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Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. A history of world photography from 1839 to the present and its relation to cultural contexts as well as to various theories of the functions of images. Topics discussed in considering the nineteenth century will be the relationship between photography and painting, the effect of photography on portraiture, photography in the service of exploration, and photography as practiced by anthropologists; and in considering the twentieth century, photography and abstraction, photography as "fine art", photography and the critique of art history, and photography and censorhip.
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Leja, Shaw. This course surveys the history of modern art in the U.S. from its international prominence during the 1950s and then to its alleged replacement by "postmodernism." We will explore relation of this art to historical processes of modernization (industrialization, urbanization, technological development, the rise of mass media and mass markets, etc.) and to the economic polarization, social fragmentation, political conflict, and myriad cultural changes these developments entailed. Undergraduate Seminars & Independent Study 301. (AFRC303, CINE300, VLST301) Undergraduate Seminar. (C) Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Meister, Holod, Brownlee, Poggi, Haselberger, Kuttner, Davis, Maxwell, Cole, Pittman, Silver, Beckman, Leja, Shaw, Dombrowski, Ousterhout. Undergraduate Major Preference. Topic varies.
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Holod. Permission of instructor required. Topic Varies Senior Thesis. (E) Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor required. See department for appropriate section numbers. Independent Study. (C) Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. See department for appropriate section numbers. Intermediate Courses 412. Indian Temple Architecture. (C) Meister. The history of Hindu temple architecture from A.D. 400-1400, concentrating on the means by which a "language" for symbolic architecture was developed. Lab sessions with photographs as well as lectures will be included.
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Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Holod. Istanbul, Samarkand, Isfahan, Cairo and Delhi as major centers of art production in the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. Attention will be given to urban and architectural achievement as well as to the key monuments of painting and metalwork. The visual environment of the "gunpowder empires".
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Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Pittman. Emphasis on monumental art work of the Ancient Near East as the product of cultural and historical factors. Major focus will be on Mesopotamia from the late Neolithic to the Neo-Assyrian period, with occasional attention to related surrounding areas such as Western Iran, Anatolia, and Syria.
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Pittman. This course offers a survey of ancient Iranian art and culture from the painted pottery cultures of the Neolithic era to the monuments of the Persian Empire. The format is slide illustrated lecture.
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Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Kuttner. Survey of the Republican origins and Imperial development of Roman sculpture -free-standing, relief, and architectural - from ca. 150 BC to 350 AD. We concentrate on sculpture in the capital city and on court and state arts, emphasizing commemorative public sculpture and Roman habits of decorative display; genres examined include relief, portraits, sarcophagi, luxury and minor arts(gems, metalwork, coinage). We evaluate the choice and evolution of styles with reference to the functions of sculptural representation in Roman culture and society.
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Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Ousterhout. Architecture and its decoration from Early Christian times in East and West until the sixth century A.D., and in the Byzantine lands until the Turkish Conquest.
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3.00 Credits
Maxwell. Selected problems in pre-Carolingian, and Ottonian architecture. The course will be conducted as a colloquium, focusing on current issues ans methodologies for dealing with them. A reading knowledge of French, German, or Italian is desirable.
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