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3.00 Credits
This course investigates the diverse intersections of art, trade, and religion along the Silk Road: the network of overload routes that stretched from China in the east to the ports of Roman Empire in the west. The first part of the course explores the chronological and geographical breadth of the Silk Road through its visual and material culture, while the second part is devoted to a study of the basic styles and iconographies of Buddhist art from the cave temple site of Dunhuang, the most important repository of Buddhist art from the historical Silk Road.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the visual and material cultures of Buddhism as a pan-Asian phenomenon, past and present. The first part of the course introduces key debates and interpretive approaches to the study of Buddhist art raised by its transnational and international history. Beginning in India, the movement of Buddhist art across Asia reflects a complex process of cultural, social, and religious adaptation to local contexts that provides a historical counterpoint to contemporary discussions of globalization. The second part of the course focuses on select major Buddhist monuments within their specific cultural settings and is attentive to the modern rediscovery of ancient sites as seen through a comparative cultural lens.
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3.00 Credits
The course focuses on the intersections of art, displacement, and diaspora through the lens of American visual culture. Accordingly, this course takes the historical and current experience of Asian Americans as a framework to visualize and analyze artistic creativity and media representation within the context of a specific racial and ethnic minority group in the United States. By studying fine art, commercial images, documentary photography, the built environment, and popular media, our goal is to critique the potential of images to create bias as well as to question power structures of race, class, and gender. Topics include Chinatowns and Japanese interment camps as sites of art making, and modern and contemporary artists of the Asian American diaspora.
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3.00 Credits
The course surveys the rich cultural settings of ancient Greece and Rome through lecture, discussion, and written essays in order to explore the emergence and evolution of distinct visual identities. A broad range of objects is considered in developing interpretive strategies of works of art and architecture. Students will analyze the role of key monuments in framing a notion of a classical ideal. Principles of archaeology will open discussions on modern perceptions of Antiquity.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the visual and material culture of Byzantium, Western Europe, and the Islamic world, roughly covering the years between 500'1500. During this time, the rise and expansion of Christian and Islamic polities prompted discourse between diverse communities. How did medieval artists, patrons, and viewers negotiate issues of difference, plurality, power, and faith? How did they articulate their identity and place within global networks? Of special concern are dynamic histories of cross-cultural exchange, as made visible through commerce and diplomacy, the reuse of materials, and reinterpretation of forms. The course is organized into thematic modules and includes case studies in architecture as well as artistic media such as textiles, metalworks, precious gems and enamels, sculpture, and manuscripts.
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3.00 Credits
This course highlights the arts of medieval Byzantium, western Europe, and the Islamic world. Driven by questions of artists' knowledge and how art-objects were made, we will also consider the ways in which the physical and material properties of a work informed its meaning for historical viewers. Of special concern are the geographic origins of materials, the global networks by which they traveled, and the environmental and human cost of such exchanges. Over the course of the semester, we will focus on materials including but not limited to: textiles, metalworks, wood, stone, precious gems and glass, ceramics, and the arts of the book. Each unit is organized with an eye to chronology as well as the interplay between visual cultures as they developed through commerce, gift exchange, and the reuse of objects and spaces.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the art and architecture from the premodern Islamic world, roughly the seventh to sixteenth centuries. We will follow the patronage of major polities and art produced in the central Islamic lands, while at the same time highlighting new methodological approaches in an expanded field. We will be interested in theorizing relationships between centers and peripheries; in the significance of materials and facture; in networks of trade, conflict, and exchange; and in formal continuity and change. Case studies will include works of architecture, ceramics, metalwork, textiles, and the arts of the book. The course consists of in-person lectures and discussions of readings.
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3.00 Credits
Course content focuses on the power of artistic forms molded for a Roman Empire, Christianized and reseated in Constantinople. Through lecture, discussions, oral reports, and written essays, images and structures reveal a co-mingling of religious and political spheres. We will explore Byzantine perceptions of experimentation, innovation, and maturation. Students will also analyze the effect of iconoclasm, a cataclysmic period of theological controversy, on models of patronage, visual expression and viewership.
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3.00 Credits
This course serves as an introduction to Islamic arts of the book: from the earliest Qur'ans to the lavish narratives of the Timurids and manuscripts of the early modern Safavids, Ottomans, and Mughals. Although the course is organized roughly according to chronology, we will pay particular attention to questions about materials and facture, reading and performance, copying and originality, the relationship between text and image, and the exchange of knowledge. In-person lectures and discussions of readings (including primary sources in translation) will be supplemented with visits to Marriott Library Special Collections.
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3.00 Credits
Examines 15th- and 16th-century art in Europe. The goal is to understand what is meant by the cultural movement of the Renaissance and to explore its relationship to the works of the leading artists of Italy, the Netherlands, and Germany.
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