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3.00 Credits
The historical context and critical analysis of exhibition theory and practices from curiosity cabinets to ethnological museums to postmodern spectacles with special attention to the development of the fine art museum as a distinctive site of visual display and consumption. Instructor: Abe
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A comparative study exploring the artists' contrasting responses to contemporary currents in art, philosophy and politics; examination of Goya and David as historiographical subjects; exploration and critique of biographical strategies in art history. Instructor: McWilliam
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Theories of nationalism, national identity and nationhood; cultural expression as a medium for nationalism; historical study of nationalist theories from Taine to the present day. Art history and national essentialism. National myths and the representation of heroes; the representation of the military; national enemies and subject peoples. National symbols and popular culture; the invention of national traditions; historicism and the visual construction of collective identities. Regionalism, folk art and the cult of the land; the representation of place in conceptions of nationhood. Nostalgia, from "Merrie England" to the Wild West. Nations covered include Britain, France, Germany & America. Instructor: McWilliam
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3.00 Credits
Problems and issues in a specific period or genre of Japanese Art. Specific focus varies from year to year. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Weisenfeld
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3.00 Credits
Seminar studies issues of primitivism in western culture, considering attitudes towards race and gender. Particular attention to the function of primitivism within modernist discourse<197>especially as regards such major figures as Gauguin, Matisse, and Picasso; and critical evaluations of the concept of primitivism in the fields of anthropology, literary criticism, cultural geography, and social history. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Leighten
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3.00 Credits
A seminar focusing on the development of modernism in England, from the creation of a British fauvist movement in 1910 to the advent of vorticism during World War I. Topics include Roger Fry and the Omega Workshops, J. D. Fergusson and the British fauvists, the vorticism of Wyndham Lewis, Jacob Epstein and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, and the criticism of vorticists T. E. Hulme and Ezra Pound. These movements studied in the light of political ideology, literary theory, and gender studies. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Antliff
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3.00 Credits
Seminar studies the cubist movement in pre-World War I Paris, considering art theory and production within the matrix of cultural politics and current critical debates in the field. Focus on significant figures including Georges Braque, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Albert Gleizes, Juan Gris, Marie Laurenein, Henri Le Fauconnier, Fernand L<138>ger, Jean Metzinger, Pablo Picasso, and others. Consent of instructor required. Instructor: Antliff or Leighten
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3.00 Credits
Examination of the major courts of Europe in France, England, Germany, and Italy to study the development of court culture and the relationships and exchanges between the different courts through marriage alliances, exchanges of presents, and shifts in taste and style. Focus on the courts of Louis IX in France, Henry III and Edward II in England, and the court of Naples from 1266 onwards. Topics include patterns of spirituality, family relationships, and the role of women and books. Instructor: Bruzelius
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3.00 Credits
Approaches the major exhibition of contemporary French painting and sculpture from multiple perspectives, highlighting involvement of successive political regimes in regulating the artistic economy. Analysis of artists' relationship with-and attempts to modify-the Salon structure, the emergence of alternative exhibiting venues, and the growth of the commercial art market. Particular emphasis on contemporary critical responses to artworks, viewed in the light of wider changes in journalism and the literary market place. Crucial texts and controversies over particular works will be examined in depth. The implications of reception theory for art history will be explored. Instructor: McWilliam
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3.00 Credits
Seminar assesses the contribution of Jerusalem's buildings to its contentiousness from Biblical to modern times. Particular sites (Me'a She'rim, the Dome of the Rock, the Holy Sepulchre, the Kotel or Wailing Wall, the souk, the Israeli Supreme Court, the Museum of the Seam, the Fence, etc.) considered in the context of the urban history of the city from the time of Jesus through Arab, Crusader, Turkish and British rule to contemporary Israeli control. How these places act upon the religious imagination and how they affect the ideological positions of their users (and their abusers) discussed on the basis of photographs, archaeological reports, news reports, novels, sacred texts and diaries. Instructor: Wharton
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