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3.00 Credits
This course investigates the art of the Italian Renaissance from circa 1400 to 1520, with a special emphasis on the nature and relationship of the art forms of Greco Roman Antiquity to the Italian quattro and cinquecento revival. In class lecture and discussion are integrated with museum study. ARH 0176, ARH 0230 are preparatory but not required.
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This course explores painting in northern Europe from the International Style through the Gothic and Renaissance to the rise of the Baroque. Special emphasis is given to the interrelationship of paintings with social, economic, philosophical, and religious ideas. Visits to and oral and written projects at the Philadelphia Museum of Art's rich collection of northern European painting are integral to this course ARH 0175 or ARH 0176 are preparatory but not required.
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An examination of the late works of Michelangelo and Raphael will establish links with Mannerist painters such as Parmagianino, Pontormo, Bronzino, and others. Masters of seventeenth century painting, sculpture, and architecture in Italy, France, the Netherlands, and Spain will be examined against the backdrop of Reformation and Counter Reformation Europe. Visits to and oral and written projects at the Philadelphia Museum of Art's collections of sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth century painting and sculpture as well as to area monuments inspired by the Baroque style are integrated with class lecture and discussion. ARH 0176, 0255, or 0256 are preparatory but not required courses.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the architecture, painting, and sculpture of the U. S. from the seventeenth century through the 1913 Armory Show and the introduction of major contemporary Paris based art movements to the American art world. Integrated museum study and monument visitation are integral to course. ARH 0176 is a preparatory but not required course.
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3.00 Credits
This course responds to the recent tattoo renaissance across Europe and the U.S. in which bodily inscription, piercing, scarification, cicatrization, and other bodily decorations have migrated from the margins of Western culture to the center of popular, commercial, bourgeois culture. We will excavate the meaning-art historical, cultural, historical, and psychological-of the tattoo from its beginning in the Ice Age through its development in tribal ritual, through its facile, modern translation. Some themes for discussion are: the typology of tattoos-penal, religious, patriotic, etc; gender relationships within tattoo art; the migration of the tattoo as symbols of working class male rebellion to middle class, female expressions of status, self expression, and transgression; the body as canvas.
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3.00 Credits
A critical survey of the varied art forms of China and Japan from the Neolithic period to the nineteenth century, as influenced by religious philosophies and social institutions. A course in Asian history or Oriental religions is good preparation but not required. Area museum work/research is integral to this course.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the art and architecture of Islamic countries and India from the Neolithic to the nineteenth century. A course in Asian history or Oriental religions is good preparation but not required. Area museum work/research is integral to this course.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine a selected historical body of some of the first self portraits from the Italian and Northern Renaissance, to the development of the painted and photographed death portraits of the nineteenth century, to the assembly line produced Pop Art celebrity portraits of artists like Andy Warhol, to the explosion of self portraits with the camera and cell phone in the twentieth and twenty first centuries. Some themes to be investigated are: self reference in art; social media and art; the artist and the camera; the emergence of the individual in art; narcissism and art.
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A study of Native American stylistic traditions, monuments, and artifacts from the prehistoric southeastern and southwestern United States, organized by region. The emphasis is on the eighteenth century Iroquois Confederacy, the northwest coast and plains, the Inuit peoples, and the art of nineteenth century California. The course will also include lectures on contemporary Alaskan and Canadian artistic developments among the Navajos and other native groups. Area museum work/research is integral to this course.
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3.00 Credits
African American art forms an important and integral but overlooked piece of our cultural heritage. This interdisciplinary course traces and investigates the role of African American women in art, as both the objects and makers of representation, from their roots in slavery to the present day. We will examine painting, sculpture, pottery, woodcarving, architecture, photography, and filmmaking from the colonial era through the nineteenth century, the Harlem movement of the early twentieth century, the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's, and the contemporary art scene. Themes for discussion are the objectification of the black female body, the gendered portrayal of African American women in art, the devaluation of the African American woman's artistic contribution, and the role of this art in political struggles.
Prerequisite:
One history of art course or POI.
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