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3.00 Credits
Fulfills a course requirement in the Art and Architectural HistoryCore ConcentrationAn introduction to the visual cultures of the ancient and medievalworlds, including Africa, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East andAsia. Key issues and monuments focus the discussion, and works ofart, including painting, sculpture and architecture, are examined inrelation to their political, religious and social contexts.
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Fulfills a course requirement in the Art and Architectural HistoryCore ConcentrationPrerequisite: AAH 121A continuation of History of Art I, this course introduces the visualcultures of Africa, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Asiabeginning with the Renaissance and ending with our own modern day.Using key issues and monuments as the focus of discussion, the worksof art covered include painting, photography, film, sculpture andarchitecture. Emphasis is placed on the political, religious and socialcontexts of the object, as well as the artistic process.
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Prerequisite: AAH 121-122Cross-Listed with AAH 505This course will deepen the students' understanding of the modesof analysis in the history of the arts and architecture and theirphilosophical bases, including connoisseurship, iconography, theories ofthe evolution of art, psychoanalysis, the psychology of perception, issuesof gender and ethnicity, and theories of art criticism. Critical discussionof readings and writing will be stressed.
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Fulfills a course requirement in the Art and Architectural HistoryCore ConcentrationPrerequisite: AAH 121-122Survey of the history of painting, sculpture, and the "minor arts" inthe United States to show how these arts have expressed Americanways of living and how they have been related to American ideas.
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Fulfills a course requirement in the Art and Architectural HistoryCore ConcentrationPrerequisite: AAH 121-122A survey of modern art from 1863-1963 that examines the majormovements of the historical avant-garde in painting, sculpture, andphotography. Major themes include the construction of gender,the notion of the primitive, expression, approaches to abstraction,responses to the city, art and politics in the 1930s, and the post-WorldWar II cultural shift from Europe to America. Aspects of modernismas an international phenomenon will be addressed by reference towork from the urban centers of Europe, central Europe and Russia,the USA, South America, and Asia.
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Fulfills a course requirement in the Art and Architectural HistoryCore ConcentrationPrerequisite: AAH 121-122A survey of the arts of Sub-Saharan Africa, including painting,sculpture, textiles, architecture and performance arts. Specialemphasis is placed on these arts in the context of ritual. We willdiscuss perceptions and ideologies which have shaped the study of African Art and influenced our present understanding of thecontinent.
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Fulfills a course requirement in the Art and Architectural HistoryCore ConcentrationPrerequisite: AAH 121-122The major artists who created the Italian Renaissance style inpainting, sculpture and architecture are considered in their culturalcontext. Topics include the formation of the Renaissance style, thesignificance of subjects and forms based on Classical Antiquity, thedevelopment of the High Renaissance by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphaeland Michelangelo, and the interconnectedness of Renaissance artforms.
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Fulfills a course requirement in the Art and Architectural HistoryCore ConcentrationPrerequisite: AAH 121-122An in-depth investigation of Classical arts within the context ofthe institutions, values, and ideas that emerged in the civilizationsof Ancient Greece and Rome. Analyzes special topics in ancientarchitecture such as the art and architectural theory and practice ofantiquity, with the intent of accounting for the goals and aspirationsof specific cultures, societies, and patrons. Topics investigate howClassical societies interacted with each other and with other culturesoutside the sphere of Western civilization. Geographical areas ofexamination include mainland Greece and the Mediterranean islands,Asia Minor, Italy, North Africa, and Western Europe; the time framespans from circa 750 BC to circa 500 AD.
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Fulfills a course requirement in the Art and Architectural HistoryCore ConcentrationPrerequisite: AAH 121-122An in-depth investigation of the arts of the Middle Ages within thecontext of the institutions, values, and ideas that emerged in thecivilization of the Early Christian, Byzantine, and Western Medievalera. Analyzes special topics in Medieval art and architecture such asart and architectural theory and practice of the Middle Ages, with theintent of accounting for the goals and aspirations of specific cultures,societies, and patrons. Topics investigate how medieval culturesinteracted with each other, and with other cultures outside the sphereof Western civilization. Geographical areas of examination includeWestern and Eastern Europe, Asia Minor, and North Africa; the timeframe spans from circa 300 to circa 1500 AD.
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Fulfills a course requirement in the Art and Architectural HistoryCore ConcentrationPrerequisite: AAH 121-122Explores the syncretic nature of Islamic arts and architecture havingtaken root in very diverse cultural and geographic areas spanningthe Middle East, North Africa, Spain, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Indiansubcontinent, and Far East Asia. Lectures and readings will investigatethe impact of Islamic regulations on religious and secular architecture,and will discuss the importance of concepts such as decoration andornamentation. The development of a specific artistic approach, givingrise to an emphasis on geometry, calligraphy and "the arabesque"shall be investigated through examples from architecture, fiber arts,metal work, glass, ceramics, stucco and stone carving, and miniaturepainting.
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