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3.00 Credits
Meister. The wooden architecture of ancient India's cities is represented in relief carvings from Buddhist religious monuments of the early centuries A.D. and replicated in remarkable excavated cave cathedrals. This course will trace that architectural tradition, its transformation into a symbolic vocabulary for a new structure, the Hindu temple, and the development of the temple in India from ca. 500-1500 A.D.
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Davis, Chance. This course will introduce the major artistic traditions of Japan, from the Neolitic period to the present, and teach the fundamental methods of the descipline of art history. Our approaches will be chronological, considering how the arts developed in and through history, and thematic, discussing how art and architecture were used for philosophical, religious and material ends. Special attention will be given to the places of Shinto, the impact of Buddhism, and their related architectures and sculptures; the principles of narrative illustration; the changing roles of aristocratic, monastic, shogunal and merchant patronage; the formation of the concept of the 'artist' over time;and the transformation of tradition in the modern age.
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Steinhardt, Davis. The goals of this course are to introduce the major artistic traditions of China, from the Neolithic period to the present and to teach the fundamental methods of the discipline of art history. Our approaches will be chronological, considering how the arts developed in and through history, and thematic, discussing how art and architecture were used for philosophical, religious and material ends. Topics of study will include; Shang bronzes; Han concepts of the afterlife; the impact of Buddhism; patronage and painting; the landscape tradition; the concept of the literatus; architecture and garden design; the "modern" and 20th-century artistic practices; among others.
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3.00 Credits
Davis. An investigation of Japanese painting and practice from the earliest pictorial representations through the late twentieth century. Painting style and connoisseurship will form the basis of analysis, and themes such as landscape, narrative, and the expression of cultural identities in painting, will be considered in the context of larger social and cultural issues. Topics include: tomb painting, Heian development of "yamato-e," ink painting and the adaptation of Chinese styles, the expansion of patronage in the 18th century, and the turn toward internationalism in the late 19th and 20th centuries. May include visits to the PMA or other local collections, as available.
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3.00 Credits
Davis. Study of Chinese painting and practice from the earliest pictorial representation through the late twentieth century. Painting style forms the basis of analysis, and themes such as landscape and narrative will be considered with regard to larger social and cultural issues. The class will pay particular attention to the construction of the concepts of the "artist" and "art criticism" and their impact on the field into the present. Visits to look at paintings at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, PMA and/or local collections will be offered when possible.
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3.00 Credits
Holod. A one-semester survey of Islamic art and architecture which will examine visual culture as it functions within the larger sphere of Islamic culture in general. Particular attention will be given to relationships between visual culture and literature, using specific case studies, sites or objects which may be related to various branches of Islamic literature, including historical, didactic, philosophical writings, poetry and religious texts. All primary sources will be available in English translation.
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3.00 Credits
Davis. Study of the major art forms and architecture of Tokugawa (or Edo) period (1603-1868). In this course, we will consider how the arts of this era occur within an increasingly urban and modern culture, particularly with regard to the city of Edo. Issues of the articulation of authority in the built environment, the reinvention of classical styles, and patronage, among others. May include visits to the PMA, University Museum, or other local collections, as available.
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3.00 Credits
Haselberger, Kuttner. An intensive introduction to the art and architecture of the Greek World from Geometric to Hellenistic times, utilizing artifacts of the University Museum. Variable emphasis on topics ranging from stylistic innovation and persistence, commemorative genres, narrative, artistic program, patronage to tectonic structure, concepts of order and decoration, proportion, space, urbanism, and Vitruvian theories.
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3.00 Credits
Kuttner, Haselberger. An intensive introduction to the art and architecture of Rome and her empire from Republican and later Hellenistic to Constantinian times. Variable emphasis on topics ranging from major genres, styles, and programs of commemorative and decorative art, historical narrative, and political iconography to building types and functions and the specific Etrusco-Roman notion of space, land division, and city planning.
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3.00 Credits
Shank. This course is designed to give the student an overview of the cultures of the Aegean Bronze Age. The art and architecture of Crete, the Cyclades and the Mainland of Greece will be examined in chronological order, with an emphasis on materials and techniques. In addition, larger issues such as the development of social complexity and stratification, and the changing balance of power during the Aegean Bronze Age will be examined. There are two texts for the course: Sinclair Hood's The Arts in Prehistoric Greece and Donald Preziosi and Louise Hitchcock's Aegean Art and the Architecture.
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