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Background examination of the Bauhaus through Corporate International Style as a background to the Postmodern core of the course. Later Wright and LeCorbusier, Gehry, Graves, Eisenman, Disney Imaginers among the architects and designers considered. Political, ideological, aesthetic, and technical aspects of building investigated through primary texts. Not open to students who have taken ARTHIST 189. Instructor: Wharton
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Development of urban Berlin from the Grunderzeit (the Boom Years) of the 1870s to the present: architecture of Imperial Berlin; the Weimar and Nazi periods; post World War II; reconstruction as a reunified city. The major architectural movements from late historicism to postmodernism. (Taught only in the Duke-in-Berlin Program.) Instructor: Neckenig
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Introduction to the visual arts of Germany from the fifteenth to the twentieth century through lectures conducted in Berlin's museums and cultural institutions. German Old Masters, German Romantic and Realist artists, Modernist art movements, such as Expressionism and New Objectivity, considered in relation to upheavals in modern German history. Taught in English in the Duke-in-Berlin summer program. Instructor: Staff
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Individual research in a field of special interest under the supervision of a faculty member, the central goal of which is a substantive paper or written report containing significant analysis and interpretation of a previously approved topic. Open to qualified students in the junior year, by consent of instructor and director of undergraduate studies. Instructor: Staff
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Directed reading in a field of special interest, under the supervision of a faculty member, resulting in a substantive paper or report. Open to qualified students in the junior year, by consent of instructor and director of undergraduate studies. Instructor: Staff
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Painting and sculpture in Britain from Hogarth to the Pre-Raphaelites; developments in narrative painting, portraiture and history painting; funerary sculpture and the emergence of the public movement; the role of institutions and art collectors; writing on art from Hogarth and Reynolds to Hazlitt and Ruskin. Instructor: McWilliam
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A thematic history of painting in France from Classicism to Realism; the impact of revolution and social change on visual art; the academy and artistic training and exhibition; romanticism and changing conceptions of creativity and artistic individuality; the crisis in history painting and the new appeal of landscape; critics and collectors. Instructor: McWilliam
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Development of Cubism from its origins in Paris in 1907 to the movement's decline in the 1920's. Cubist aesthetics is contextualized in light of the cultural politics of the period. Topics may include tradition, primitivism, and anti-colonialism, anarchism and politics, approaches to collage, contemporary philosophy and science, and the role of gender in Cubist aesthetics. Instructor: Antliff or Leighten
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Major artists and movements in the history of the photographic medium, including visual and critical traditions inherited and manipulated by photographers, the ways photography participated in nineteenth- and twentieth-century art movements as well as documentation and social change, and critical photographic discourse throughout this period. Topics include the invention of photography, 'Art' photography and documentary photography in the nineteenth century, pictorialism, 'straight' and purist photography, photography and modernist art movements (dada, surrealism, Bauhaus, Russian avant-garde), twentieth-century documentary, and photography of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Instructor: Leighten
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Credit for Advanced Placement on the basis of the College Board examination in art history. Does not count toward the major in art history or design
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