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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course traces the study of American consumer culture beginning with historical perspectives on societies of mass culture. We will survey consumption in theory and in practice throughout the twentieth century and then turn to consumer culture in the new millennium. In exploring theories of representation and the politics of taste and class, we will engage the central topics and themes surrounding advertising and promotional culture, consumerism and lifestyle, as well as built environments such as shopping malls. This course focuses on aesthetics, identity politics, and consumption as a signifying practice. May be elected as Rhetoric and Film Studies 380 B.
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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 This course examines how concepts of masculinity and femininity are produced and defined visually. We will examine how artists of the late 20th century developed new techniques (installations, performance, video, etc.) to examine how gender mediates modern identities (class and race); ideals of nationhood; key spaces such as the museum and the domestic interior; and the cultural politics associated with the body, sexuality, and the self. Distribution area: fine arts or alternative voices.
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4.00 Credits
not offered 2008-09 The painting, prints, sculpture, architecture, design, popular illustration, photography, and film of German Europe during a period which witnessed the establishment of an Empire, a lost World War, a failed revolution, a failed economy, a failed democracy, and the establishment of another Empire. Emphasis is placed on the art theory and the artists' status within this rapidly transforming political spectrum. Two exams, several short papers and class participation are required. Prerequisite: Art History 103 or consent of instructor. Offered in alternate years.
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4.00 Credits
Special studies not generally considered in other courses offered by the department. The specific material will vary from semester to semester and may cover various subjects from early times to contemporary developments in art.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course explores issues of gender in popular forms of visual culture. You will learn to apply critical methods in order to understand how gendered images are constructed and strategically used. We will draw from a variety of visual contexts including online and in print culture such as magazines, comic books, and graphic novels. In analyzing concepts of femininity and masculinity, we will examine how popular culture reflects, creates, and contests our understandings of gender and sexuality. From a critical standpoint, this kind of analysis also includes issues of power, identity, and representation in the visual field. May be elected as Rhetoric and Film Studies 380A.
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3.00 Credits
This course will study the emergence of Los Angeles as a center for cultural production since 1945. It will assess the relationship between urban space and the visual arts-including painting, photography, architecture, film and video. And it will investigate the role of representation in shaping the social topography of the city. This course will ultimately seek to answer a series of questions: How has Los Angeles established itself as one of the most important global art centers How do the city's history and landscape create the conditions for certain artistic movements and styles And how do Los Angeles's ethnically and economically diverse communities use the arts to address issues of social justice and marginalit y Prerequisit e: ArtH 103 or consent of the instructor
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3.00 Credits
Staff Projects for the advanced student in art history under supervision of the particular teacher concerned. Prerequisites for art history projects: ArtH 103 and a 200-level art history course in the area of the project. Consent of the supervising instructor.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Staff Weekly discussions and critical papers based on: 1) selected primary and secondary readings in the history of western art theory (ancient, medieval, renaissance, the academy); 2) primary and secondary readings in the methodology of modern art history; and 3) primary readings in contemporary approaches to art. Emphasis will be placed on the role of the art theorist/historian in the history of art. Required for the major.
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4.00 Credits
Staff Open only to senior art history majors except those registered for Art History 498. Taken during the spring (or final) semester of the senior year. Devoted to the completion of a substantial written project under the supervision of at least one faculty member.
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4.00 Credits
Staff Designed to further independent investigation leading to the preparation of a written thesis or research project in art history. Taken during the spring (or final) semester of the senior year. Required of and limited to senior honors candidates in art history and visual culture studies.
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