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3.00 Credits
Continuation of Arth 201. Connections: Conx 20025 The Math in Art and the Art of Math, Conx 23008 Italian Culture, Language and Society
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This course provides an introduction to the rich, diverse and inspiring world of African art. We will exmine the varied ways that African art has shaped and been shaped by the histories and cultural values of different African peoples, both in the past and during the present day. This course will strengthen the student's ability to critically assess the role of art in Africa for the people who produce and use it, and will provide an understanding of the role of African art in the West for the people who collect, exhibit, view and study it. Topics of study will include social, political, religious, philosophical, gendered and aesthetic practices. (Kim Miller) Connections: Conx 23001 African Worlds
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Development of the woodblock print within the popular visual culture of Japan during the Edo period (1615-1868). Examination of the technical, thematic and stylistic development of woodblock prints; the work of individual print designers and schools; and the role of prints as reflection of and stimulus for the "Floating World" of urban popularculture. We will begin with an introduction to the cultural context of Edo Japan and technical aspects of Japanese printmaking, followed by a roughly chronological survey of major developments, genres and designers/publishers. Exploration of issues such as censorship, collaborative artistic production, early modern print cultures, landscape and travel, and representations of gender, sexuality and social status. (Sean McPherson)
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This course surveys the development of Indian art from the Indus Valley civilization to the present, studied against the background of India's cultural history and religious faiths. Art and architecture of the Indian subcontinent and Sri Lanka, Buddhist, Hindu, Jain and Islamic. (Sean McPherson)
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3.00 Credits
The development of Islamic art throughout the Near East, Persia, Iran, North Africa and Spain. Special attention to architectural monuments and painting.
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3.00 Credits
Thematic, interdisciplinary exploration of selected art and architectural developments in China from Neolithic through modern times. Attention to issues relevant to study of material and visual culture, including the interpretation of meaning from objects and images; the relationship between archaeology and modern nationalism; cultural interconnections and the hybridity of "native" cultural traditions;social stratification in the production and reception of material culture; discourses of aesthetic cultural values; the interplay of literary, visual and material cultural production. (Sean McPherson)
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3.00 Credits
Survey of selected aspects of Japanese art and architecture from Neolithic through recent times. Particular attention to issues of gender, cultural identity and social status in the production and reception of art and architecture. Exploration of transnational and inter-cultural sources of Japanese visual culture. Our inclusive exploration of Japanese art and architecture will address fundamental questions about when, how and why particular images and monuments have come to be considered part of a canon of "great works" in the discipline ofJapanese art history. (Sean McPherson)
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3.00 Credits
Italian medieval art is very different from that of the rest of Europe because it clings to a classicism inherited from its Roman past, augmented by frequent borrowings from Byzantium. The course concentrates on the art of Italy from the time Constantine made Rome a "Christian" capital untilthe time of Giotto, with particular attention to the ecclesiastical and social structures peculiar to Italy that shaped its art in a distinct way. (Evelyn Staudinger Lane)
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the art of the early Renaissance in Italy, with special attention paid to Florence. Issues such as technique, style, iconography, patronage, historical context and art theory are discussed in detail. (Department)
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3.00 Credits
The effects of secular patronage on late Gothic painting in France and Flanders (Pucelle, the Limbourg brothers), followed by a thorough analysis of the realistic and mystical currents in northern culture and painting from Jan van Eyck to Hieronymus Bosch; a study of the spread of the Flemish style to Germany and France and the impact of humanism (Dürer, Grünewald, Brueghel).(Evelyn Staudinger Lane)
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