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5.00 Credits
Workshop. Contemporary museum culture emphasizing the collecting and exhibiting practices of art museums. Readings, field trips, and discussions with museum professionals. Each student creates a detailed proposal for a museum exhibition and presents it to a panel of faculty and curators. GER:DB-Hum 5 units, not given this year
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5.00 Credits
African Americans artistic expression in the 20s that reflected changing conditions of urban modernity and racial identity. The forms and meanings of African American modernism; social politics of black self-representation and white patronage; and how high culture became the primary front in the struggle for racial uplift. Cultural figures include: Aaron Douglas, W.E.B. Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Jacob Lawrence, Zora Neale Hurston, and Carl Van Vechten. Sources include painting, sculpture, music, and literature. 5 units, Aut (Marshall, J)
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5.00 Credits
Artistic and intellectual responses to modernization. Artistic uses of the machine as a metaphor for nature, the body, and sexuality; adaptation of mechanical technologies to art making; appreciation of machines as works of art; and how changing technologies in the industrial sphere impacted the artist's role in the cultural sphere. The place of the machine in architecture; historical role of industrial design; machine-themed museum exhibitions; and works by Fernand Léger, Le Corbusier, Rube Goldberg, Charles Sheeler, Charlie Chaplin, Raymond Loewy, and George Gershwin. 5 units, not given this year
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5.00 Credits
Themes, methods, and media in the production of Matisse, the familiar yet enigmatic 20th-century master. The phases of his career; critical responses to his work. Research project and presentation. Recommended: reading knowledge of French. 5 units, Spr (Marrinan, M)
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5.00 Credits
Photographic practices of foreign and Soviet travelers searching for the future in Russia and the Central Asian Republics during Stalin's crash industrialization and forced collectivization program of the 30s. Topics include utopia, propaganda, image-text relations. Protagonists include: photojournalists Lotte Jacobi, Margaret Bourke-White, Max Al'pert, Aleksandr Rodchenko, and Ella Maillart; photomonteur John Heartfield; documentary filmmaker Joris Ivens; writers Langston Hughes and Sergei Tret'iakov; and theorists Enzensberger, Benjamin, Barthes, and Derrida. 5 units, Spr (Gough, M)
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5.00 Credits
(Same as COMPLIT 238, ITALGEN 238.) From its foundation in 1909 through WW II, futurism developed into the first truly international cultural-political avant garde. Its aim was the revolutionary transformation of all spheres of life. The movement's manifestations in Italy, Russia, France, Spain, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. Topics: machines and culture; visual poetics and war; futurism's complex ties to bolshevism and fascism. Media: poetry, performance, music, painting, photography, radio, and film. Writers include: Marinetti, Mayakovsky. Visual artists include: Boccioni, Bragaglia, Russolo, Malevich, Lissitzky. 5 units, Win (Schnapp, J; Gough, M)
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5.00 Credits
The difference between place and space. Traditional notions of place by scale such as home, city, and nation state. Challenges to traditional notions of place such as: being out of place; nomadic place; and how architects can design for non-places. Reconceptualizations of contemporary space such as the role of digital and cyber technologies; how locality is constructed in a global world; the sense of place in the in-between places created by a world in flux. 5 units, not given this year
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5.00 Credits
(Same as URBANST 164.) Primarily for Urban Studies and Art majors. Utopian urbanist thinkers such as Ebenezer Howard, Le Corbusier, and Frank Lloyd Wright who established the conceptual groundwork of contemporary urban planning practice. Research paper. GER:DB-Hum 5 units, not given this year
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5.00 Credits
Primer for the comparative study of the representation of race in Western art. Whiteness, a construction that has been dependent upon blackness and alterity from its beginnings. Stereotyped ethnicities, nationalities, and territories, such as the Red Indian, the Jew, and Orientalism. Style as an image making strategy shaped by patronage and reception. 5 units, Spr (Staff)
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5.00 Credits
The construction of modern art historical discourses under a new national regime and within an international context; the role of public institutions and media such as museums, art academies, and art journals in forming a new public role for art and art collecting; and the cultural politics of art production. 5 units, not given this year
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