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3.00 Credits
This class will investigate different manifestations of the U.S./Mexican border in the visual arts. Examining different perspectives through a variety of media, this class will complicate and expand the more one-dimensional treatment of the border in mass media as a linear and fixed entity. Throughout the class we will explore how representations of the border correspond to shifting social, political and economic circumstances as well as discourses surrounding multiculturalism and globalization.
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3.00 Credits
The course will focus on the growth of institutions such as the museum and the biennale in championing a Latin American avant-garde. The course will address both international influences as well as specific local conditions in circumscribing the category of the avant-garde art in Latin America.
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3.00 Credits
This course traces the different directions photography has taken since its inception. Using the social and cultural environment as a context and focus, the ever-increasing use by artists of photography from the camera obscura to the present will be examined. Photography's invention would change the role of the artists from the 19th- through 21st-centuries. Course lectures will cover the many uses of photography including its rise as a separate art form and how it has changed our perceptions of the world. In the 21st-century, photographs have become a discreet language of signs, symbols, and metaphors with implied narratives.
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3.00 Credits
This lecture course provides for the study of art and architecture in a country outside of the United States Prerequisites: Full Major or Minor status in Art History.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores different topics and themes in the study of European art, c. 1400-1700. Course content varies by semester.
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3.00 Credits
The course introduces students to reading, looking, and writing about art and visual culture. In addition, it will introduce students to seminal theoretical texts that address the issues of visual perspectives on race, class, gender, the body, art and culture. The assigned texts raise relevant questions: What is an image? How does one acquire visual literacy? What is the relationship between word and image? How does one approach and write about images effectively? Where does meaning reside? How has the emergence of the Internet and the digital camera changed our notions of an image and its replications? The course is structured around different media and thematic issues. One of the goals of the course is to teach students to write about all facets of art and visual images; more importantly, students will walk away from this course with the knowledge of, and polished skills in, different writing styles (descriptive, analytical, theoretical, creative/poetic, and research). Prerequisites: "C-" or better in ARTH 2500 AND Instructor Consent AND Full Major or Minor status in Art History.
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3.00 Credits
The course examines the visual culture of China as a series of global encounters between China, its East Asian neighbors, and the West. Topics may range from the Yuan Dynasty as part of the Mongol Empire (1271-1368), to the impact of trade on luxury objects of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1922), to the rise to twentieth-century Chinese art on the global stage. Regardless of the temporal focus, the course strives to introduce interpretive approaches to the study of Chinese art raised by its transnational and international history, as well as to explore key debates relates to art of globalization.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar provides students with an opportunity to examine visual treatments of special themes and topics in Chinese art and visual culture. Prerequisites: Instructor Consent.
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3.00 Credits
The architectural and artistic expressions of ancient Greece from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic era are examined through lecture, discussion, and written essays. The course first addresses perspectives on surviving Cycladic, Minoan and Mycenaean artifacts before turning to sites of art making in Greek city-states and their colonies. Students will be introduced to basic ideas of archaeological discovery as well as contemporary views on the legacy of Greek material culture.
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3.00 Credits
The course focuses on art forms linked with changing political, religious, and social agendas during the growth of an empire in Antiquity that came to encompass the whole of the Mediterranean Basin and Britannia. As a consequence of Rome's pervasive world view, its patrons exploited technology and the latest fashion to shape a diverse visual environment that ranges from state monuments to private objects for daily use. Through lecture, discussion, and written essays, students will investigate factors shaping cultural interpretation.
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