occasional field trips. Students must be highly self-motivated and will be expected to respond to assignments with technical competence and critical clarity. Prerequisites: Art 291 or 296 or consent of the instructor. Lecture-conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This advanced studio course explores architectural and landscape-based sculpture. We will study artists and architects from the 1970s to the present who work within the realm of environmental art, land art, and architecture. We will focus on new ecological materials and planning methods, which focus on the use of available resources and the invention of new materials such as the William McDunna, Rural Studio, Orta Studio, and Simpark. Studio training will begin with an introduction to drafting using AutoCAD, model building, planning strategies, writing proposals, and consideration of building materials. Students will create three scaled models of architectural works, draft a proposal, and build an element of one work out of doors. Land and Environmental Art, edited by Brian Wallis, will provide background texts for the course. Two local professionals will visit the class, one working in the realm of architecture and one working with landscape. Prerequisite: Art 161 and 281 or consent of the instructor. Studio. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course explores the significant role artists' books have played among the avant-garde of eastern and western Europe and the United States from the turn of the 20th century to the present. The structural format book works take and their social and political functions will be viewed, discussed, and fabricated. The course will cover binding both codex and accordion books, reproducing images using palmer plates, and setting and printing type and images using a Reprex letterpress. Reed's special collections will provide a spectrum of professional artists' books, including magazine works, anthologies, diaries, manifestos, visual poetry, word works, documentation, reproductions of sketchbooks, albums, comic books, paper art, and mail art. We will read and discuss essays relating to each studio problem. Prerequisites: Art 161 and one 200-level studio course or consent of the instructor. Studio-conference. Not offered 2009-1
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. The first few weeks of each course (Art 371 and 372) involve exploratory drawing toward a project to be proposed and executed over the rest of the semester. The project might involve continued work in drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, or two-dimensional mixed media. The two courses serve as a junior seminar with weekly discussions of critical essays and articles, and short papers. Readings may focus on modernist art and theory from 1940 to 1970; postmodernism and critical issues in art since 1970; 19th- and 20th-century aesthetics; and artist self-representation and intentionality. Prerequisites: Art 264 or 265, or Art 271 and 272, or consent of the instructor. May be repeated for credit. Studio-conference.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. The first few weeks of each course (Art 371 and 372) involve exploratory drawing toward a project to be proposed and executed over the rest of the semester. This project might involve continued work in drawing, painting, printmaking, collage, or two-dimensional mixed media. The two courses serve as a junior seminar with weekly discussions of critical essays and articles, and short papers. Readings may focus on modernist art and theory from 1940 to 1970; postmodernism and critical issues in art since 1970; 19th- and 20th-century aesthetics; and artist self-representation and intentionality. Prerequisites: Art 264 or 265, or Art 271 and 272, or consent of the instructor. May be repeated for credit. Studio-conference.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This studio and seminar course focuses on specific topics in contemporary art and criticism. The course integrates studio problems and critical readings. Technical instruction includes sculptural and architectural model building, wood and metal fabrication, wiring, projection of video works, cloth and alternative material fabrication methods, and wall and room construction. Topics covered change from year to year and include sculpture in the expanded field of landscape and architecture; illuminations, video, and photography in sculptural installations; collaboration and installation in a global art world; the material semiotics of feminism; the role of the artist in society: questioning authorship; and aesthetic criteria, modernism to minimalism. Prerequisite: Art 281 and 282, or 292 and 295, or consent of the instructor. May be repeated for credit. Studio-conference.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. Knowledge of the very small and the very large sets the parameters by which we understand our position in the system of things. This advanced studio and seminar course examines concepts of scale and magnification that help us define our place in the world. A focus on historical and contemporary uses of scale in artistic practice will guide a series of image- and object-oriented projects. Conceptual- and material-based assignments investigate the miniature and the monumental in the natural world and in our constructed environment. Studio training will introduce methods of model making, experimental drawing, proposal design, and alternative material fabrication. A series of readings including Susan Stewart, Gaston Bachelard, and Martin Heidegger's "Age of the World Picture" will accompany slide lectures and film screenings that will prompt assignments and discussions considering how these concepts impact art, technology, information, and our lives. Topics include: scale and the body, culture and consumption, the visible vs. the invisible. Prerequisites: Art 161 and one 200-level studio course or consent of the instructor. Studio-conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. From the 15th century through the early 20th century, the imperial city walled within the Ming and Qing dynasty capital at Beijing was the center of a politically mandated and produced visual and material culture. This seminar will explore the architecture, the city plan, and an array of objects produced at court, from carved walnuts in the shapes of boats to monumental dragons of white marble, from handscroll paintings to maps. We will interpret the city in light of classical Chinese theories of city design, theoretical discussion of ethnicity and the arts, and issues of identity surrounding the patronage and personality of the Qing emperors. The course will ask why and how the city, although forbidden, managed to become and remain the symbolic locus of power in late imperial China, and how it has been reinterpreted and re-presented by the Communist state. At the end of the semester we will investigate some current attempts at visual deconstruction of the city by 21st-century artists. Lecture-conference. Prerequisite: Art 201 or consent of the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Full course for one semester. This course explores Chinese cultural identity as expressed in global economies of art production and performance. We will study a dynamic field of artistic activity that touches on many central issues informing cultural identity in Maoist-era (1949-1976) and contemporary China: globalization and transnational formations; political ideology and censorship; the body, gender, and sexuality; and the impact of market forces and art-world institutions on the art scenes in Beijing and Shanghai. Along the way, we will question the status of the image: how is identity differently shaped and expressed in painting, photography, sculpture, and experimental arts such as performance and video Participants will conceive and design a thematically based exhibition of works produced since the mid-20th century. 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 relationship between the body and visual representation in China, addressing images of the body in a variety of media and the role played by the viewer's body in the reception of visual images. Case studies will be drawn from Chinese art. We will focus on images of the body in late imperial scrolls, woodblock prints, and sculpture, as well as contemporary photography, mixed-media installations, performance art, video, and web-based art. Readings will be drawn from art history, critical theory, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, and phenomenology. Each student will use course readings as a theoretical framework for a research project. Projects may be drawn from any historical moment or geographical location within China or the Chinese diaspora. Prerequisite: Art 201 or consent of the instructor. Conference. Not offered 2009-10.
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