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Not offered in the period from 08F through 10S This course surveys visual culture in North America from the sixteenth century to 1900. In addition to the development of Anglo-American culture and identity, the course also explores the influence of Dutch, Spanish, and French settlers as well as Native American, African, and Asian contributions to North American art. We will consider painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, graphic art, folk traditions, and material culture with special emphasis on race, nation, gender, and class. Dist: ART; WCult: W. Coffey.
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10S: 12 This course surveys visual culture in North America over the twentieth century. While the United States will be emphasized, we will also consider art produced in Canada and Mexico. In addition to mainstream artists, we will explore art produced by marginalized communities, in particular African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Mexican Americans, women, and Queer artists. Genres covered include: painting, sculpture, mural art, performance, installation, photography, and political graphics. Dist: ART; WCult: W. Coffey.
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Not offered in the period from 08F through 10S This course surveys works of art produced by Latin Americans during the twentieth century. We will approach this vast topic through case studies of the major figures and avant-garde movements in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, and the United States. We will examine how national identity, racial formation, class difference, gender inequality, political struggle, and state violence have been addressed by artists from the region and in diaspora. Dist: ART; WCult: W. Coffey.
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Not offered in the period from 08F through 10S This course surveys Modern art in Mexico from the turn of the twentieth century through the late 1960s. The course emphasizes Mexican muralism, but we will also examine alternative modernisms developing simultaneously and in opposition to this dominant discourse. We will survey painting, sculpture, murals, photography, popular graphics, folk art, architecture, and urban planning. Class will be devoted to the analysis of visual as well as textual materials from the period. Dist: ART; WCult: CI. Coffey.
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Intensive study of special fields in art history. Open to all classes without prerequisite (except as noted), but with the permission of the instructor.
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This seminar explores the relationship between skin and visual representation in a broad range of media from the Renaissance to the present. Topics include depictions of Christ's incarnation ("becoming flesh") as the "birth" of art, representation of flesh in Baroque and Romantic painting, complexion in relation to concepts of gender and race, debates on the opacity and transparency of skin, and skin as literal or metaphorical boundary between self and oth
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Ideals of Physical Beauty:Gender and the Body in Ancient Art.Cohen
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The seminar looks at the history of taste, collecting and patronage under the Hapsburgs, one of the most powerful dynastic families of Europe during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Attention will focus on the art produced and collected at the end of the 16th and 17th centuries at the courts of Rudolph II in Prague and Philip IV in Spain. Besides specific issues relating to patronage, collecting and the political symbolism of imperial art, the contributions of painters such as Titian, Arcimboldo and Velazquez will be discussed. Kenseth.
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Not offered in the period from 08F through 10S
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