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3.00 Credits
Description: This course exposes students to contemporary artists who interrogate the concept of gender in multiple media including painting, photography, sculpture, video and performance. Prior knowledge of art history is helpful but not required.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This seminar investigates the origins and growth of pilgrimage in the Middle Ages. We'll explore the factors that motivated pilgrims to undertake such lengthy journeys, survey the variety of Romanesque monuments and sculptures pilgrims encountered along the way, and analyze the legendary stories about saints and miracles that circulated on the trail. Prerequisite: ARTH 175 or ARTH 342 or permission of instructor or MDST 300. Notes: Offered periodically.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This seminar examines life in the medieval city as it has been documented, studied, and imagined over time. Streets, daily life, guilds, governance, trade fairs, Gothic cathedrals, sculpture, painting, processions, hospitals, plagues, cemeteries, and revolts will be among the topics surveyed. Students will gain a deeper understanding of the impact that historical, social, political, and economic processes and events had on shaping the fabric of medieval cities and the experience of the urban environment. Prerequisite: ARTH 175 or ARTH 342 or MDST 300 or permission of instructor. Notes: Offered periodically.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This seminar examines life in the medieval city as it has been documented, studied, and imagined over time. Streets, daily life, guilds, governance, trade fairs, Gothic cathedrals, sculpture, painting, processions, hospitals, plagues, cemeteries, and revolts will be among the topics surveyed. Students will gain a deeper understanding of the impact that historical, social, political, and economic processes and events had on shaping the fabric of medieval cities and the experience of the urban environment. Prerequisite: ARTH 175 or ARTH 342 or MDST 300 or permission of instructor. Notes: Offered periodically.
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1.00 Credits
Description: Independent study, reading, and research in preparation for writing an honors thesis in art history. The course will assist students with the process of determining readers for their thesis committee, writing a proposal where they work towards specifying their research question and initial (hypo)thesis, and completing an annotated bibliography. Good Standing in the University Honors Program required. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor required. Notes: Offered periodically. This course must be taken no later than the semester prior to the writing of the Honors Thesis. Students cannot receive credit for both ARTH 449H and HONR 449H.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This course is intended as the culminating academic experience for art history majors in the University Honors Program. It will require the completion of an undergraduate thesis in art history. A grade of B or higher in ARTH 450H is required to count towards the completion of an Honors Program Degree. Prerequisite: ARTH 449H or HONR 449H strongly recommended; permission of instructor. Notes: Offered on request. Students cannot receive credit for both ARTH 450H and HONR 450H.
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3.00 Credits
Description: Consideration of the images of women portrayed through art. The impact of feminism on art, and contributions of women artists, designers, and architects to the history of art. Prerequisite: ARTH 176 or WMST 300 or permission of instructor. Notes: Offered in fall and spring.
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3.00 Credits
Description: An intensive writing course on the art, art theory and criticism in Europe and America from 1960 to the present. Notes: Intensive Writing Course. Offered every semester. Prerequisites: ARTH 175, 176, CRTW 201.
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3.00 Credits
Description: This seminar explores the social and political dimensions of art crime and cultural heritage. Art theft and issues such as repatriation, the destruction and looting of monuments and artifacts, fakes and forgeries, the politics of display, collecting practices, and the function(s) of the museum will be among the topics investigated. The course will examine art crimes such as the case of Nazi forces, in their quest to manipulate and control cultural heritage, stealing the so-called Lady in Gold portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Gustav Klimt from a Jewish family in 1941. The original owner's niece, inherited this portrait of her aunt in 2006 after a series of international legal battles in one of the most famous cases of justice and redemption involving works of art plundered during WWII. Prerequisite: HMXP 102 or HXCT 301 with C- or higher or permission of instructor. Previous coursework in art history or museum studies is suggested but not required. Notes: Offered periodically. No exams. Lab fee: $25
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3.00 Credits
Description: This seminar explores the social and political dimensions of art crime and cultural heritage. Art theft and issues such as repatriation, the destruction and looting of monuments and artifacts, fakes and forgeries, the politics of display, collecting practices, and the function(s) of the museum will be among the topics investigated. The course will examine art crimes such as the case of Nazi forces, in their quest to manipulate and control cultural heritage, stealing the so-called Lady in Gold portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Gustav Klimt from a Jewish family in 1941. The original owner's niece, inherited this portrait of her aunt in 2006 after a series of international legal battles in one of the most famous cases of justice and redemption involving works of art plundered during WWII. Prerequisite: HMXP 102 or HXCT 301 with C- or higher or permission of instructor. Previous coursework in art history or museum studies is suggested but not required. Notes: Offered periodically. No exams. Lab fee: $25.
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